Evidence of meeting #40 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was disease.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East, BC
That's really useful for us to know. As a layperson, I guess I feel surprised. You often think that these things are being done, that globally there is already this collaboration and you have these conferences.
The fact that we're having to do all this work to even get to a point of developing an effective Canadian strategy and practice, it's kind of surprising. I don't know. That's just my impression based on what you've said today.
Director, McGill Parkinson Program and National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University; Parkinson Society Canada
I think you're absolutely right that these things are done, but not systematically. They're done and people in their fields know about things, but what's really remarkable here is that it's being done very systematically.
NDP
Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East, BC
Do you then expect the knowledge base to jump 25% or some huge amount? Is there an enormous—
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Our time is up, Ms. Davies.
Can someone just quickly answer her question?
President and Chief Executive Officer, Parkinson Society Canada
Yes, there's a knowledge translation and transfer plan in place, and that will happen.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Okay.
We want to thank you very much. As you know, in the health committee we get your enthusiasm for this particular topic, and that's really good.
I was very happy to hear that Canada is on the cutting edge and really moving forward on this issue. I'm very pleased that this study is going on and that we will have some very hard, concrete, scientific data in the end.
Thank you so much for joining us.
The meeting is adjourned.