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Health committee We do have people. Let me just make a general comment. The more we can invest in public health generally, the better off as a population we will be, but it's up to society to decide the relative proportions.
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee No, we will not have that structure; it'll be like a department.
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee Public Safety coordinates overall government emergency preparedness.
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee I won't go there, in terms of the debate about the amount or other aspects that I can't go into, but what I can go into, quite clearly, is that Health Canada and the first nations and Inuit health branch, which has responsibility on reserves, work very closely with them. We bring
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee Well, I would not say there are no resources, because we have people—
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee I think that's a reasonable reflection. There are my federal accountabilities as a deputy within the federal system as well as a chief adviser on public health issues for the federal government, but also there are linkages through the public health network, which again is a colla
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee It relates to the provincial authorities and accountabilities. We also have federal accountabilities around the Quarantine Act, borders, and issues that we have in terms of our own populations that we deal with, which are different in that way.
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee I'm an adopted prairie boy, for sure. Thank you very much for the questions. It's a good list. First, in terms of relationships with other departments and deputies, there are the deputy-level relations I have on the committee that's specific to pandemics. But I also sit on othe
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee We already have offices in the regions. In Quebec, through our collaboration with the Institut national de santé du Québec, we have national resources within the institute. We work in partnership with and support the activities of the institute.
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee There are ongoing reports that come from the Public Health Agency, usually of a technical nature, that support best practices and advice on how we manage different issues in both infectious and chronic disease, etc. That's an ongoing thing. For example, the Public Health Agency s
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee We're coming back at some point to talk about the issues. There is a framework that has been developed for that, and I know people are working on how we move it forward. Whether a Chief Public Health Officer report would be the piece needed in addition or as part of...is still op
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee Probably one way to speak to that is to say we'll work together the way we're working now. While we're a separate entity currently--separate authorities, my accountabilities, budget authorities, etc.--we work very closely. We're part of the same health portfolio. Both the deputy
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee Preparedness measures to fight a pandemic and other illnesses involve collaboration between the provinces, the territories and the federal government. Decisions are taken jointly, specifically regarding the various areas of jurisdiction of each level of government. Regarding pill
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee The legal basis for reporting generally, I guess, is because it's a local activity and it is reporting to the local medical officer who then reports to the province. There are a number of diseases that provinces then report to us--not nominally, not with names--so we can track th
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones
Health committee Also, the practical thing is that they're dealt with locally. But then we have systems in place to track, nationally and internationally, patterns of disease so that we can actually go back and see that there might be five cases in Vancouver and three in Saskatoon and four in Tor
May 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. David Butler-Jones