Health committee  You'll be glad to know that you're welcome back. Health Canada has granted us approval to remove the upper age limit, so come on back.

Health committee  No, but we have other reasons why people would be deferred. It depends on where you take your warm vacations in the wintertime. That could get in the way. If you spent certain amounts of time in Britain during the mad-cow era, you'll be permanently deferred. We have a long list o

Health committee  It was eighteen months or two years ago.

Health committee  The simple answer is, yes, we can always do more. There has been a huge amount of work done in this area. I think society owes the Jehovah's Witnesses a debt, because they have driven surgeons to develop procedures that use less blood. They have changed the mindset around blood t

Health committee  Part of it is just that there's a large number of people every year who essentially stop donating, for one reason or another. Either they've stopped being a donor and turned into a patient, or they've moved to somewhere where we don't have clinics. We lose a lot of donors every y

Health committee  It is about donor replacement.

Health committee  That's right.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes, it was, and, yes, you did understand that correctly.

Health committee  That's correct. When they removed the question.... They used to have a permanent deferral, like most other European countries did at the time. They removed it and they saw an increase in the number of donations that were showing up as HIV positive. Either these were men who didn'

Health committee  No, it was me.

Health committee  They just don't ask that question at all if you're a man who's had sex with another man—

Health committee  It was about double.

Health committee  It depends on which blood component we've made out of that. If we look at the red blood cells that we use for transfusion, the vast majority of this blood is transfused. A small proportion of it actually outdates, because you can only keep it for 42 days. It may not get used, par

Health committee  Absolutely. The donors provide informed consent.