Mr. Speaker, the health minister has appointed a Pfizer VP to the Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Having Dr. Bernard Prigent sit on the council is extremely alarming and should never have happened in the first place.
Having drug companies advise the government is like having the big bad wolf advising the three little pigs on how to build their homes.
Does the health minister have the common sense to see this as a huge conflict of interest and reverse the appointment?