Health committee  I've worked primarily on ticks, so figuring out what diseases they have and essentially supporting communities so that, when people find a tick on them, we test it, because that's not necessarily available in all parts of Canada. In some parts of Canada, a tick can get tested thr

Health committee  Yes, I'm funded by both the federal and provincial level, as well as by the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.

Health committee  There are studies that show there was no improvement with longer antibiotic use. There are other studies that showed improvement. I would point out that with some of the studies—

Health committee  I can certainly send it to you. I will point out that the study that showed no improvement essentially repeated a non-productive intervention, and really, if something didn't work the first time, the odds of its working the second time are remote.

Health committee  Yes. They're both by Wormser.

Health committee  I can't give you specifics, not off the top of my head, but I will give you examples. Depending on which public health website you look at, you will read that the tick must be attached for either 24, 48, or 72 hours in order to transmit the disease. There are, however, reports s

Health committee  Yes. Absolutely.

Health committee  The conference brought together patients and scientists and medical professionals. At the end of the conference, there was a conference summary. If you go to the online version of the framework it's hyperlinked there. The summary couldn't capture all of those testimonials, but ke

Health committee  I can keep going, but I don't think we want to do that.

Health committee  It will not unless.... We already have a surveillance system. We have to fix it and bring together all the people who think of different ways to do surveillance, as opposed to just doing more of the same thing.

Health committee  If it were to be different, I would think that would be indicated in the document by saying that this is something different we can do to help Canadians as opposed to making a general statement that we'll do something.

Health committee  No, it doesn't. It provides no opportunity for input, or even for updating the science. We need a way of feeding in new scientific discoveries as they happen, and they're happening very rapidly. There is, essentially, no dialogue. There's no way to make this a living document.

Health committee  No scientist is ever going to say, “That's enough money”, but perhaps I'll—

Health committee  I might actually break tradition there. I would say that it depends on how you are going to use the money. If it's more of the same, I don't think that's a very good use of the budget whatsoever. Canadian scientists are very good at scraping along with relatively little money, a

Health committee  We need to bring the patient voice into it, because the current framework was written by the people who basically brought us to this position in the first place, and it endorses the status quo. That's not the situation we're facing in Canada. Jennifer and Sue have described what