Health committee  I'll get back to the chair on that.

Health committee  Just by looking at my latest notes on this, I believe our plan is to move ahead on plain packaging relatively expeditiously. We have legislation before the House now, in BillS-5, that will give us some additional authorities needed to take action on plain packaging. We would be d

Health committee  I don't have immediate access to the information. There is a presumption that there will be downstream savings to the health care system and elsewhere, but we still have to do some work with the provinces and territories to determine exactly where the funds will go. The governmen

Health committee  To reinforce what the minister said, we certainly have been taking very seriously these recent violations around pesticides. We have begun a program of randomized sampling to keep the industry on its toes. Right now, there is a very strict list of which pesticides are authorized

Health committee  We want to see what the results of the randomized program indicate before we make a decision about what a final regime would look like. To date, we have not seen any information to suggest we need to have a program of inspecting every batch lot of every company.

Health committee  Right now, we have mandatory requirements around pesticide use, and the randomized inspections are designed to determine whether or not the companies are actually following that protocol. That's frankly pretty typical in the way in which inspection regimes function. In many regim

Health committee  I'd have to get back to you with that. At this point I don't have it.

Health committee  We have further conversations we have to have with the provinces and territories, but to have the first year of funding flow fairly quickly, we're looking at what the mechanisms would be to do that. The idea would be to get going and put some of that money out fairly quickly in y

Justice committee  I think, Mr. Chair, as the ministers explained, in the various jurisdictions the provinces delineate in certain cases certain functions that are delegated to nurse practitioners that would normally be performed by a doctor. I think the thinking here was that it will really be up

Justice committee  To the extent that a province would delegate this function to a nurse practitioner, it would only be within the scopes of practice that are available to nurse practitioners. In other words, it's not that all nurse practitioners and all nurses get to do this by virtue of the feder

Justice committee  I'll maybe draw the committee's attention to Minister Philpott's intervention on this matter, because I think this was a guiding consideration for the government. In looking at this there were effectively three choices: to have a fixed timeline under which death could take place,

Justice committee  I think what I would do, Mr. Chair, is just reiterate the minister's commitment to pursue this. The government's committed to negotiating a new health accord with the provinces and territories. One element of the conversations we're having with the provinces and territories right

Health committee  We certainly have done some work in this area. I know the Public Health Agency has, as well as CIHR. I think any one of my colleagues can probably speak to this. This is an area where, frankly, more work needs to be done. The government committed to establish an expert advisory

Health committee  At this point we're still talking to the PTs. I think this is an area where we know, for example, that for a lot of Canadians, the first expert they see when they're dealing with mental health issues is their physician, so there are issues around what kinds of tools and training

Health committee  The Mental Health Commission is very important foundation for us, a very important piece of work as we work with our colleagues in the provinces on what to do. Even at Health Canada we've adopted the national standard of Canada for psychological health and safety. We're actually