Health committee  I will speak to my last meeting with the board. It was a conference call. I had repeatedly tried to obtain the minutes, as a board member, to review them, because there were issues that the chair and I were going to discuss. I had repeatedly tried to get these minutes to review t

Health committee  I would agree with that as well.

Health committee  Actually, at that particular meeting, I know that I was shocked, and at the end of meeting I asked the chair, “Are we not all, as board members, supposed to be on the same level? We're not supposed to be treating each other like that.” In terms of an intimidating atmosphere, the

Health committee  If I understand your question, you're asking if those are the kinds of things that were in the minutes? Okay. I wasn't on the board when the discussion about the minutes first happened that Françoise had mentioned. But the problem I experienced on the board was that by the time

Health committee  I was appointed to the board in September; that was several months after the board formed. I have experience as a patient, experience as a parent of children who use these technologies. That was one of the comments that the health minister's adviser mentioned to me when I heard t

Health committee  I was there.

Health committee  I was questioned by the president about a board member. I don't know whether or not the president questioned anybody about me. I can only talk about my experience.

Health committee  It was not in a board meeting. The president happened to.... I happened to be in Ottawa, and she offered to meet with me and take me to the airport. We had a discussion at the airport, where she started off by saying that she didn't want to cross any.... I don't know what the rig

Health committee  I have one last statement.

Health committee  How will this experience encourage everyday Canadians to be compelled to share, be involved, and care enough about issues to take the risk of exposing themselves and their families and the--

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  I would agree, and I would agree because when you have someone who is independent outside of the organization, they will look at this and they will investigate if there was any wrongdoing or if there was not. To me, that would be transparent, and that's what this government stand

Health committee  Thank you. As a parent of children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies who believes strongly in the legislation and all of the good that was to come of it, I am devastated to have been a witness to what should have been an organization that, according to the boa

Health committee  Thank you for inviting me to appear before your committee today. In previous appearances before this committee, in previous years, my testimony focused on my experience as a patient and a parent of children conceived through reproductive technologies. We shared our private lives