Health Committee on Dec. 8th, 2016

Evidence of meeting #36 for Health in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was donors.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Opioid Crisis in Canada
Current Blood Donation Restrictions on Men Who Have Sex with Men
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Bill Casey
Doug Eyolfson
Len Webber
Don Davies
Sonia Sidhu
Colin Carrie
Darshan Singh Kang
Rachael Thomas
John Oliver

Also speaking

Gary Lacasse  Executive Director, Canadian AIDS Society
Graham Sher  Chief Executive Officer, Head Office, Canadian Blood Services
Dana Devine  Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Head Office, Canadian Blood Services
Catherine Parker  Director General, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Department of Health

10:15 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bill Casey

All right. Thanks very much.

Again, thanks very much for your presentations. It gives us a great foundation on which to move forward. Thanks to all of you for your attendance.

Thanks to the committee for the good questions and participation.

We're going to have a five-minute break. Then we have some committee business to discuss.

[Proceedings continue in camera]