Health Committee on Feb. 1st, 2021

Evidence of meeting #16 for Health in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was vaccines.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Emergency Situation Facing Canadians in Light of the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Amir Attaran Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

Isaac Bogoch Physician and Scientist, Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto, As an Individual

Marc-André Gagnon Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, As an Individual

Paul Merriman Minister of Health, Government of Saskatchewan

Joel Lexchin Medical Doctor, As an Individual

Ian Culbert Executive Director, Canadian Public Health Association

Timothy Evans Executive Director, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force

Nathalie Landry Executive Vice President, Scientific and Medical Affairs, Medicago Inc.

1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ron McKinnon

Thank you.

I should point out that the clerk makes extraordinary effort to get people headsets and so forth, and to go through technical stuff. That's why he needs several days' notice.

As for the Minister of Health from Saskatchewan, for example, we only knew he was going to be able to make the meeting 10 minutes before the meeting started. There was no opportunity to get him the headset and make sure it was available.

I would certainly encourage everyone to get their witnesses together on any given meeting very soon so the clerk has ample time to locate them, to communicate with them, and make sure they have the headsets and so forth.

The House of Commons is ready, willing and able to send out headsets to everybody, but they just need time to do that.

I think we're running out of time here.

Mr. Van Bynen, you have your hand up.

1:45 p.m.

Liberal

Tony Van Bynen Liberal Newmarket—Aurora, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

The point that you've raised is a point that I wanted to raise as well. We need to make sure that all this equipment is in everybody's hands and so we need adequate notice.

I think this may require some further discussion, further consideration, so I would move that we adjourn debate to the next meeting.

1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ron McKinnon

Once again, we have an adjournment to a date certain. This would be an adjournment until after the ministers' meeting on Friday.

There is no debate on this. I will ask the clerk to conduct the vote.

(Motion agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)

Thank you, Mr. Clerk.

This debate is adjourned until after the ministers' appearances on Friday.

That concludes our business. It was a good meeting. There were interesting discussions.

We'll see you on Friday.

Thanks, everybody.