Finance committee  My understanding was that provinces could draw on this fund for new vaccine programs, based on their population, over a period of three years, yes.

Finance committee  Thirty seconds, okay, thank you. It varies from vaccine to vaccine and from time in history to time in history. I'm glad you raised the papillomavirus vaccine, because there's the chance of wiping out--virtually wiping out--cervical cancer using this vaccine and screening. That'

Finance committee  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We all believe that. So we should be investing in prevention. And it's worked. The data is unbelievable. In epidemic years, we had thousands of cases of measles and diphtheria, and now we have zero. It's remarkable. We actually ha

Finance committee  The reason we're here today is to ensure that the routine immunizations that can protect all children are available to all children across Canada. When new vaccines become available, and there's been a flurry of them, and there will be more because the vaccine technology is explo

Finance committee  That's the problem. As I understood it, this was a three-year trust fund that was set up. The governments could draw upon it to start implementing vaccine programs for chicken pox vaccine, for meningitis vaccine, for pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine, and for the new pertussis vacci

Finance committee  I've not heard any indication. We have not heard any indication that there will be any continuation of it.

Finance committee  Well, I suppose. This is one of the issues. We don't know what's happening with it and—

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, members of the Standing Committee on Finance, thank you very much for allowing us to speak today on the importance of investing in vaccines for our children. I'm the medical officer of health for the Kingston area. I'd like to acknowledge my colleague from the coalit