Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology
First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001
Chair: The Honourable MICHAEL KIRBYThursday, November 1, 2001
Issue No. 40
Thirty-third meeting on: The state of the health care system in CanadaWITNESSES:
From the Association des optométristes du Québec:Dr. Langis Michaud, President;
Marie-Josée Crête, Deputy Director General;
Clairmont Girard, Advisor.
From the Collège des médecins du Québec:
Dr. Yves Lamontagne, President;
Dr. André Garon, Deputy Secretary General.
As an Individual:
Robert Dorion.
From the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association:
Mark Daniels, President;
Greg Traversy, Executive Vice-President;
Yves Millette, Senior Vice-President, Québec Affairs;
Frank Fotia, Vice-President, Group Insurance.
As Individuals:
Dr. Margaret A. Somerville, Acting Director, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, McGill University;
Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University.
From Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.:
Kevin Skilton, Director, Policy Planning;
Dr. Terrance Montague, Executive Director, Patient Health.
From l'Association québécoise des droits des retraités (AQDR):
Ann Gagnon, Advisor on Health;
Yollande Richer, Vice-President, Communications;
Myroslaw Smereka, Director General.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Michael Kirby, ChairThe Honourable Marjory LeBreton, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Callbeck, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cook, Di Nino, Keon, Léger, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Maheu, Morin, Pépin, Robertson, Roche.
* Ex Officio Members
(Quorum 4)