Carolyn Bennett on An Act to permit the resumption and continuation of the operation of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk River

In the House of Commons on December 11th, 2007. See this statement in context.

An Act to permit the resumption and continuation of the operation of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk RiverGovernment Orders

December 11th, 2007 / 9:45 p.m.

Liberal

Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON

Mr. Chair, I want to talk about the patients who are waiting. I want to know what the minister's assessment of that will be. The Canadian Society of Nuclear Medicine says that 50,000 Canadians' treatment is delayed a month and the CMA says it is 30,000 a week.

I would like to know whether the minister has an assessment. Seeing that these coming weeks tend to be the weeks when hospitals do not do surgeries and tests, what would be his assessment for the weeks of December 17, 24 and 31? Would he be able to provide the provinces and territories with extra funds to run overtime to get rid of the backlog of patients who have been waiting too long?

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