Health committee  Everybody would like to answer that question, I'm sure, but I'll be brave here and say that it can be an inhibition. Frankly, I think for the level of national charity that is addressing you today, that's less of an issue for the simple reason that the budgets are so large. The

Health committee  If I may respond, it's a combination of things. You've identified one of the factors, which is cigarette smoke. Overcrowding is also often connected with poor ventilation, so there's general poor indoor air quality, and that often is associated with mould growth and—

Health committee  Obviously, as you've mentioned, it isn't the role of the federal government to deliver health care services, but we feel there is an important role and it's a role that the federal government has fortunately been playing. First of all, there are obviously areas of direct federal

Health committee  Thank you very much. I apologize for being late. I was at the Minister of Finance's office and I couldn't tear myself away.

Health committee  I certainly don't mean I was seeing him personally, as you well know.

Health committee  Okay, well, thank you. I'm Christopher Wilson. I'm the director of public affairs and advocacy with the Canadian Lung Association. With me is Rosario Holmes, who is an asthma and chronic obstrucive pulmonary disease educator. I'm going to give you the short version. The story

Finance committee  First of all, I'm going to let you off the hook. I'm not going to ask you to choose between disease groups because that would be an impossible decision for anyone, particularly for a political representative.

Finance committee  Clearly, there is an imbalance in the research allocation at the moment and we would like to see that addressed.

Finance committee  Well, actually two forms of imbalance. There's an imbalance between basic research and what you might call applied research or clinical research, which we'd like to have addressed, and fortunately there's movement in that direction.

Finance committee  Yes, that's right. CIHR is moving to address that, and we support that move. The other imbalance we've pointed out is that respiratory health research has historically been underfunded, and we'd like to see that addressed. We're not, to be clear, raising equity issues about th

Finance committee  We are very encouraged by the CIHR's new focus on its strategy for patient-oriented research. We think investment in practical research that translates the knowledge gained from biomedical research into real outcomes at the bedside is definitely the way to go. Currently, 94% of

Finance committee  Hello. I'm Christopher Wilson, the director of public affairs and advocacy for the Canadian Lung Association. With me is Dr. Andrew Halayko, who is the chair of the research committee of our medical arm, the Canadian Thoracic Society. Today we want to highlight the urgent need