Health committee  I think you're referring to children's Tylenol. I think that's what the minister was alluding to in his letter to us, and of course it isn't a patented medicine. It doesn't have anything to do with products under our jurisdiction.

Health committee  I wasn't privy to those meetings, so I have no idea what the subject matter was.

Health committee  It overlapped with our consultations.

Health committee  I've never seen an English copy of that letter. The only copy I have says: “Sur la base de ces considérations, je demande respectueusement au Conseil d'envisager de suspendre le processus de consultation.” I take you at your word that this is the English translation.

Health committee  Right.

Health committee  I think the stakeholder group is divided, on one hand, between private insurers, public payers, independent patient groups and academics who support reforms and feel they have been heard, and on the other hand, industry and industry-funded patient groups that feel they have not b

Health committee  Yes, it's just plain wrong, and it's completely inconsistent with past practice. Typically, the chair, as I said.... I mean, it's true that the chair, from a purely pedantic standpoint, is a deputy head of the organization. Deputy heads of organizations are supposed to have “re

Health committee  I think the minister was improperly briefed.

Health committee  Well, I think the first and most important point is that it's not his place to consult his provincial counterparts on our guidelines. Again, that's—

Health committee  Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you said.... I'm not aware of him having met at all with his counterparts in other provinces. We briefed provincial ministries on our guidelines, and I'm not aware of his having met with the board since that letter.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  They weren't my reforms; they were the minister's reforms. If the acting chair had concerns about the constitutionality of these reforms, she never expressed them to me when she was in the position.

Health committee  We had seven meetings with Health Canada officials, and I would characterize all of those as briefings. We were briefing them on the content of the guidelines and also discussing the feedback we were getting from stakeholders. The proper platform, or vehicle, for consulting a m

Health committee  Yes, it was a crazy time all around, for sure.

Health committee  If you were to look at our public service survey results, we would typically outscore the public service as a whole on over 95% of the questions in terms of everything positive and outscore 90% of the other microagencies. I think we're doing just fine, in the main. There's no q