Health Committee on Jan. 31st, 2012

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

So it is within the scope of the bill?

[Mike MacPherson]

It's admissible.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Can we go to the vote now? It will be a recorded vote.

(Amendment negatived: nays 7; yeas 4)

We'll now go to--

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Madam Chair, I have one further amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Ms. Davies, you have yet another amendment?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

What do you mean, “yet another”? It's two amendments--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

I'm just wondering where it's written down.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

It's written down here.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

I haven't seen it.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Well, I'm going to give it to you as soon as I read it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

I don't know where it's supposed to go. We have to put them in--

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

I'll tell you--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Well, no. The clerk will tell me where it's supposed to go. Has the clerk seen it? I'm asking because I have to place it in wherever..... These fit in here, and I want to make sure that your amendment is in the right place.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

This amendment, Madam Chair, would create a new paragraph 2(d). We just defeated one amendment on paragraph 2(d), so I'm submitting a new amendment that would create a new paragraph 2(d). I'll read it to you and then give it to you. I'm well aware that you have to do it in sequence. That's why I interrupted earlier--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

I want to make sure it's in the right place.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

--before we passed that line.

I'm sure this amendment is within the scope of the bill. Again, it's to get at this issue that we really need to address, that it's not just about information and awareness, but that we need to try to ensure there is follow-up. The new paragraph 2(d) would read,

...and including the need for more systematic follow-up procedures for women with heterogeneous or dense breast tissue.

I'll hand this over to the chair to take a look.

Again, the reason it was not submitted in writing earlier is that it is based on the testimony we heard today.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Okay. Thank you.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

I think it would help to just flag that issue of the need for follow-up.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Would you mind sharing that with the whole committee? Because everyone is wondering....

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

You mean it doesn't work grammatically? Can we just say--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

We're just dealing with a grammar issue.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

We would just take out the word “and”, and start with the word “including”, so it would be correct grammatically.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Take out the word “and”. Okay.

Is there anybody else?

Dr. Carrie.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

Thank you very much, Madame Chair.

I think it's important that we all keep perspective here. We would all like to fix the system as well as we can, but any follow-up would be within the provincial jurisdiction. Actually, this could possibly infringe on the practice of medicine regarding the appropriate follow-up, so I would not be supporting this.