Health committee  I'm not aware. It is possible. Certainly at my level we haven't met with that organization. When we get to the regulatory process and get draft regulations, presumably a lot of these groups that have an interest would be wanting to make submissions and representations, but at th

Health committee  I don't know about that.

Health committee  Maybe just to clarify, Mr. Chair, the main delivery of the program is actually INAC, and Health Canada has a small portion. We provide the policy advice, the content about what should be covered, what constitutes nutritious food, that sort of thing. In the budget we received a s

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. There's a variety of quite powerful provisions that have come into force under Vanessa's Law, and unfortunately I'm not able to cite the specific one with relation to advertising or how it applies, but I could come back to the committee. Fo

Health committee  Yes, I can certainly assure the member that the Health Canada funding as regards water and safe water...and in the specific case of Health Canada our role is around testing. There are other elements that belong to Aboriginal Affairs, and so on, but certainly that funding continue

Health committee  Mr. Chair, on the issue of electronic cigarettes, this is something the department is looking at quite carefully. We're grateful actually for the work of the committee and all of the consultations that were done and the recommendations. We've been examining those quite carefully.

Health committee  I want to assure the member there's a lot of work going on to come back with a response.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I'm going to answer in English, if you don't mind, just to make sure I give you an accurate answer.

Health committee  This is an issue we're looking at very carefully. Health Canada obviously has an important mandate to protect the safety of the public. At the same time we want to make sure we're making decisions based on the best science available. In the case of the neonic class of pesticides

Health committee  Mr. Chair, sometimes I think the officials are as flummoxed as the honourable members are. On the issue that had been raised around the table with the minister on funding for first nations in particular, there are a number of programs in the department's budget where they do not

Health committee  Mr. Chair, thanks for the question. As part of the department's plan for transparency and openness, we're going to be moving ahead shortly to make available publicly all of the various advertising complaints we receive and the manner in which the department takes action to addre

Health committee  Thanks, Minister. On this particular case, the original submission was made under the access to information rules. The ministry is obliged to apply the access law, which does require a number of exemptions for business information and so on. With new authorities under Vanessa'