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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 33
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
The Standing Committee on Health met at 3:41 p.m. this day, in Room 362, East Block, the Chair, Bonnie Brown, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Bonnie Brown, Colleen Beaumier, Brenda Chamberlain, Stan Dromisky, James Lunney, Rob Merrifield, Judy Sgro, Yolande Thibeault, Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Acting Members present: Preston Manning for Diane Ablonczy, Pauline Picard for Diane Bourgeois.
Other Member present: Gérard Binet.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Nancy Miller Chenier, Sonya Norris, and Monique Hébert, Research Officers.
Witnesses: From the University of Toronto: Bernard Dickens, Professor in Health Law and Policy, Chair in Biomedical Ethics, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, and the Joint Centre for Bioethics. From Queens University: Alison Harvison Young, Dean, Faculty of Law. From McGill University: Patrick Healy, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law.
The Committee resumed consideration of the draft legislation on Assisted Human Reproduction. (See Minutes or Proceedings dated Thursday, May 3, 2001, Meeting No. 13).
The witnesses each made a statement and answered questions.
James Lunney moved, -- That the Committee authorize the Clerk, in consultation with the researchers and subject to approval from the Chair, to prepare and promulgate a news release confirming the Committee’s decision, in response to the request of Ministers Rock, Pettigrew, Tobin and Vanclief, to study the issue of the labelling of genetically modified foods.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to unanimously.
It was agreed, -- That the Clerk be authorized to investigate the
possibility of a visit by the Committee to a local clinic utilizing
reproductive technologies during the week of October 28, 2001.
At 5:53 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Gary S. Sokolyk
Clerk(s) of the Committee