Health committee  In terms of the U.K. model, I was just going to say that it's a mix of probabilities and objective evidence, so there are a number of tiers that they go through. It's not a pure probability model. I think you'll find across the world that there are variations in that regard. In

Health committee  Thalidomide was distributed in more than 46 countries worldwide. It was developed in Germany and they did testing in 1953-54. To the best of my knowledge, the drug became available in 1957—which is the year I was born, just FYI, so I'm in the same generation. It came to Canada in

Health committee  That would be possible through a policy process. It might require a cabinet decision. I don't want to commit the minister to anything, but—

Health committee  I can't answer on behalf of the minister.

Health committee  You're asking a hypothetical....

Health committee  Not that linearly, but it's possible, yes.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I want to respond to the best of my ability. However, you'll understand that I'm limited in what I can say or hypothesize regarding the existing program and its management.

Health committee  I don't know if that's a fair question for Crawford as they're administering the existing criteria. All I can say is that decisions were made by the government to establish the program with the criteria that we have, which doesn't include in-person interviews. It just includes th

Health committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to provide information on the government's support for Canadian thalidomide survivors. Most of my remarks will be in English. I can also respond in French. I would be happy to take questions in either language. In my current position

Status of Women committee  That's a good question, actually. We haven't been tracking that. We've been trying to track how many people take the training, and we have information in terms of how we're seeing an increase in SGBA applied to memoranda to cabinet and Treasury Board submissions, for example, but

Status of Women committee  I think what I said is that in the gender and health unit we're not subject matter experts. We can't possibly be experts in everything that goes on in the department, so it's really much more about the process and supporting people. I really like the phrase from the New Zealand

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  The exercise of monitoring is always helpful. When someone asks me at the end of the day what I've achieved and I have to come up with something, it really makes me think twice about what I'm doing and what I'm accomplishing. There's a certain self-interest and motivation there,

Status of Women committee  I can't speak specifically on this one. That would be a Public Health Agency matter, not a Health Canada one specifically, so I wouldn't have enough knowledge. Using that as an example to extrapolate though, for sure if we looked at those kinds of issues and did a better job, w

Status of Women committee  Doing better sex- and gender-based analysis is certainly never going to hurt, but I think you're sort of touching on a bigger question in terms of the decision-making. Because we are public servants, our job is to give that good advice based on evidence, to do our best research,