Health committee  No, I wasn't.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to add a comment. May I do it in English, to be clearer? There are some activities related to pharmaceutical review in the SPP. The idea there is to share best practices and ensure that the three systems learn from each other so the review bei

Health committee  As a general comment, Mr. Chairman, the SPP isn't normally a place where people show up and say they have a different regulation from what we have, that we should sit down and come up with a common one. It's more about looking at doing this, understanding we're looking at doing t

Health committee  I could answer at a very general level. With respect to the specific issue under discussion here today, I would think Dr. Butler-Jones would be better placed to explain to you whatever impact that may have on Canada-U.S. relations, but maybe I could chip in at the end.

Health committee  If I may, I apologize for the architecture of the SPP. The food and agriculture working group is actually the food and agricultural regulatory group. They shortened it. It's comprised solely of people from CFIA and Health Canada. Even if it says food and agriculture, the work is

Health committee  There are, yes.

Health committee  I guess in terms of consulting with Canadians, focusing on the health part, Health Canada and CFIA, in developing their set of initiatives, consulted extensively with their normal stakeholder community. They asked that stakeholder community what their issues were with the United

Health committee  From a very general level across the piece, I would say no. It's to get rid of differences that don't make a difference. It explicitly recognizes that there will be differences. Simply in the area of plant health, for example, Canada has a different climate, and we will always ha

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Starting between Canada and the United States, the two leaders of Canada and the United States in 2002 made a decision.

Health committee  And in 2005 that decision was reconfirmed and expanded by the two original leaders to include another leader.

Health committee  All I'm saying is that's the top-down part, but in making that decision they essentially said they needed to have a program of activities to advance the prosperity and security and quality of life, and they turned to their varied bureaucracies and asked them to develop that progr

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Paul Haddow and I am the Executive Director of the International Affairs Division of the Department of Public Safety of Canada. We understand that at a previous meeting of the committee certain