Environment committee  I have not received any requests in first nations and Inuit health. If other requests have been sent, they probably never came to first nations and Inuit health. Perhaps they have come to other branches of Health Canada. As you are probably aware, Health Canada is a member of man

Environment committee  I certainly could inquire.

Environment committee  The municipality of Fort Chip is part of the provincial jurisdiction, and our work with Fort Chip was in collaboration and partnership with Fort Chip.

Environment committee  As I responded in an earlier question, as soon as we were informed by Dr. O'Connor of his concerns specifically in March 2006, we immediately reacted by proposing and working to implement a cluster investigation. We assembled the team to respond to that study immediately. That wo

Environment committee  There was no increase in unusual or rare cancers. There was a small increase in three cancers, but these increases are very small because the numbers are very small. We're talking about two or three cancers, and because of the small size of the population, a variation by one canc

Environment committee  The health assessment done by the province has been communicated to the community in regard to other health issues like diabetes and hypertension, and the province has indicated its willingness to work with the community on these health issues.

Environment committee  We have never seen any such evidence.

Environment committee  Health Canada has not seen any other studies related to the exposure in the community to any of the environmental factors to health. Going back to the notion of environmental exposure, one of the things the Alberta Cancer Board points to is the absence of any childhood cancers in

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The Alberta Cancer Board study was a study to describe the incidence of cancer and not the risk of cancer. That's a major difference, because it's not conclusive at all about why the cancer has occurred. I agree with you that it is of utmost importa

Environment committee  Health Canada never laid charges.

Environment committee  There were complaints, but not charges, and the complaints were based on ethical and professional issues related to conduct.

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The number one priority for us in Health Canada is to protect first nations and Inuit health. The response of Health Canada, as soon as Dr. O'Connor phoned us, was to immediately instigate an investigation to follow up on the claims of a cluster of ca

Environment committee  The Alberta Cancer Board did a rigorous study that was reviewed by peer reviewers from across the world on the methods used and the results. Every single peer review is published on public websites. You can read the reviewers' comments on the study. We at Health Canada have con

Environment committee  Dr. O'Connor never undertook a study. Dr. O'Connor only suggested that there were six cases he had seen.

Environment committee  To my awareness, there are only two studies for human health. The two were conducted, and the first one was in 2006, by Alberta Health and Wellness. They did a review of the health status of the community of Fort Chipewyan. In that review, they looked at not just cancers but the