Is there discussion on the motion?
Mr. Fletcher.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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Conservative
Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB
I have no problem with the amendment. There are just a couple of things with the wording.
Dr. Wells is no longer the chairperson because his work is complete. He was the former chair. We would have to ask him to come on a voluntary basis because he doesn't work for Health Canada.
The study, or what was referred to as the study, by Diana Zuckerman is more of an opinion piece than a study. That may be just a translation issue.
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The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield
The chair of the former panel or the former panel chair--it's the same sort of thing. I think the intent is there.
Conservative
Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB
That was an opinion piece, not a scientific study.
Bloc
Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC
Mr. Chairman, Ms. Zuckerman has a
PhD, post-doctoral training in epidemiology from Yale's medical school. She was a faculty member at Vassar and Yale, a researcher at Harvard, a congressional staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and a senior policy adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. I think she's a witness we can believe.
Conservative
Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB
Oh yes, I didn't suggest that. I suggested it was not a scientific study.
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The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield
Excuse me, Mr. Fletcher, if you would address the chair, we can coordinate things. But if we have people starting to talk all over, we're going to have trouble here. That's got to be the way it's done at this committee.
We have the motion amended as 3 and 4 together. I think we have the full intent: it's Health Canada, Dr. George Wells, and Diana Zuckerman to testify before committee, which flows into what we are going to do as far as testimony before this committee.
I'm going to call the question. Are we all in favour?
(Motion as amended agreed to)
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