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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 64
Thursday, February 11, 1999
The Standing Committee on Health met in a televised session at 9:12 a.m. this day, in Room 253-D, Centre Block, the Chair, Joseph Volpe, presiding.
Member(s) of the Committee present: Elinor Caplan, Reed Elley, Ovid Jackson, Maria Minna, Pauline Picard, Karen Redman, Maurice Vellacott.
Acting Member(s) present: Wendy Lill for Judy Wasylycia-Leis; Gurmant Grewal for Grant Hill.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier; Sonya Norris, Research Officers.
Witness(es):From the New Brunswick Organ and Tissue Procurement Program: Ann Secord, Transplant Coordinator; From the Nova Scotia Multi-Organ Transplant Program: Dr. A.S. MacDonald, Director; From the Newfoundland O.P.E.N. Program: Max Bishop, Director; From the Quebec Transplant: Donald Langlais, Director; From the M.O.R.E. Ontario: Graham W.S. Scott, Chair; From the Manitoba Transplant Program: Dr. John Jeffery, Head, Section of Nephrology; From the Saskatchewan Transplant Program: Bette Boechler, Program Manager; From the H.O.P.E. Program, Alberta: Dr. N.M. Kneteman, Director, Liver Transplantation.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108 (2), the Committee resumed consideration of its study on the State of Organ and Tissue Donation in Canada. (See Minutes of Proceedings dated Tuesday, December 1, 1998).
Graham Scott, Max Bishop, Ann Secord and Dr. A.S. MacDonald each made statements and answered questions.
At 10:33 a.m., the sitting was suspended.
At 10:37 a.m., the sitting resumed.
Dr. N.M. Kneteman, Donald Langlais, Bette Boechler and Dr. John Jeffery each made statements and answered questions.
At 11:50 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Marie Danielle Vachon
Clerk(s) of the Committee