Health committee  For us there's always a choice in terms of recommending what would go into legislation and what would go into the regulation, but as I was saying the last time I was before the committee, it's very complex, and members and witnesses are rightly saying you need to work with stakeh

Health committee  If I could add to that in terms of specific questions, when we got out there with the legislation there were a lot of questions. The act itself is the shell, and the real details that are of concern to researchers and administrators of the universities are in the regulations and

Health committee  First of all, it is viewed as an important security and safety issue. It's a gap in the country, and we recommend that Parliament address that. On the consultations, there's been dialogue and there were information sessions before the bill was introduced. But I would agree with

Health committee  Thank you for that. In moving forward, some of the guarantees you're looking at are that we're all working within public health, and we're all working in the areas of looking at protecting public health and public safety. Part of that is to ensure that pathogens are dealt with s

Health committee  Thank you for that question. This has been an ongoing dialogue we've had with stakeholders. I think the more we learn from stakeholders, the better and richer our regulatory and program regime will be. It's highly complex in terms of dealing with and regulating a scientific envi

Health committee  In terms of consultations with the provinces and territories, actually we would not look at provinces and territories as other stakeholders. However, we've done broad consultations where people...scientists who would work in provincial labs or university labs would be welcome to