Health Committee on Feb. 19th, 2020

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

This may or may not take up two hours of the next meeting, and there are other things to deal with it, but it has also been suggested that we might want to invite the minister to speak to the estimates for some portion of that meeting.

How about we do this? We continue committee business on Monday to finish with Monsieur Thériault's motion and any other motions that we need to come forward with, and possibly consider inviting the minister for Wednesday for a briefing on the estimates.

I would also point out that Mr. Davies has put forward a number of motions regarding the resubmission of reports from the previous Parliament, and it has been suggested to me that some people would like to read those reports before they vote on them. It would be nice to be able to deal with those motions next week in our committee business, so I would ask everyone who has not read these wonderful reports to do so, so they can vote on whether or not to resubmit them.

These are reports that the government did not give its response to because of timing and so forth, so it would basically ask the government to renew that commitment.

[Len Webber, Conservative, Calgary Confederation, AB]

Mr. Chair, it's not only the reports that we have not received any government response on, but we did a number of studies in the last parliamentary session. You were there along with Ms. Sidhu and Don Davies regarding, for example, a study on Lyme disease, where we did get a response from the government. Now, I would like to see, first of all, all of you read the study on Lyme and what was discussed here, but also I'd like to get an update from the government on Lyme disease and to see where we are with the recommendations that were in that report. There are a number of reports that we come up with, and that we will be doing in this term as well, that basically are sent to the government and we don't hear anything—nothing, no response or any action on the recommendations that we put forward.

I would like to see an update in particular on the Lyme disease report. I encourage my colleagues here to read that report as well and to read what the government has responded on that, but let's get an update with where they are with respect to the recommendations on that report, and all reports that we put forward.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Let me suggest that we bring that up as an item of business at the next meeting.

[Len Webber, Conservative, Calgary Confederation, AB]

I was just encouraging my colleagues to read that report, because I will bring it up.

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Is there anything else?

[Some hon. members]

No.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

In that case we are adjourned.