PolitiKit

Communicating the global significance of the Rogue District and the Valley gold project as a local, Yukon development that strengthens Canada’s mining sector through non-heap-leach processing methods.

Highlighting the socio-economic benefits of the Snowline Gold project for the region, and ensuring that infrastructure development provides positive long-term economic legacy for Yukon communities.

Communicating the global significance of the Rogue District and the Valley gold project as a local, Yukon development that strengthens Canada’s mining sector through non-heap-leach processing methods.

Building understanding within the federal government of the North Canol Infrastructure Improvement Project in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Highlighting the socio-economic benefits of the Snowline Gold project for the region, and ensuring that infrastructure development provides positive long-term economic legacy for Yukon communities.

Building understanding within the federal government of the North Canol Infrastructure Improvement Project in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

La Fédération souhaite engager des discussions au sujet des politiques et programmes de financement fédéral qui soutien les systèmes d'éducation en langue minoritaire ainsi que des paramètres qui encadrent ce financement.

Responding to global economic crises: Canada’s role and responsibilities

Canada’s international trade policy and international development policy around the world

Engagement with Canadian foreign policy and international assistance across global regions

Mactung tungsten project: its strategic value to Canada and its allies, its potential key role shoring up a vulnerable tungsten supply chain and the opportunity it presents to the Yukon Territory and Indigenous groups.

Building understanding within the federal government of the North Canol Infrastructure Improvement Project in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, as well as the need to upgrade the highway.

Advanced Payments Program: Permanently increase the interest-free portion of the Advanced Payments Program to $350,000, streamline administration requirements, and reverse AAFC's recent changes to lending policy requiring administrators to classify all clients as "high risk" for four years regardless of their credit standing.

CRA Guidelines for Canadian Exploration Expenses

Flow-through shares and the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit / Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit

climate change and midigation of Green house gass on dairy farms and the role of federal progams in promoting the use of best management programs that are in existance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING: Advancing the medical profession’s perspectives on medical assistance in dying.

ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN: Advocate for measures to alleviate the administrative burden on physicians and support their professional wellbeing, including investment to facilitate the development of EHRs and EMRs in Canada, improved remuneration for the completion of federal health forms, the development of a Federal Disability Benefit, ensuring that physicians are not captured in the definition of "promoters" in the Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Regulations, providing clarity and guidance on federal forms, and advocacy on discontinuing the requirement that employees present sick notes to their employers.

CANADIAN PHARMACEUTICAL STRATEGY: A national strategy to ensure all Canadian have access to safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs regardless of employment status or geography.

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.

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ACT (PIPEDA) PRIVACY PROTECTION OF HEALTH INFORMATION AND THE REGULATORY REVIEW: Improvement to privacy legislation to protect the privacy of health information.

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.

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.

NET ZERO: Advocate for sustainable health systems in Canada, including reaching net-zero emissions by 2050; advocate for the establishment of a national climate and health secretariat within the federal government to develop a pan-Canadian approach to addressing the impacts of climate change and health; and advocate for a targeted health infrastructure fund as part of the federal government’s long-term plan for public infrastructure.

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

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.

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.

Explaining the strategic value of the Mactung and Macpass projects to Canada and its allies, its potential key role shoring up a vulnerable tungsten supply chain and the opportunity it presents to the Yukon and Indigenous groups.

CIRNAC (and/or ISC) funding and program alignment for Indigenous and northern community energy capacity and participation Communications regarding Indigenous and northern priorities connected to remote energy systems initiatives, including contribution funding and program supports for community engagement, governance/decision support, training and workforce development, and Indigenous participation/benefits tied to NEI/CRES activities.

Support family doctors with teams, as that is a key enabler to providing high quality primary care

Connected Care for Canadians Act (BILL S-5) : Urging federal policy makers to adopt this legislation quickly and to ensure that it is supported by a robust set of regulations.

Fulfill key investments to support family doctors, promised by the Liberal Party during the 2025 Federal elections. This includes initiatives to provide admin burden relief, set up a new FP practice fund, and create new residency seats.

Provide CFPC's perspective on Federal Budget 2025's initiative to “Improving Access to Health Care in the Arctic and the North”.