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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
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Anu Bose
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
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Anu Bose
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
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Anu Bose
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.
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Anu Bose
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.
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
Health committee Absolutely. In fact, I think they're getting a bit sick of us.
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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
October 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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
October 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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
September 17th, 2009Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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.
June 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Anu Bose
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee But I was searching, trying to find her, Mr. Shipley.
June 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Anu Bose
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee Yes. We didn't know where she had an office.
June 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Anu Bose
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--
June 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Anu Bose