Health committee  You know, as I think Minister Bennett said, words matter. Recovery is really about getting people to a place where they are in the best health possible. That's a journey. We're trying to limit harms from substance use. The underlying illnesses that cause substance use disorder ar

Health committee  The short answer is yes. We'll continue to be working with all the manufacturers, the larger ones and the smaller ones, to increase supply. There are a number of proposals already on the table that are in the magnitude of millions of units coming in. It's difficult to know exac

Health committee  They are generally bottles. The bottles come in different sizes. They can be anything from.... For example, when we're looking at retail acetaminophen, the bottles are actually a slightly larger size than the bottles we would normally have: 120 milligrams versus 100 milligrams. T

Health committee  The issue of a registry for breast implants, joints or other medical devices has been raised in the past as well. We're in the process of working with CIHR to put together what's called a “best brains exchange”, which brings together experts in different federal departments to as

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First we would say that we feel for parents and caregivers. Being parents of young children is a difficult enough job. To try to figure out how to source medications to treat them for pain or fever is just adding to the stress. We're obviously dealing with

Health committee  Mr. Chair, absolutely the point is well taken that communications need to be very carefully done when it comes to drug shortages. You don't want to precipitate any panic buying. What we've seen specifically with Tylenol and ibuprofen is that there was some tightness in supply bac

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The manufacture of pharmaceuticals is absolutely global. It's not unusual to have a pharmaceutical where the active pharmaceutical ingredient comes from one country, the first part of manufacturing happens in another country and then maybe packaging and lab