PolitiKit

Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions

Communications regarding transportation policy, bilateral air transport agreements, and international trade

Canada Labour Code, Part I: Industrial relations

Attracting and Retaining a Strong Tourism Workforce – TIAC supports the creation and optimization of policy and programs aimed at building a robust and diverse workforce across the country and redressing labour volatility. TIAC also advocates for a strong tourism workforce via regulations and policies in regard to employment, housing, and immigration.

Ensuring a diverse and equatable tourism sector - TIAC’s efforts on this front include monitoring and raising policy issues that directly affect Indigenous tourism development with a goal of empowering Indigenous communities in generating their own economies while also providing Canadians and foreign visitors alike the opportunity to connect with Indigenous peoples and to experience their unique and diverse culture in a deeply meaningful way.

Promoting Industry Competitiveness – TIAC promotes optimal support for the competitiveness of Canada’s tourism companies via public grants, tax credits, repayable financing contributions and policies and programs that augment entrepreneurship, innovation and investment.

Access for Visitors to Canada – TIAC supports the efficient movement of travellers to and within Canada through enhancements to temporary residency policies and entry program requirements (including the visitor visa and electronic travel authorization processes) in order to meet international demand for travel to Canada.

Building a Regenerative Tourism Industry – TIAC works with government to support a tourism sector that is more resilient and sustainable through priority investment in regenerative and eco-tourism.

Transportation and connectivity - TIAC also works to ensure that regulations and policies related to transportation, air travel, waterways and ports of entry are developed and implemented to optimally connect, and not impede, domestic and international travellers to urban and rural destinations, key attractions, sporting events, and business meetings in Canada.

Federal housing policies, programs, and regulatory frameworks affecting the supply and affordability of housing in Canada, including initiatives that support increased residential construction, innovative building approaches, and the use of Canadian wood products in sustainable and efficient housing development.

Expand the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness Program to include front-line allied health care professionals, such as Doctors of Chiropractic.

Ensure that the Canadian Armed Forces paid education programs in health care include chiropractic.

Inclusion of chiropractors as recognized qualified practitioners to issue the Disability Tax Credit Certificate(T2201).

Share policy recommendations around the environmental impacts of anesthesia practices to reduce emissions and improve waste management.

Communicating with and arranging meetings with Public Office Holders to discuss the benefits of removing GST on all food in Canada

Advocating for sustained federal funding to support investments in public infrastructure.

Discussion of items in pre-budget submission.

SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity.

DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

Supply management system as it relates to the chicken sector.

Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

Create a national licensure framework for nurses

Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

Seeking support for a Healthy Homes Tax Credit that includes providing a tax credit for Radon Mitigation and Residential Air Filtration Units.

Seeking recognition that vaping and nicotine use are key points of initiation for youth (not harm reduction) and the commitment to review the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, specifically to include the integration of nicotine reduction targets (such as the federal 5% by 2035 goal) into all relevant national policies and mandates.

Seeking the commission of a comprehensive report to define the scale and understand the impact of respiratory health issues using reliable data to identify urgent gaps, set clear national targets, and lay the foundation for tracking measurable progress towards improving respiratory health.

Discussing trade challenges affecting countries around the world in relation to Canada's trade interests with focus on the enhancement of the forest sector (e.g. tariff and non-tariff measures).

Support for the transformation of the forest sector, including any impact on current or future regulations or policy initiatives. .

Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act – Ensure sensible rules for natural health products. Address prohibition on sampling of natural health products directly to the consumer. Implication of Health Canada’s proposed Consumer Health Products Framework. Consideration of the 53 recommendations made in 1998 by the Standing Committee on Health.