Finance committee  Yes, sure, because $270 million is $300 million and more, because you have to be conscious that it's not only cervical cancer, there are all those abnormal pap smears that affect the situation. You all have relatives, wives, daughters, or sisters who've been in our colposcopy cli

Finance committee  None. The only thing that's been done so far is a pilot project in Alberta where they looked at Canadian data. We have to be concerned in Canada that the costs are much lower than anywhere else for IVF. What was done was that by recognizing that it was a health problem, everyth

Finance committee  They all do.

Finance committee  No, they all do it now. The good thing about having only four clinics doing IVF in Quebec is that all the standards and protocols respect the guidelines.

Finance committee  If it's recognized as a disease, then I think it should be taken care of as all other diseases are. You know, we don't ask women who have premature babies because of IVF to pay for the treatment of their babies. It's forever been a crack in the health care system that we've said

Finance committee  It depends on the position you want to take. We can let the provinces take on the burden of decreeing what is important for the women in that province. To my mind, if we have a Canadian vision, women from coast-to-coast should have access to the same standards. For example,with

Finance committee  Absolutely. We are an organization dedicated to defending women's rights. We will try in every way possible to have contemporary, comparable health care to that provided in other countries these days. When we as doctors, and especially as specialists, go in tertiary centres in

Finance committee  My name is Diane Francoeur and I am the President of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Quebec. Our association represents all doctors specializing in these fields, and we consider ourselves as experts on women's health in Quebec. In addition, we have many ties