Health committee  For me, I will still wait to see what comes in the regulations on what comments we have made. Obviously if it's not in the bill, it comes in the regulations. I can't say yea or nay because we have not seen the regulations, so I can't make any comment on that.

Health committee  Thank you, honourable member. That's a great question. Obviously now I am the inspector. I have a biosafety officer who goes and inspects labs. If she has any problems, I go to inspect the lab. No one comes to check my work to see if I have done it right or wrong. From a person

Health committee  Thank you, honourable members. I always watch Dr. Bennett. It is an honour to see you.

Health committee  I strongly believe, personally and as an institution, and even agree that as an institution we told Public Health Agency of Canada that they're more than welcome to give us a blanket licence for risk group two. We will tell you what we have, where we have it, and what we do with

Health committee  We were hoping that it will be in the bill when the next readings will come, in black and white, that these exclusions or these modifications have been changed. That was the understanding I was on, that it will come.

Health committee  With Health Canada, yes.

Health committee  I will go back to my initial comment, and I said I 100% respect the bill and like the bill if two provisions aren't made. One is security. One is licensing. So those two are handled. We do not report to provincial legislators or provincial enforcers, namely the minister of labo

Health committee  It's completely to the contrary. I'm not the security officer. My background is molecular biology, so I relate to the science part more than anything else. If you are the only scientist, you've got to talk the talk and walk the walk, so--

Health committee  I'm not responsible for production, but my background is science, and I look at it as that I have to understand the science part and I have to understand the regulation part and enforcement. I'm not the research for that, so I don't do bench work myself, no.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  If security is lifted, and if the operation of licensing would be adopted like the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission does, I can confidently say that we don't have to do anything different at the University of Toronto. Everything should run that way, and it should have been that

Health committee  Honourable member, again, I go back to the comment I made. I said that I will live with this bill if the security clearance has been lifted for risk group two organisms. I addressed that concern earlier.

Health committee  Actually, there is an example, if I could come in here. There was a teaching hospital that had a fire. The lab had a biohazard sign on it. The firefighter didn't enter. Four million dollars later, when they got the PI, they entered the lab. There is a consequence of putting a lev

Health committee  That would deal with the clinical side. Unfortunately, my side of the clinical area is only dentistry, and I don't deal with the other side, so I can't make any comment on it. I do not have the expertise.

Health committee  A part of my job that I like is the fact that “it depends”. That's one typical answer I give to individuals. The strain of E. coli is one factor; the health status of the individual is another factor; the dose the individual gets is another factor. So there are lots of combinatio