Mr. Thériault and members of the committee, thank you for your invitation.
My name is Julie Elliott, and my health has been negatively affected by breast implants.
However, my story is not important because it's the same as that of thousands of other women. We can grasp the extent of the community of women negatively affected by breast implants on social media. There are more than 250 support groups worldwide, with over 350,000 members identifying as having breast implant illness or potentially having cancer caused by implants.
The Quebec support group for these women was founded following the episode about the dangers of breast implants on the French-language CBC program Enquête. Overnight, it became a primary source of information...