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Health committee  If I may, I'll answer first. I think it leads to the common misconception that medical officers of health and chief medical officers of health in the provinces and territories are independent. They're not. They are employees of the provincial government and therefore put under t

May 3rd, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  It's difficult, insomuch as medical officers of health are not elected. The electorate chooses people to make these very difficult decisions on their behalf. I think that as a result of the pandemic, people will perhaps think about these decisions differently in the future.

May 3rd, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, honourable members, and thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limits of our health care and public health systems and resulted in governments considering the implementation of the Emergencie

May 3rd, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Front-line public health organizations have links to those communities established. They work with them on a regular basis, so we'll be getting allies into community centres or other venues. It's hard to have large groups, so it's more one-on-one. However, the ability to connec

February 1st, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  First, it depends on which vaccines we're talking about. The need to track and have in an electronic registry a record of who has been vaccinated, to schedule their second dose and be able to track any adverse events, is going to be crucial. My concern about increasing the number

February 1st, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, honourable members of Parliament. Thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. On behalf of the Canadian Public Health Association, I want to begin by expressing our gratitude and support for the public health officials and heal

February 1st, 2021Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  My comment was speaking specifically to the federal government's role in public health, which is the prevention and health promotion side of the equation, and it doesn't have a role. I will reassert that the more we keep people healthy, the more likely we'll have a sustainable he

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I would suggest that we have some evidence to show that coercive actions can only be used as a last resort. For example, forcing people living with TB into sanatoriums earlier in the 20th century resulted in their avoiding public health authorities, g

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Certainly. First, I don't think it was ever imagined that the national emergency stockpile would be able to supply all of Canada in this kind of an outbreak. Keep in mind that SARS was limited to Ontario and B.C. predominantly. H1N1 was a different kind of outbreak, so the types

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  I would say that you're talking about a highly sensitized community in that situation. They had a direct connection to what was happening in China and were very much aware. I think many Canadians were not that connected and were thinking of it as a problem on the other side of th

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Certainly many of the lessons of SARS have been learned, and I think we would be in a much worse situation if we had not followed those recommendations as closely as we did. We have the Public Health Agency of Canada, which is really doing a tremendous amount of work, and the coo

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Absolutely not. I would say that the national emergency stockpile is probably the largest failure in our response to date. As I mentioned, it is one of those things that require much greater collaboration between the federal government and the provincial and territorial governmen

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Well, certainly the establishment of national public health standards across the country would be a wonderful development out of something like that. In the case of immunization, we have different immunization schedules in different jurisdictions, and so you would have the abilit

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert

Health committee  Certainly, and thank you for the question. I want to clarify that as a non-governmental organization, we aren't privy to many of the conversations to which you refer, although I co-chair, with Dr. Theresa Tam, the CPHA's health professional forum, which brings together health pr

April 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Ian Culbert