HEAL Committee Report

(Meeting No. 52)

The Standing Committee on Health met in camera at 12:41 p.m. this day, in Room 536, Wellington Building, the Chair, Bonnie Brown, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Bonnie Brown, André Bachand, Colleen Beaumier, Jeannot Castonguay, Brenda Chamberlain, Stan Dromisky, Réal Ménard, Rob Merrifield, Hélène Scherrer, Judy Sgro, Yolande Thibeault, Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

Acting Member present: Preston Manning for Diane Ablonczy.

Associate Member present: Preston Manning.

In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier, Sonya Norris, François Côté and Monique Hébert, research officers.

The Committee resumed consideration of a draft report on the proposal on Assisted Human Reproduction. (See Minutes of Proceedings dated Thursday, May 3, 2001, Meeting No. 13.)

It was agreed — That the Chair be authorized to make such typographical and editorial changes as may be necessary without changing the substance of the Report.

It was agreed — That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request the Government to table a comprehensive response to the report within 150 days.

It was agreed — That the draft report, as amended, on the Committee’s study of the draft proposal on Assisted Human Reproduction pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), be adopted as the Committee’s Second Report, and that the Chair present the said report to the House.