Helena Jaczek

Thank you, Chair. Could I ask the member opposite why this rather extreme measure is seen to be necessary, from his point of view? I'm relatively new to this committee, so maybe I missed something.

Thank you so much, Chair. To reorient the discussion and remind all our witnesses, the study is to develop recommendations on how Canada can best promote pharmaceutical sovereignty. To return to that subject, my first question is for Mr. Keon. Canada is responsible for direct health services for the armed forces and for indigenous populations. Would you recommend that Canada look directly at [more]

Ms. Creighton, would you like to comment on possible procurement practices?

Thank you. Ms. Creighton, I think you made some comments, or expressed concerns, about our government's new initiatives for regulating Health Canada, trying to modernize the whole regulatory process and speed it up, and moving towards greater international collaboration and reliance, including the ability to rely on assessments by foreign regulators while maintaining Canadian standards for [more]

Mr. Speaker, March 4 is World Obesity Day, and we should be aware of the serious situation that Canada is facing. In 1981, just 9% of Canadians lived with obesity. Now, according to a recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, this has risen to roughly a third of Canadians. We have one of the highest rates of obesity in the OECD. What is troubling is that obesity is a strong [more]