Health committee  I think there's accountability all the way up the line. I would categorize this, as I say, as an honest overestimation, an administrative issue very well within the purview of the bureaucracy.

Health committee  All the way up the line to me.

Health committee  We have taken responsibility. I know Jim Wolfe sent a letter and apologized. There was a media event. I'm certainly prepared to stand in Jim's shoes and do the same thing.

Health committee  Madam Chair, given that there are some important public health considerations to this, I'm going to turn to Dr. Gully, whom we have brought in essentially as the incident commander for first nations and Inuit health, as you know. I'm going to ask Dr. Gully to try to respond.

Health committee  Let me try to answer the issue about the nurse. I was in Winnipeg on Friday, and I did two things in Winnipeg. In the morning, I met with regional staff to give them an opportunity to see the draft report and ask if it was fair. In the afternoon, I met with Grand Chief Evans and

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and members of the committee. On September 17 I was asked by Minister Leona Aglukkaq to look into the events that led to the delivery of a large quantity of body bags to the Wasagamack First Nation in northern Manitoba. This morning, at her regul

Health committee  If I could just add to that, FNIHB is obviously involved in that as well. There has been an annual investment of $16.7 million ongoing since 2001-02. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research funds academic institutions for FASD-related research through grants based on prioritie

Health committee  Thank you. As you're aware, there was a campaign commitment made by the Conservative Party with respect to cracking down on flavoured cigarettes: setting minimum packet sizes for cigarillos so they would be less affordable for children; prohibiting flavouring additives that wou

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Through the 2007 budget, there was a commitment of $130 million over 10 years to establish the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and consistent with the Treasury Board submission, funds allocated to the commission are as follows: $5.5 million in its fir

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I think this is actually a really important initiative, and it's a really good example of how the federal government can play its role in collaboration not only with the provinces and territories, but also with other partners, basically to get information

Health committee  Thank you. We and government think that a really important instrument for reinforcing the strength of official language minority communities is the ability to have health services available in the language of one's choice. So between 2008 and 2013, Health Canada will invest more

Health committee  We are currently in discussions with the Province of British Columbia and with first nations in the province to try to reach a tripartite agreement on providing health services to first nations people there. We've had a bit of a delay because of the election. But we spoke to coll

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I will attempt to answer the questions. I would say, firstly, in French, that the government over the past four years has increased the base budget of the Canadian research institutes by somewhat more than $142 million. This year, these Canadian re

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I was going to turn to Ms. Robinson in a moment. I was going to start trying to answer a couple of these questions. In terms of some of the new investments the government has made, the 2009 budget invested $305 million over two years to strengthen nursin

Health committee  As you know, the government asked companies a couple of years ago to voluntarily limit the amount of trans fats they put in their foods. Our sense now is that 80% of the foods tested are under the 5% limit that was imposed. We had given notice at that time, two years ago, that in