Health committee  Mr. Lamoureux, you left out the consumer when you made your list of all those who should be thinking outside the box. If the consumers' rights associations, which are closest to the coal face, don't also get involved in the conversation, I'm afraid it's going to be very top-down

Health committee  Ms. O'Neill-Gordon, you know that municipalities should be encouraged to look at healthy truck foods too. I saw one in New York called The Rolling Stove. It had very good ethnic foods. It had chapatis and chana, or chick peas. It had woks for stir-fried food. Why can't we have th

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think research is a very good thing, but we must have empirical research. I don't think archival or theoretical research is what we need. We need evidence-based research, which has to be empirical. People have to get out there. They have to run focus gr

Health committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the Standing Committee on Health, Madam Clerk, and colleagues, bonjour and good afternoon. I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to appear before you once again. My name is Anu Bose. I am the head of the Ottawa office of Option consommateurs.

Health committee  We have an admirable working relationship with Health Canada. I think it's something that other departments would do well to emulate. It's based on trust and mutual respect, and I would commend the minister and her staff.

Health committee  Absolutely. In fact, I think they're getting a bit sick of us.

Health committee  Yes. I think it would be useful for the minister, and I think she will take a sectoral approach, to have a management advisory committee consisting of consumer groups, health and safety groups, standards people, and manufacturers to advise her on how to better proceed. We should

Health committee  Option consommateurs does not have any amendments. Option consommateurs would like this to go through as soon as possible so that the parents and grandparents and children could all sleep easier before the gift-giving season really arrives. We're coming up on Halloween, when ther

Finance committee  I think our last pitch would be that it is well within the bounds of the government's duty of care to its citizens to take the advice of Senator Hugh Segal, who has said that the cost of poverty is borne by those who are not poor, and it is a quote that we put into our brief. In

Finance committee  Our submission in August was based on more optimistic forecasts of recovery. In his speech to the Windsor–Essex Chamber of Commerce, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney indicated that even though our recovery was far stronger than that of our G-7 peers, it was due largely to sho

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice-Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to present our views during the 2009 pre-budget consultations. My name is Anu Bose and I am the head of the Ottawa office of Option consommateurs. We are an organization that da

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I'll answer that question first. I did not meet with her. Mr. Décary-Gilardeau met with her about three months ago.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  But I was searching, trying to find her, Mr. Shipley.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Yes. We didn't know where she had an office.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Well, it wasn't on the website three months ago. I'm sorry, Mr. Shipley, but I had to call Mr. Anderson's office--