Health committee I can do that for Health Canada, and colleagues may wish to respond for their own elements. You'll see that there's a decrease of about $1.1 million in travel. Within Health Canada, we work very hard to try to find the best efficiencies we can. What that means is that we're usi
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee Yes, and I think colleagues would want to speak to that. Jane.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee I will ask Mr. Glover to respond to that.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee Let me start, and then colleagues may wish to elaborate. As you've noted, there is now stable, predictable funding, creating a known envelope within which the provinces can do planning. In addition, the government continues to make significant investments in a number of other ar
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee No, we had a bit larger than usual carry-forward. Every department doesn't spend its full budget every year. Last year Health Canada had a larger carry-forward than normal, and that was due largely to some change trends in the first nations and Inuit health program, where spendin
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee It complements the response that was given by CFIA to the earlier question. The Health Canada role is to set standards and policies, and then CFIA implements those standards and policies. The specific funding and the enhancements for Health Canada are to work on reviewing standar
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee The answer is relatively simple. To date, no company has applied to market the product in Canada. Obviously if we receive such an application, we would study very much the data, the experience in other countries, and we would try to deal with it as quickly as possible.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee I can't speculate on how long it would take. It would depend on the application. But in this case, given widespread use, given lots of data from other countries, I would expect it would go faster than normal applications.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee Again, let me offer a few comments on that. The reason that a new approach was taken and a new program was put in place is because the existing model of personal production had very significant diversion from its intended purpose. And both municipalities and law enforcement wer
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee I will double-check that, because the information I received was the opposite.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont
Health committee Yes, I certainly will.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
George Da Pont