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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011

Chair: The Honourable KELVIN KENNETH OGILVIE

Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Issue No. 3

First, second and third meetings on:

Examining the progress in implementing the 2004 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care

WITNESSES

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations:

Christine Power, Chair, Board of Directors;

Glenn Brimacombe, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Wait Time Alliance:

Dr. Chris Simpson, Chair;

Stephen Vail, Director, Policy and Research.

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences:

Dr. Michael Schull, Senior Scientist.

As an individual:

Dr. Brian Postl, Dean of Medicine, University of Manitoba.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada:

Dr. Andrew Padmos, Chief Executive Officer;

Danielle Fréchette, Director, Office of Health Policy.

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada:

Jean-François LaRue, Director General, Labour Market Integration;

Marc LeBrun, Director General, Canada Student Loans.

Health Canada:

Robert Shearer, Acting Director General, Health Care Programs and Policy Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch;

Shelagh Jane Woods, Director General Primary Health Care and Public Health Directorate, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

Société Santé en français:

Dr. Brian Conway, President.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Canadian Healthcare Association:

Pamela Fralick, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Canadian Cancer Society:

Daniel Demers, Director, National Public Issues.

Canadian Home Care Association:

Nadine Henningsen, Executive Director.

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association:

Sharon Baxter, Executive Director.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, Chair

The Honourable Art Eggleton, P.C., Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Braley, Callbeck, Champagne, P.C., Cordy, *Cowan (or Tardif), Demers, Rivard, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Martin, Merchant, Seidman, Verner, P.C.

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Rivard, replaced the Honourable Senator Demers (October 5, 2011).

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