Health committee  B.C. has looked at schools 10 years after remediation, and they've stayed low.

Health committee  It does not require a fan, that's right.

Health committee  It dissipates.

Health committee  Just for clarification, that's without a fan. If you build a home with the pipe that goes up to the ceiling and out the roof, and put in the fan, you're very likely to lower your concentration to negligible levels. If you just build the pipe and don't build the fan, you don't kno

Health committee  There's a bit, yes.

Health committee  Both Health Canada and the BCCDC have encouraged doctors—those of us in British Columbia and Health Canada across the country—and have had awareness campaigns for physicians. We have issued pamphlets to physicians and have put it in the medical literature. Doctors can help with t

Health committee  No. There are many types of lung cancer but the basic groupings of lung cancer tend to be different in non-smokers and in smokers so that if you looked at autopsy evidence, you would have a very strong chance of knowing whether the lung cancer you were looking at was occurring in

Health committee  It's a good question. Nobody has done a study like that. One could do it. That would be something that the CIHR, the Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, should get into, because it's worth it. You can almost pick them out. Typically, a non-smoker radon-exposed person wou

Health committee  It's slightly complicated, but I'll get onto one of my other hobby horses, for what it's worth. It's not the radon itself that causes the lung cancer; it's the so-called degradation products of the radon. Radon is an inert gas, so it doesn't attach itself to lung linings. It's wh

Health committee  Yes, per second per cubic metre. Pardon me. Each one of those alpha particles that either the radon itself or the metals it produces or releases causes a packet of energy to get into any cell it's next to. Radon gas itself, because it doesn't react—it's inert chemically—tends to

Health committee  Yes, a becquerel.

Health committee  Also, we all agree that radon should be built out in the first place. That is the most important thing to do. Test and remediate should also be directed to priority areas. If you're living in interior B.C., your risk of having a higher level of radon in your house, never mind whe

Health committee  Diesel exhaust has a number of important health effects, primarily cardiovascular and respiratory. It increases the burden of emphysema. It makes you more likely to have heart disease. It makes you more likely to have a heart attack if you do have heart disease. It also can cause

Health committee  In any case, the intimacy of exposure to radon is more important than the intimacy or the regularity of exposure to diesel fumes. Between the two, in terms of the contribution to the population burden of lung cancer itself, radon would be far more important. Diesel fumes should b

Health committee  I can finish in one minute. Even if everybody tested, and everybody whose house was over 200 did remediation, we'd only touch lung cancer in Canada in a minor way. So what should we do? We should and we can build radon out. The new building code, the guidance levels, and provinc