Health committee  The agency is not yet established and functional, but if you look at other countries that went through a similar process and have an agency, such as the HFEA.... If people go to their website they will start to learn that there's an agency responsible for those issues. I could se

Health committee  It's another avenue that will be looked at and could possibly be done: pamphlets that could be dropped in different places where those individuals might be seeking the information.

Health committee  Where there are examples you can look at.

Health committee  Basically, in terms of consultation, as I said, certainly there was a consultation period after they were tabled in the Canada Gazette, part I. But also, prior to that, we had a consultation document that was distributed to more than 500 people. It's even available on the Health

Health committee  Consultations started in November 2004. And in September 2005, they were again published. So it's been ongoing, I would say.

Health committee  Yes, to bring the last prohibition.... That will ensure the uniformity that you raised and make sure everything is very clear and that there is what is required to respect the reproductive autonomy of every individual.

Health committee  I would agree, yes.

Health committee  If I may add, the regulation is very clear that the person who is liable is basically the person who is making use of, say, the gametes, and that person will have to ensure that the other person who signed a consent was informed of everything he needs to be informed of. Basically

Health committee  Once the regulations are in force, everybody will have to abide by them.

Health committee  Maybe I'll answer the first question and I'll leave the others to Hélène. With regard to fresh and frozen, yes, that subject was raised a bit earlier. What we've said is that the legislation doesn't make a distinction between the two. Basically, if you want to use an in vitro e

Health committee  Yes, in different languages—

Health committee  That's a responsibility we leave to the agency. It's difficult for us to speak on behalf of the agency. I think their mandate is, similarly, to make information available, and also to try to provide information about prevention, I guess. But I cannot speak for them. I'm sure they

Health committee  The penalties are already defined in the legislation in section 60. It says if you're in contravention of any of the sections 5 to 9, which are the prohibitions, which is what we're talking about here, a person: (a) is liable, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceedi

Health committee  No, that's what the text says.

Health committee  Section 8 details the information somebody needs to provide to a person before the person can give consent. If you miss something there, if you don't have one of the components, you could be in contravention of section 8. You also need to make sure that the person will consent a