Mr. Speaker, as a matter of fact, the hon. member's questions derive in large part from the Canadian Medical Association Journal . Today the editor of that journal, Dr. John Hoey, was quoted as saying:
Health Canada...does a remarkable job in getting warnings out. In fact Health Canada issued warnings, or had some data on this particular drug perhaps even in advance of the FDA in the U.S.
He went on to say:
In the past couple of days what we've done has been a little bit misinterpreted as a criticism of Health Canada, which it isn't.