PolitiKit

Interest in implementing actions to provide Canadians with more control over their financial health, including financial literacy; establishing an open banking system in Canada.

Discussion on the intangible economy, SR&ED, and economic growth as it relates to domestic expenditures for intellectual property filing, as well as a focus on small and medium-sized companies.

Defence & Security: advocate for a domestic-focused cybersecurity ecosystem that has Canadian companies at the centre of a national cybersecurity defence policy.

Advocating for upholding Canada's commitments to international human rights.

A bill to formally recognize men's health week - Movember is seeking to have a Member of Parliament introduce a bill that would recognize men's health week occurring on the week starting on the second Monday of June.

Official Languages Support Programs - Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Second Language Learning Component - Seeking funding for socio-cultural activities, employment and training and other initiatives in French Second Language programs to increase learning and use of French.

National Caregiving Strategy

Access to palliative care, as it relates to programs offered through Health Canada, Indigenous Services Canada, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada, the Department of National Defence, and Employment and Social Development Canada.

Tobacco and Vaping Products Act and regulations, including ingredients, promotion, packaging/labelling, product regulation, reporting and enforcement and any other aspect.

Health Human Resource Strategy: Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy. Discussion includes health human resources planning, health human resource crisis, workforce planning, workforce shortages, scope of practice.

Scope of Practice: Physiotherapy scope of practice, skill-set optimization, value for physiotherapy, economic impact.

Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy as a non-pharmacological care, as an upstream and early intervention and prevention response to the opioid crisis

Value for physiotherapy in diverse sectors such as primary care. Discussion includes physiotherapy access, expansion of services and scope of practice.

Addressing the high cost of living and investing in affordable housing

Investing in Employment Insurance, care workers, unionized jobs and strong workplace standards

To promote the renewal of the Tax-deferred Co-operative Share Program to help agricultural co-operatives meet their capitalization needs and remain a viable option for agribusinesses while allowing Canadian co-operatives to be stronger in the face of international competitors.

Educating Parliamentarians and public servants on the co-operative model, the advantages and challenges faced by co-ops. Lack of awareness causes oversight and issues in programs and policies, when co-operatives should have access to the Business support and other programs offered by, or supported by, the government.

Establishing a Canadian Co-operative Capacity Building Program (CCBP) equipped with federal funding to help co-operatives either start up, scale up, gain skills and expertise, and or prepare for their next steps.

Carbon Rebate for Small Business - Ensuring that co-operatives and credit unions are qualify, as they are currently excluded.

Ensuring increased support to co-operatives and social enterpries, as underserved business models, by the BDC. As per the recent Legislative Review, co-operatives are significantly underserved by the BDC.

Federal framework and action plan on antimicrobial us and antimicrobial resistance.

ANAC is participating in consultations and dialogue with Health Canada looking at Veterinary Drugs Regulations and Policy changes as it relates to animal nutrition and feed production.

Federal Budget - government to take a leadership role in artificial intelligence in radiology for the purpose of improved healthcare and economic development and innovation in Canada

Federal Budget - funding and leadership for government with respect to Clinical Decision Support Systems and better access to current medical imaging referral guidelines

Work to ensure that the income tax act does not put insurance companies at a competitive disadvantage.