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

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011

Chair: The Honourable KELVIN KENNETH OGILVIE

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 (in camera)
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Issue No. 7

Ninth meeting on:
Examining the progress in implementing the 2004 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care

and

Second meeting on:
The accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada

INCLUDING:
THE SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Budget 2011-12 — 2004 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care)
and
THE THIRD REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Budget 2011-12 — The accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada)

• Minutes of Proceedings - November 16, 2011 (in camera)
• Minutes of Proceedings - November 17, 2011
• Second Report
• Third Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - November 17, 2011 (99K)

WITNESSES

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples:

Betty Ann Lavallée, National Chief;

Barbara Van Haute, Director of Population Health.

Health Canada:

Valerie Gideon, Director General, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

Assembly of First Nations:

Jonathan Thompson, Director, Health and Social Secretariat.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami:

Elizabeth Ford, Director, Health and Social Development;

Udloriak Hanson, Special Advisor to the President.

Native Women's Association of Canada:

Erin Corston, Director of Health.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, Chair

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

and

The Honourable Senators:

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

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

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

The Honourable Senator Martin replaced the Honourable Senator Meighen (November 16, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Dyck replaced the Honourable Senator Peterson (November 16, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Peterson replaced the Honourable Senator Dyck (November 16, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Meighen replaced the Honourable Senator Martin (November 16, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Hubley replaced the Honourable Senator Callbeck (November 14, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Callbeck replaced the Honourable Senator Hubley (November 3, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Cordy replaced the Honourable Senator Campbell (November 3, 2011).