Health committee  We have received $25 million over five years to improve vaccine coverage rates. There are several different components to that. One is to reset those targets to make sure they are still where we want to hit, have better ways of methodology for estimating vaccine coverage. We're a

Health committee  We already have in place a federal framework and action plan. I've been playing some leadership role in putting together a cross-sectoral agriculture, animal health, human health, pan-Canadian framework. That involves all of the people, the health portfolios sitting here—CIHR, He

Health committee  I cannot speak to specific figures. Obviously, if we were on the upstream side—taking a public health perspective and looking more at prevention and promotion, particularly in the young—the lifetime savings are going to be quite significant for sure.

Health committee  Within the Public Health Agency of Canada we are strengthening surveillance, education, and awareness. We're looking at where more information or knowledge is needed. We are leveraging, essentially, on any funding we may have under climate change, because we're looking at the exp