Health committee  Yes, we'll do that.

Health committee  We could rewrite the British North America Act, but that would be historical. In New Zealand and Australia, they source to other places where we cannot go. For England, again, I'm not sure. We need some dialogue at a level higher than I am to find out exactly how they have mana

Health committee  I would have to know which drug that was. I'm sorry. I don't know. Would you know which drug it is?

Health committee  Rocuronium is a short-acting, non-depolarizing muscle relaxant. If you needed to have your appendix out, we'd need to relax the muscles in your abdomen for a short period of time for the surgeon to remove the appendix. It makes the surgery easier. It has been in short supply in

Health committee  As you mentioned, there are two online resources. When I go to those, in fact, I don't find enough about the ones I use. There are some industry links there, where Canadian pharma generic manufacturers list the drugs that are in short supply. I didn't see, as you alluded to, al

Health committee  I have talked to colleagues in anesthesiology from Britain, Australia, New Zealand—some of them are a little outside of the G-7, I realize. They do not have the problems we have or our American colleagues seem to have had. They smiled and said they had a little bit of a blip two

Health committee  That appears to be the case, yes.

Health committee  I believe Australia has a series of states. I'm not exactly sure how their health system is set up, but they too have not had a problem.

Health committee  When I wrote to Minister Aglukkaq in January I did receive a response to our letter in March. We didn't say in our brief that she did not reply. In fact we give credit to the initiative she has started, but unfortunately, despite that, where we are today with drug shortages is fa

Health committee  To be very short, I would echo what Dr. Haggie has said. I agree with what he said. I just have one thing I would add. You mentioned New Zealand. One of the things in New Zealand is that they have an agency that covers the entire country, which is not the way it is in Canada bec

Health committee  Thank you very much.

Health committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair, members of the committee, on behalf of the 1,900 members of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society who are practising anesthesia in Canada, I would like to thank you for this opportunity to participate in these hearings about the role that gove