Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Monsieur Bouchard. The issue of the quantity of money that has to go into creating a dental education is very concerning to us, because if it is only the affluent who can afford to get into these programs, then it is going to change the culture of the profes

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, if Mr. Lessard would like some replies to his questions, are we able to provide them in writing through you?

Human Resources committee  Well, at the moment, as I outlined in my presentation, we have a very extensive credentialing program that is made available to any and all foreign-credentialed people coming to the country. Certainly the profession is ready, willing, and able to work with any agency that is put

Human Resources committee  Primarily this is owing to institutional underfunding of dental programs, which necessitates high student fees. Dentistry is simply a very expensive program to operate. Our concern is ultimately the sticker shock of tuition fees that are in the neighbourhood of $32,000 a year. Th

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Wayne Halstrom. I'm the president of the Canadian Dental Association, and I welcome the opportunity to speak to you today about employability and human resources in dentistry. I am joined at t

Information & Ethics committee  We would be concerned about any use of that, but they can only have information on the procedure that was done on a given tooth or in a given quadrant. It's specific to the work that was done, not to the overall health record.

Information & Ethics committee  I think one of the great benefits of enshrining the parts of the program would be to put some teeth in the whole question of this consent issue. I agree with you, and I've seen for years the whole question of, how valuable is an informed consent that you have from a patient who h

Information & Ethics committee  Only through the activity of a complaint to the college.... The regulatory body would be in a position to demand any information relative to patient care, but the private health record of the patient is not made available to the insurer.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. It's exactly the same in dentistry. The self-regulation aspect is very clear on that, and it is forcefully enforced.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I would like to take the issue back to the adoption of electronic communications in dental offices. One of the things we can expect to happen as these events unfold is.... We are finding that the younger practitioners, people coming out of dental schools and going into pra

Information & Ethics committee  One of the great concerns we have is administrative burden in general, and you're absolutely correct that there are a number of laws that affect us—certainly the ethical and regulatory things that apply from province to province, sometimes not necessarily consistently. So it is

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting the Canadian Dental Association to speak to you today during the statutory review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, which we commonly refer to as PIP