House Health Committee calls for a national breast implant registry

Canada is the only G7 country without a national breast implant registry. March 29 marked the 120-day deadline for the government to respond to the House Health Committee’s recommendations for such a registry.

Health Minister Mark Holland told the House Health Committee last month that he was committed to creating a breast implant registry.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MAGDELENE CRESKEY

April 15, 2024

At the March 21 House Health Committee meeting on the Hill, Bloc Québécois MP Luc Thériault confronted Health Minister Mark Holland about the government’s plan to establish a breast implant registry, bluntly asking, “Are you going to do it?”

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