Health committee  I would say more is always better, but I think an investment of an additional $5 million a year for at least five to seven years would be the minimum.

Health committee  Absolutely, but I don't know if you have thought about how to best do that, because there are a number of different venues for stimulating that kind of activity.

Health committee  Just very briefly, I'm really excited about your question of what we can do to better understand the etiology of Parkinson's treatment and progression. We're currently just about to start a two-year study, which will be led by one of my doctoral students. We're going to look at P

Health committee  Thank you. I am happy to have this opportunity to present our research on the causes of neurological diseases. What I'm going to talk about for the next ten minutes is our work in the area of what causes neurological disease in general. I'll refer to the slides I have, of which

Industry committee  That technology is newer than when we actually initiated the study back in 1997.

Industry committee  It's www.rfcom.ca.

Industry committee  As we've moved to smaller and smaller phones, the general trend has been less power output, particularly with the switch from analog to digital. I would think the concerns would be lessening with the level of exposure decreasing from the hand-held mobile devices over time. We c

Industry committee  It focuses exclusively on mobile phones, analog and digital, the difference being the power output of those two types of phones. And I believe we are collecting information in the questionnaire about cordless phones, although the exposures there are of much, much less concern tha

Industry committee  Could I ask if the intent of the question is why is the WHO undertaking such a massive investigation when most of the evidence is pointing to no risk?

Industry committee  There are several reasons for pursuing that investigation. One is the existing scientific literature. Science is not absolutely certain on all aspects of research, and there are some uncertainties. I mentioned that there were some biological effects that require clarification.

Industry committee  In terms of the health effects that we looked at, let me focus first on the WHO so-called interphone study, because that's very focused. We're looking at four types of lesions, two types of brain cancer—meningioma, glioma. We're also looking at acoustic neuroma, which is a tumour

Industry committee  We are a fairly large research centre. There are over 100 full-time investigators in the Institute of Population Health, which was started by the university just about six years ago, so it's quite a success story to grow to that level. In my program, which focuses on risks to he

Industry committee  It was actually the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization. Canada is one of 16 member countries that support IARC. I had the pleasure of serving on the scientific council for four years, representing Canada between 1992 and 19

Industry committee  We've witnessed an explosion in the use of wireless devices, from about 100,000 in Canada in 1986 to over 17 million today. If you look at some European countries, the market penetration is over 100%, which means that some people own more than one cellular phone, and on average e

Industry committee  We've been focusing our work primarily on wireless telecommunications. If I understood the previous discussion, you're looking more at fibre optics and other forms of transmission.