Health committee  Patient must absolutely be able to trust again, and deploying PET technology is the most meaningful thing to do. As for mobile PET units, it is absolutely a mistake to try them. They rejected them in France, the country with the most experience with PET. Quebec rejected them. It

Health committee  I think in our country we must give each province a percentage of the amount of money they have a right to receive. But the deployment of PET scanners we now have in Quebec is not enough; it's just a first step. We've already used that money instead of putting it in a different f

Health committee  May I answer that, Madam Chair... In the province of Quebec, things do not work that way. After all, there are 7.8 million of us, we are Canadians and we work directly with our government. Since you ask, in my opinion, it is just to separate the Department of Health from I know

Health committee  We live in uncertain times. We never know whether a product will be available from one week to the next. Two weeks ago, we were supposed to receive an entire stock of generators, but they were not authorized because they were not regulation. Remarkable efforts are being made in

Health committee  When we testified before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, it was Dr. Karen Gulenchyn, from Hamilton, who said that if the amount of technetium available dropped lower than 50%, there could be deaths. So you would have to put that question to Dr. Gulenchyn.

Health committee  I will give you an example. Our group was never consulted about the decision to spend the $28 million. I do not believe that the Canadian, Quebec and Ontario associations—although I cannot speak for my colleagues—were consulted either. We are specialists in nuclear medicine and

Health committee  I'd like to add something, madame la présidente. I believe that a meeting of Canadian health ministers should be held, and that the federal government should provide each province with a sum of money—on a pro-rata basis—to ensure that PET technology can be implemented immediate

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank the distinguished members of this committee for giving me the opportunity, as the President of the Quebec Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists, to appear before you on behalf of my fellow nuclear medicine specialists. As soon as we learned

Natural Resources committee  They cost three times as much. I do not have the exact figures. For example, a millicurie of technetium—the millicurie is a unit of measurement—used to cost 19¢. Now we are paying 54¢. This represents 5 million additional dollars for Ontario—this information was conveyed to me by

Natural Resources committee  Our sick are concerned. We have had to dramatically reduce access to care although people knew three years ago that this crisis was coming. I think action should have been taken long ago to avoid the situation we find ourselves in today. The people being held hostage in this sit

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the committee, I would like to thank you, as the President of the Quebec Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists, for giving me this opportunity to appear before you on behalf of my nuclear medicine specialist colleagues from Quebec. We