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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 16
Wednesday, February 16, 2000
The Standing Committee on Health met at 12:40 p.m. this day, in Room 112-N, Centre Block, the Chair, Lynn Myers, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Yvon Charbonneau, Bill Matthews, Ted McWhinney, Réal Ménard, Lynn Myers, Marcel Proulx, Karen Redman, Paul Szabo, Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Acting Members present: Irwin Cotler for Ovid Jackson
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier and Sonya Norris, Research Officers.
Witnesses: From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Pierre Richard, Executive Director, CIHR Transition Secretariat; David Hoye, Director of Policy and Goverment Relations, CIHR Transition Secretariat. From the Medical Research Council of Canada: Karen Mosher, Executive Director. From Justice Canada: Glenn Rivard, General Counsel.
Pursuant to its Order of Reference of Monday, November 29, 1999, the Committee resumed consideration of Bill C-13, An Act to establish the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to repeal the Medical Research Council Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (See Minutes of Proceedings, Thursday, December 2, 1999 , Meeting No. 8).
The Committee resumed Clause-by-Clause consideration of the Bill.
The Chair called Clause 31 and debate arose thereon.
After debate, the question being put, Clause 31 carried on division.
Clauses 32 to 52 carried severally on division.
By unanimous consent, Clause 1 carried.
The Chair called the preamble and debate arose thereon.
Yvon Charbonneau moved, -- That Bill C-13 be amended by replacing, in the French version, line 10 on page 2 with the following:
"en vue de coordonner, de canaliser et d'inté-"
After debate, the question being put on the amendment, it was carried on division.
After further debate, the preamble, as amended, was carried on division.
The title carried.
The Bill, as amended, carried.
ORDERED, -- That the Chair report Bill C-13 with amendments to the House as the First Report of the Committee.
ORDERED, -- That Bill C-13, as amended, be reprinted for use of the House of Commons at Report Stage.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee commenced consideration of the subject matter of Bill C-13, An Act to establish the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to repeal the Medical Research Council Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
It was agreed, -- That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee report the following recommendations to the House in relation to the subject matter of Bill C-13:
a) In light of the diversity of interests that must be balanced in achieving the objective of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Committee recommends that the Governing Council develop and implement appropriate conflict of interest guidelines for the agency, including the Institutes of Health Research.
b) The Committee recognizes that aboriginal health issues are of significant interest to Canadians and further recommends that the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research take this into consideration when establishing the institutes.
ORDERED, -- That the Chair report the recommendations to the House as the Second Report of the Committee.
It was agreed, -- That the Committee hold meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays only.
At 12:50 o'clock p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Roxanne Enman
Clerk of the Committee