PolitiKit

Secure Federal funding for and greater collaboration with the Toronto Zoo animal reproduction labs.

FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.

INTEGRATED HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES: Advocate for an Integrated Health Human Resources Strategy, including creating retention incentives and addressing administrative burden for health care professionals, increasing the number of doctors and nurses and ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary health team, increasing access to virtual care, creating an action plan to get internationally trained health care professionals to work, improving workforce data collection across health systems and investing in a supply needs-based planning tool, and facilitating team-based health care.

HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs, including measures to address the opioid crisis and the regulation of natural health products.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND RECONCILIATION WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Implementation of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including addressing the ongoing structural inequities that marginalize Indigenous Peoples, advancing the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in societal systems and sectors, including health systems, and committing to collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities. The CMA is also advocating to increase trust between Indigenous patients and health care providers, and to eliminate racism, inequitable access to care, and the ongoing harm caused to those within Canada’s health care system.

PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL SAFETY: Advocate to address the challenges and opportunities for physical, psychological and cultural safety within Canada’s health system, including the implementation of a nation-wide anti-racism plan, the creation of a Canada Mental Health transfer, improving access to mental health services to physicians and their families, gender-affirming care, creating an emergency National Mental Health Support Services hotline for all health care providers, the creation of a National Physicians Day in Canada, ensuring safe and unimpeded access to health care facilities for health care workers and patients.

TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: provide CMA’s perspective on the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector and the means through which advancements can be foreseen and managed.

BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.

MEDICAL MIS/DISINFORMATION: Provide CMA’s perspective on the impacts of medical misinformation and disinformation, including on public trust in science, medicine, and public health experts.

HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs, including measures to address the opioid crisis, mental health and addictions, and the regulation of natural health products.

BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.

PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL SAFETY: Advocate to address the challenges and opportunities for physical, psychological and cultural safety within Canada’s health system, including the implementation of a nation-wide anti-racism plan, the creation of a Canada Mental Health transfer, improving access to mental health services to physicians and their families, gender-affirming care, creating an emergency National Mental Health Support Services hotline for all health care providers, the creation of a National Physicians Day in Canada, ensuring safe and unimpeded access to health care facilities for health care workers and patients.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND RECONCILIATION WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Implementation of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including addressing the ongoing structural inequities that marginalize Indigenous Peoples, advancing the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in societal systems and sectors, including health systems, and committing to collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities. The CMA is also advocating to increase trust between Indigenous patients and health care providers, and to eliminate racism, inequitable access to care, and the ongoing harm caused to those within Canada’s health care system.

TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: provide CMA’s perspective on the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector and the means through which advancements can be foreseen and managed.

FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.

INTEGRATED HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES: Advocate for an Integrated Health Human Resources Strategy, including creating retention incentives and addressing administrative burden for health care professionals, increasing the number of doctors and nurses and ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary health team, increasing access to virtual care, creating an action plan to get internationally trained health care professionals to work, improving workforce data collection across health systems and investing in a supply needs-based planning tool, and facilitating team-based health care.

PAN CANADIAN LICENSURE: Advocate for the ability for physicians with full licences to practise independently without restrictions or for medical resident trainees registered in any Canadian jurisdiction to practise or train in any other Canadian jurisdiction without having to acquire more than one licence or pay additional licensing fees. This includes exploring enabling legislation in the provinces and territories.

TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: provide CMA’s perspective on the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector and the means through which advancements can be foreseen and managed.

BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.

FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.

TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: provide CMA’s perspective on the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector and the means through which advancements can be foreseen and managed.

FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.

PAN CANADIAN LICENSURE: Advocate for the ability for physicians with full licences to practise independently without restrictions or for medical resident trainees registered in any Canadian jurisdiction to practise or train in any other Canadian jurisdiction without having to acquire more than one licence or pay additional licensing fees. This includes exploring enabling legislation in the provinces and territories.

BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.

DIGITAL HEALTH: Increased investment in providing digital, virtual and telehealth services.

INTEGRATED HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES Advocate for an Integrated Health Human Resources Strategy, including creating retention incentives and addressing administrative burden for health care professionals, increasing the number of doctors and nurses and ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary health team, increasing access to virtual care, creating an action plan to get internationally trained health care professionals to work, improving workforce data collection across health systems and investing in a supply needs-based planning tool, and facilitating team-based health care.

HEALTH DATA INTEROPERBILITY: Provide CMA’s perspective as it relates to health data interoperability that would ensure providers have access to the right information at the right time when providing care, and improve patient outcomes and their health care experience.

FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.

BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.

Food & Drug Regulations, pertaining to beer and alcoholic beverages.

Canada Disability Benefit – program design, implementation, and adequacy. Discussions with federal officials regarding the implementation of the Canada Disability Benefit, including benefit levels, eligibility pathways, administrative access, and interactions with provincial disability assistance programs.

Disability Tax Credit – eligibility criteria and administration. Engagement with federal officials regarding eligibility rules, certification requirements, reassessment processes, and administrative barriers affecting access to the Disability Tax Credit.

Communicating with government officials about potential collaboration between (i) the company, (ii) the federal government and (iii) Indigenous communities (including the Pasqua First Nation) and corporations (including Apeiron Resources Ltd.) on clean technology manufacturing, such as Zero Voltage Switching ("ZVS") grid-tied power inverters. The goal of these communications is to secure agreements, contracts and/or memoranda of understanding.

Communicating with government officials, in general, about clean technology manufacturing, including as it relates to high-efficiency power conversion systems for AI data centres, energy storage, remote microgrids and critical infrastructure.

Federal energy policies and programs affecting Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including energy affordability, energy resilience, home heating fuel choice, and the role of gaseous and solid fuel heating appliances in Canada's energy system.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.

Federal financial assistance and investment incentives to support Canadian hearth and barbecue manufacturers affected by tariffs, including measures to maintain domestic manufacturing capacity, investment, and industry competitiveness.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal energy policies and programs affecting Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including energy affordability, energy resilience, home heating fuel choice, and the role of gaseous and solid fuel heating appliances in Canada's energy system.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal energy policies and programs affecting Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including energy affordability, energy resilience, home heating fuel choice, and the role of gaseous and solid fuel heating appliances in Canada's energy system.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.

Federal policies and programs affecting the competitiveness of Canada's hearth and barbecue industry, including Canadian manufacturing, international and interprovincial trade, tariffs, supply chains, and economic development.

Federal housing, energy retrofit, and consumer appliance replacement policies and programs, including the design and eligibility criteria of existing and proposed rebate programs and the inclusion of hearth appliances in appliance replacement and energy efficiency initiatives.