Health Committee on Oct. 21st, 2009

Evidence of meeting #38 for Health in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was vaccine.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

H1N1 Preparedness and Response
Briefing on Sodium Consumption in the Canadian Diet

MPs speaking

Joy Smith
Keith Martin
Frank Valeriote
Luc Malo
Judy Wasylycia-Leis
Colin Carrie
Cathy McLeod
Nicolas Dufour
Kirsty Duncan
Patrick Brown
Tim Uppal

Also speaking

Hasan Hutchinson  Director General, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Department of Health
Samuel Godefroy  Director General, Food Directorate, Department of Health
Kim Elmslie  Director General, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada
Danielle Grondin  Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Infectious Disease and Emergency Preparedness Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada
Elaine Chatigny  Director General, Communications, Public Health Agency of Canada
Paul Gully  Senior Medical Advisor, Department of Health

5:25 p.m.

Director General, Communications, Public Health Agency of Canada

Elaine Chatigny

We're definitely seeing it in Toronto and in Vancouver. There is a big effort on the part of our provincial colleagues to reach out to their communities and to work with the municipalities and local medical officers of health to get information out in a more pertinent and grassroots way than we could federally.

5:25 p.m.

Senior Medical Advisor, Department of Health

Dr. Paul Gully

If I could just add to that, Madam Chair, I think that in first nations communities, for example, often one would want community leaders and others in the community to maybe translate, promote, explain, and be available to explain in another language. Often there are very different ways of explaining and understanding and enabling people to ask questions in another language. It is clearly something that cannot be done federally. It has to be done locally.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joy Smith

I want to thank you very much for coming. We really appreciate these updates. I know that we will see you again very soon.

I want to thank you, and I want to thank the committee.

The bells are about to ring, so the committee is dismissed.