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Health committee In the end, yes. In the end, when there are no other options, when people don't know where to go, they will turn to us and we'll find a way.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee The overall approach to manage any incident we have is what we call the federal emergency response plan. We've developed this in talking with the national security types of organizations like CBSA, RCMP, and Transport, the organizations that deal with incidents that are criminal
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee Yes, in the spring, and actually over the summer as well. A working subgroup was created back in 2006 and it is part of the annex of the pandemic plan. A working group with the private sector was created. This working group has met. There are about 100 or so organizations. Public
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee Do you mean each business continuity plan?
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee Those are the critical services I was talking about in theory, and it has happened. When there was the power outage, departments relocated from one side of the river to the other. They kicked in their business continuity plan. If something happened today in downtown Ottawa and we
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee I am sorry to disappoint you. The answer is no, and let me tell you why. As I mentioned earlier, you cannot have a plan for every single type of incident that can come up, because keeping them up to date and making sure that you have the right plan, the right version, would be
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee We are very well prepared. I think we are exceptionally well prepared. That doesn't mean we should be complacent, but we, meaning the collective group of government employees, have been working at this since 2002, taking our lead from the science of the Public Health Agency and a
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee We have a list of business continuity coordinators.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee I think that's probably the best tool, giving you who is in each department—
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee The health portfolio is responsible for health. Public Safety is responsible for coordinating—
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee Well, the Minister of Health.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee The Minister of Health is clearly the person who is in the lead for the health portion of the pandemic response, yes.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee If we go back to SARS, Health was responsible for everything.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee In order to answer your question, I don't want to take 10 minutes, but I have to give you a little bit of history. During SARS, one of the problems was that there was only Health trying to do everything. There was a decision at the time to create the Public Health Agency of Canad
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie
Health committee The question you are asking is hypothetical. I may not see it the same way you do, because you're not defining that phrase, that there may be hard decisions to make. Yes, there are hard decisions to make every day, but the system we have allows us to bring the information forwa
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Daniel Lavoie