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Health committee  There are actual professional radon mitigators. Health Canada provides a directory of all the licensed mitigators across the country. For our work and what we do, if people come back with a test result of over 200 becquerels per cubic metre, we direct them to Health Canada to f

June 16th, 2015Committee meeting

Dr. Robert Nuttall

Health committee  There's a Take Action on Radon network that has a lot of support from Health Canada, the Canadian Lung Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society. There's also a group, the Summerhill group, but I can't remember what they do. Again, they're a community awareness and environment

June 16th, 2015Committee meeting

Dr. Robert Nuttall

Health committee  Yes, I can take that one. In our Canadian geology, basically we sit on a whole bunch of rich natural resources, one of them being uranium. Uranium contributes most of the emissions of radon gas. We have geology maps that target where we have areas of high uranium and areas where

June 16th, 2015Committee meeting

Dr. Robert Nuttall

Health committee  I think the other consideration is that when you're looking at what the right age is, the evidence from the NLST study is that with regard to the 55-to-74 age group and the 30 pack-year criteria, this is where the benefit occurs. So if you were to start, you would start there. T

June 16th, 2015Committee meeting

Dr. Robert Nuttall

Health committee  Thanks. I'm Robert Nuttall. I'm the assistant director of cancer control policy. I'll be doing the presentation, but my colleague, Rob Cunningham, a senior policy analyst with the society, will also be here for the question period. Chair and committee members, I want to thank

June 16th, 2015Committee meeting

Dr. Robert Nuttall