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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 52
Thursday, October 29, 1998
The Standing Committee on Health met at 9:05 a.m. this day, in Room 371, West Block, the Chair, Joseph Volpe, presiding.
Member(s) of the Committee Committee present: Elinor Caplan, Aileen Carroll, Reed Elley, Grant Hill, Ovid Jackson, Maria Minna, Robert D. Nault, Denis Paradis, Pauline Picard, Greg Thompson, Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Acting Member(s) present: Lynn Myers for Dan McTeague.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier and Gérald Lafrenière, Research Officers.
From the Committees and Legislative Services: Suzanne Verville, Legislative Clerk.
Appearing: Elinor Caplan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health.
Witness(es): Round Table I: From the Canadian Cancer Society: Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst; From the Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada: Cynthia Callard, Executive Director; From "La fédération québécoise du sport étudiant, Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches": Gilles Lépine, Directeur général.
Round Table II: From the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control: Louis Gauvin, Co-ordinator; From "Info-tabac": Denis Côté, Co-ordinator.
Round Table III: From the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers' Council (CTMC): Rob Parker, President and C.E.O.
The Order of Reference dated Tuesday, October 20, 1998, being read as follows:
Ordered, -- That Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Tobacco Act, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health.
The Chair called Clause I.
The Parliamentary Secretary made a statement.
The witnesses from Round Table I made statements and answered questions.
At 10:21 a.m. Reed Elley took the Chair.
At 10:25 a.m. Joseph Volpe took the Chair.
At 10:30 a.m. the sitting was suspended.
At 10h35 a.m. the sitting resumed.
The witnesses from Round Table II made statements and answered questions.
At 10:20 a.m. the sitting was suspended.
At 10:27 a.m. the sitting resumed.
The witness from Round Table III made a statement and answered questions.
At 12:15 p.m. the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Marie Danielle Vachon
Clerk of the Committee