Health committee  Not at this time, no.

Health committee  I would say the same thing. There were people there with different views along a spectrum. We were never at the point where we were debating in great detail any matter of substance. We didn't get to the point of doing that kind of hard work.

Health committee  Absolutely. Yes.

Health committee  I'll offer two comments. I consider myself a relatively strong and capable woman. The last face-to-face board meeting that I participated in, and I did not know it would be my last face-to-face board meeting when I left, I can honestly tell you that I left there almost in shock

Health committee  I can't do that. It's a complicated but important story.

Health committee  As I told you, we saw the 2009-2010 budget for the first time at a meeting in June. They used slides. At that point, I said that it was unacceptable and I was not the only one to say that. Although we were supposed to vote on the budget according to the agenda, we refused to do

Health committee  As a point of information, if you like I can tell you who's left on the board and what expertise is there. There's a retired family physician and former premier, who is the chair; a hemato-oncologist; a geneticist; a member of a biotechnology company; a scholar in Jewish studies

Health committee  That was the slides.

Health committee  That's certainly my understanding of what the government would do in naming any board: make sure that it has disparate views, disparate geography, disparate gender, disparate language. All of that comes into the mix. With respect to this particular process, we had to apply—at l

Health committee  What do you mean by “the challenges”?

Health committee  I think that was certainly described as an issue once it had reached the Supreme Court of Canada, but I think it's important to appreciate that this challenge started very shortly after the legislation was written. In case you don't know, I was the person contracted to write the

Health committee  I don't know if it exists. I assume something went to the federal government, so there must be something that could be tabled. I've never seen that budget. I would also anticipate that, in theory, the budget for 2010-11 should be available.

Health committee  Can you tell me what it means, “be tabled”?

Health committee  Be available to you? Absolutely.

Health committee  I think you should have access to all of the minutes. I don't think you'll find anything very telling in them. I have brought with me a binder that I'm prepared to leave here. It's not available in French, because I didn't have the time to do it twice, but these documents have al