Health committee  No, but if you look at the possible sentences and fines for not complying to specific rules.... If you work with a level 2 pathogen and you don't comply, you can be fined and go to jail. Compared to somebody who is caught drunk while driving, it's a clear imbalance between the po

Health committee  I briefly mentioned inadequate infrastructure. To establish a level 2 containment laboratory, you have to buy the proper biological safety cabinets. If you do not have them, they will cost you $20,000. Where is that money going to come from? Building and maintaining a level 3 con

Health committee  Maybe I can answer that question. Concerning level 3 and level 4 pathogens, there are already a lot of regulations. I don't think that adding this criminal aspect would help in deterring somebody determined to cause a bioterrorism act. I think somebody like the person who was

Health committee  First, let me thank you for giving me the privilege of coming to share with you the concerns of a number of my colleagues and myself with regard to many aspects of Bill C-11. I am a professor and researcher at the Institut Armand-Frappier. Most of the research and teaching activ