PolitiKit

Advancing measures to meaningfully improve child and youth health and well-being outcomes through initatives to "right-size" children's healthcare.

Advancing a National Children's Strategy to advance child and youth health and well-being outcomes.

Fair & Equitable Access for Canadian Companies to Canadian Infrastructure Construction Projects: - Minimum Canadian Content - Procurement Bid Balancing - Climate/carbon procurement - Procurement Reciprocity

Build support and obtain grant funding for community service organizations in Canada.

Advocate for increased federal spending on climate action and infrastructure. We are advocating for the federal government to boost its climate spending to 2% of GDP, including increased transfers to provinces/territories/municipalities/Indigenous nations for climate infrastructure (public transit, renewable energy, zero-emission housing), and to fund a Youth Climate Corps.

Enacting legislative changes addressing the use of parental alienation accusations and associated pseudo-concepts in family law, to ensure safety for women and children who are victims of family violence. Stopping parental alienation accusations in family court.

Federal Budget with respect to sustained funding for WAGE and for Women's Rights organizations.

Advancing measures to meaningfully improve child and youth health and well-being outcomes through initatives to "right-size" children's healthcare.

Advancing federal and provincial health alignment around child and youth healthcare policies.

Encourager le gouvernement fédéral à mettre en place des mesures favorisant le commerce inter-provinces et l'harmonisation des réglementations concernant le transport maritime entre ces mêmes provinces.

Travailler avec Transports Canada, Environnement et Changement climatique Canada, Infrastructure Canada et Finances Canada pour assurer une application efficace des mesures de L’accélérateur net zéro telles que définis dans le Budget 2021 à la section 5.1 et en modifiant les dispositions du Règlement sur les combustibles propres, en visant la création d'un système de décarbonisation maritime propre au Canada qui mise sur la production, la distribution et l'utilisation de carburants renouvelables, notamment le biodiésel.

Assurer le maintien d'un contexte d'opérations optimal lors de l'application du Règlement sur l'eau de ballast : DORS/2021-120 paru dans la Gazette du Canada, Partie II, volume 155, numéro 13.

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.

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.

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.

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, ensuring that physicians are not captured in the definition of "promoters" in the Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Regulations, and advocacy on discontinuing the requirement that employees present sick notes to their employers.

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.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada, including adding inclusive lettering on health cards across Canada.

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.

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.

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.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada including adding inclusive lettering on health cards across Canada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Promote policies that increase access to telehealth solutions, including primary care and mental health through both private and public administration.

Healthcare policy and potential legislation relating to employee benefit programs and the cost of pharmaceuticals.

Comprehensive public policy reform to protect the environment and well-being, now and for the future.

Promotion des infrastructures publiques municipales de traitement de l'eau potable et des infrastructures. Notamment en accentuant le financement pour les mise à niveaux et les nouvelles installations. Accès à l'eau potable pour les communautés autochtones, promouvoir l'autonomisation des opérations et de la gestion par les communautés directement. C-61 et autres.

Enhance regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, such as developing a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.