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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 62
Thursday, February 4, 1999
The Standing Committee on Health met in a televised session at 9:00 a.m. this day, in Room 253-D, Centre Block, the Chair, Joseph Volpe, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Elinor Caplan, Ovid Jackson, Maria Minna, Bernard Patry, Karen Redman, Greg Thompson, Rose-Marie Ur, Maurice Vellacott, Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Acting Members present: Dr. Keith Martin for Grant Hill, Carole St-Hilaire for Bernard Bigras, Lynn Myers for Dan McTeague.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier and Sonya Norris, Research Officers.
Witnesses: Panel I: From the Canadian Transplant Society: Dr. Rolf Loertscher, President; From the Canadian Association of Transplantation: Jane Drew, President; Panel II: From the Canadian Liver Foundation: David Connell; From the The Kidney Foundation of Canada: Mary Catharine McDonnell, Volunteer - Chair, Link to Success Advisory Group; From the Parkinson's Foundation of Canada: Dr. J.M. Miyasaki, Neurology and Movement Disorders; Panel III: From the Canadian National Institute for the Blind: Gerard Grace, Vice-President, Marketing, Communication and Foundations; From the The Islet Foundation: Alastair T. Gordon, President; From the Bruce Denniston Bone Marrow Society: Dr. G. Campbell Hobson, President; From the Canadian Ophthalmological Society: Dr. Christopher Seamone, Member of the Eye Bank Committee; Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax: Jim Mohr, Manager, Transplantation Services.
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).
The witnesses from Panel I made statements and answered questions.
The witnesses from Panel II made statements and answered questions.
At 10:55 a.m., the sitting was suspended.
At 11:00 a.m., the sitting resumed.
The witnesses from Panel III made statements and answered questions.
At 12:00 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Marie Danielle Vachon
Clerk of the Committee