PolitiKit

Changes to the Canada Labour Code and related regulations and consultations on the Right to Strike (S.107), medical leave and other provisions of the Code.

Food4Kids Muskoka is providing expert support for food security policies, poverty reduction strategies, and the National School Food Program.

Changes to Student aid and Grants to ensure equitable access to regulated career colleges in budget 2025 and its impact on NACC members.

Private Career Colleges are not eligible to have students apply for Post Graduate Worker Permits. The NACC would like to see this changed as it believes their students are being disadvantaged and discriminated against. To do this there must be a directive from the ministerial level that will allow for post graduate students to make application for the worker permits.

Discussing opportunities and alignment of WCG Services priorities with those of the Government of Canada, including potential partnerships, pilots, or expanded service delivery.

Disability Tax Credit with respect to making it refundable and ensuring eligibility for Canadians with episodic disabilities

Comprehensive disability income programs, with respect to persons with MS and other chronic and episodic disabilities

Federal Budget: Allocate funding for the Canada Disability Benefit, the Employment Insurance Sickness Benefit; health research; access to treatment and care; and other budgetary policy as it relates to MS.

Home care, with respect to creation with provincial/ territorial governments programs relating to increased home care for persons with MS and other disabilities/ diseases and the support of caregivers

We ask the federal government to fund MS research in partnership with MS Canada, leveraging our connections and expertise to focus and further our understanding of MS, pursue leading-edge research on repair and regeneration, and explore prevention strategies, including targeting the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).

Access to treatments as it relates to the current regulatory and price negotiation processes to enhance timely access to all Health Canada approved MS disease-modifying therapies, with respect to the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases and national pharmacare.

Canada Health Act and regulations, as it relates to long-term and home care

Participate in all relevant policy discussions about skills training and work-integrated learning; upskilling and reskilling policies, programs and funding; apprenticeship training, attraction, retention and completion, including on federal projects.

Student housing; funding to support equipment purchase for training in high-demand fields, infrastructure programs geared to the post-secondary sector.

Canada Pension Plan – Disability with respect to eligibility for persons with MS and other chronic and episodic disabilities

Comprehensive disability income programs, with respect to persons with MS and other chronic and episodic disabilities

Federal Budget: Allocate funding for the Canada Disability Benefit, the Employment Insurance Sickness Benefit; health research; access to treatment and care; and other budgetary policy as it relates to MS.

We ask the federal government to fund MS research in partnership with MS Canada, leveraging our connections and expertise to focus and further our understanding of MS, pursue leading-edge research on repair and regeneration, and explore prevention strategies, including targeting the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).

Home care, with respect to creation with provincial/ territorial governments programs relating to increased home care for persons with MS and other disabilities/ diseases and the support of caregivers

Disability Tax Credit with respect to making it refundable and ensuring eligibility for Canadians with episodic disabilities

Bill C-64, An Act Respecting Pharmacare with respect for persons with MS and other chronic conditions and disabilities

Access to treatments as it relates to the current regulatory and price negotiation processes to enhance timely access to all Health Canada approved MS disease-modifying therapies, with respect to the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases and national pharmacare.

Canada Health Act and regulations, as it relates to long-term and home care

Transportation – Aviation related policies, legislation and regulations, such as the Air Passenger Rights Regulations. Transport - Politiques, législations et réglementations liées à l’industrie du transport aérien telles que le règlement sur la protection des passagers aériens.

Respond to consultations and advocate for change to international student policy; consider how polytechnics/colleges support inward and outward student mobility; consider international best practices for workforce development and applied research; better integration of newcomers through credential recognition, prior learning recognition and upskilling.

Highly skilled workforce; in-demand occupations.

Canada Revenue Agency Rules and Regulations as it pertains to auditing charities

Policies or programs related to access to care and potential treatments for the ALS Community.

CFIB is advocating for the return of the amount promised to small businesses as part of the carbon rebate and seeks to eliminate the carbon tax in the future.

Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shares its suggestions for Budget 2025 focusing on: reducing Employment Insurance premiums for small businesses; reducing taxes, red tape and barriers to internal trade; and revisiting the proposed capital gains tax changes.

CFIB supports lower EI rates for small business employers and encourages the adoption of EI training credit for new employees.