Health committee  One thing that I think would be worth distributing to the committee or at least having translated, then distributed is the Boyer and Bartlett report, which was the external investigation into what happened in Saskatoon. It's a very good report. It's very objective. It also explai

Health committee  I think one main question we would have is about the length of the letter or summary of evidence. Some of the briefs we received are quite fulsome. Having some guidance from the committee about the length would help us with deciding how much information to include in the letter.

Health committee  It would be different in the sense that the process is different. For a report, there's a very formal process of adoption. As you know, in the past we've written summaries of evidence just for the committee. I think the difference between them is that we would write a summary of

Health committee  I think you'd probably need some guidance from the Auditor General on that aspect. Technically speaking, the Office of the Auditor General will only investigate things within its mandate, which are federal government departments and agencies. In the area of health, they did do

Health committee  You actually did ask.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I will leave the timing of the meeting with the PBO up to you. We redistributed the work plan, or the remaining meetings of the work plan, and that consists of getting a presentation from the PBO, who will present his report. After that, the other thing that was on the work pla

Health committee  No, it's fine. That was one of the hopes or objectives, I would say, of the summary of evidence, that it should at least help refresh your memories, because it does summarize the testimony along with the briefs we received and the recommendations. Hopefully, if you work your way

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I want a little more clarification on the weighting toward peer-reviewed information. Obviously, I understand what peer-reviewed information is, but with written submissions, what we usually do is summarize all of the evidence, and then at the end of the day, when you give drafti

Health committee  What's challenging for us and the reason we summarize everything is that it's difficult for us to be put in a position of weighting a submission from one witness versus another. It's difficult to make those judgment calls, because it can become political, depending on whose witne

Health committee  It's mainly with regard to M-47. The motion says that the committee is to report by July, which would mean that we need some drafting instructions. Then you would also need some time in your calendar to consider that report. I would just caution with regard to the antimicrobial

Health committee  CIHI does collect data on cost per patient, and so would be looking at direct costs, the incidence within the population, and what direct impact there is on the health care system. Then you can usually do some analysis on indirect costs in terms of productivity. I can't speak for

Health committee  Yes, they'll be on the list.

Health committee  As you recall, we had a meeting, and there were several options. Quebec was one of the provinces put forth because it was on the more generous side. There was some potential for.... It was my understanding that there had been some work done on what is referred to as an implicit