Health committee  I am going to do my best to provide a more satisfactory answer, but it may be that it will not satisfy you, in spite of everything. As Mr. Butler-Jones said, this area, and I am not talking here only about natural products, but health policy in general, is very complicated. The

Health committee  Yes. Infoway would have that, and we could provide it. The other thing I should say is that this is a multi-year program. If you look at the way both the previous Liberal government and the present government have provided funding, you see that it has been provided in tranches.

Health committee  Thank you. Let me say at the outset that I don't think I have with me all the specific information you want, but we will endeavour to get it and to provide it. I can give you a little bit more information. To give you an example of things that have been done, drug information

Health committee  We have provided money to Infoway; Infoway then provides money to the provinces. The cost-sharing ratio, I believe, is 75% to Infoway and 25% to the provinces. It is not done, as I mentioned earlier, on an across-the-board basis. Infoway isn't just providing money to everybody; I

Health committee  I don't have that information. That information is available; I don't happen to have it here, but I would be happy to provide it to you as soon as we can.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I will start, but I may turn to Glenda, only because in her previous job as the president of the Canadian Institute for Health Information she was very involved in some ongoing work that I'll mention. Privacy is an issue, obviously, with respect to a

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Just to be clear, the regulatory mandate of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board is to ensure that prices charged by patentees for their patented medicines sold in Canada are not excessive. The role of the board and its staff is to investigate pr

Health committee  I think it may be. That's a national rate. I'd have to get back to you on where we would be with Ontario. I don't think Ontario will be at 50%. I think we're actually quite close to 50%, even though in the Auditor General's report the actual metric was somewhere just below 20%. T

Health committee  I began by saying, as Ms. Boudreau explained yesterday, that in part, it is the meaning of the words that is in issue. There is no intention to give you incorrect information. It is a complex question. I have to say that the department and the Natural Health Products Directorate

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I think one of the realities of Infoway, and it really does go to the funding model, is that funding isn't flowing across the country on an equal basis. That is because Infoway, as part of its prudence in how it manages its money, will only flow money

Health committee  Ontario has been a little bit more problematic, as you're aware, because of some of the difficulties that occurred initially with Smart Systems for Health, and then more recently with eHealth Ontario. One thing I will say is that there is one very good example, and that is the O

Health committee  I can't give you the list today. I think you're referring to some of the reallocations made as a result of the strategic review last year. Is that...?

Health committee  If you'll just give us a second, we'll have a look at that.

Health committee  Thank you. I'm informed--and we will provide you with more details--that none of those cuts deal with maternal health issues.

Health committee  Thank you. As was mentioned, the federal Auditor General did an audit of Infoway. While no audit is ever perfect, I think the Auditor General found that Infoway was largely on the right track. A few recommendations were made with respect to some of its management practices. Info