Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Perhaps I could clarify. The agency continues to serve as a national centre of expertise on assisted human reproduction. There are many activities the agency has been doing beyond the two that have been mentioned. We have an active program working with t

Health committee  Yes I can, Madam Chair. Thank you.

Health committee  Thank you for the question, Madam Chair. I believe we provided the budget material to HESA at their last request. You have that in your binders. I believe the direction now is to provide any other material we have on the budget, which we will provide. As Dr. Hamm explained ear

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. Yes, the committee did request the agendas, the minutes, and the budgets, which we prepared and produced. Our understanding, through our feedback from the clerk, was that the request was for what I did when I was in Vancouver, so we gave you

Health committee  Thank you for the question, Madam Chair. The cross-border reproductive care conference was discussed at this committee in June when I did table the costs as I was requested to by your colleagues of the Bloc. We hosted this cross-border reproductive care forum because this is a h

Health committee  I'm sorry.

Health committee  As was mentioned earlier, when we receive complaints we investigate them. Because of the issues of privacy in these areas, I am unable to speak about individual cases or individual complaints. But if we had received a complaint of that nature, rest assured, it would have been inv

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. I think most people I know would not describe me as being intimidating. However, I think most people would describe me as being extremely expressive. I do wave my hands when I talk. I need to sit on them at times. But I have the utmost r

Health committee  That's correct.

Health committee  Perhaps I could start. Obviously, there was great interest in and concern about the article. As we have discussed before at this committee, we have a very active compliance and enforcement program in place with the agency; any complaints of that type that come to our attention a

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. It was CloseReach in discussion with a board subcommittee. Dr. Hamm appointed the subcommittee, chaired by our vice-chair, Dr. Chudley. Suzanne Scorsone and Theresa Kennedy were the other two members. CloseReach met with that committee,

Health committee  It is audited financial statements for that fiscal year, Madam Leslie, and--

Health committee  It was for 2009-10, the year under question. It was also an audit of the contracts and the finances on the cross-border reproductive care meeting.

Health committee  I'm wondering, Madam Chair, with all due respect, if that might be a question for the chair of the board as to whether he feels his board can meet the mandate.