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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 14
 
Thursday, September 21, 2006
 

The Standing Committee on Health met at 3:35 p.m. this day, in Room 237-C, Centre Block, the Chair, Rob Merrifield, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Dave Batters, Patricia Davidson, Nicole Demers, Rick Dykstra, Steven John Fletcher, Christiane Gagnon, Tina Keeper, Rob Merrifield and Penny Priddy.

 

Acting Members present: Omar Alghabra for Ruby Dhalla.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Marlisa Tiedemann, Analyst; Sonya Norris, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Public Health Agency of Canada: Gregory Taylor, Acting Director General, Centre For Chronic Disease Prevention and Control. Department of Health: Mary Bush, Director General, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Products and Food Branch; Kathy Langlois, Director General, Community Programs Directorate, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch; Janet Beauvais, Director General, Health Products and Food Branch, Food Directorate. Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Debra Bryanton, Executive Director, Food Safety. Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Diane T. Finegood, Scientific Director, Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed its study on Childhood Obesity.
 

Gregory Taylor, Mary Bush, Janet Beauvais, Kathy Langlois and Debra Bryanton made statements and, with Diane Finegood, answered questions.

 

At 5:26 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Carmen DePape
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
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