PolitiKit

Expand Mortgage Loan Insurance to address middle housing supply and ownership options. Add a fourth scoring category to MLI Select for missing middle rental supply, and establish a new sibling program, MLI Select-Ownership, applying the same proven points-based model to ownership-tenured housing, with a mandatory pillar for missing middle supply.

PUBLIC-PRIVATE HEALTHCARE: The CMA is conducting a series of in-person sessions across the country to engage key stakeholders, including the public, physicians, patients/PWLE, policymakers, system leaders and others, in a dialogue on public-private healthcare. What we hear will inform CMA policy moving forward, and our recommendations for action at a national level.

Real Estate Foundation of B.C. is engaging in discussions on the forthcoming National Water Security Strategy, led by the Canada Water Agency, with respect to the Strategy's recognition of the Watershed Security Fund as a proven model for Canada and a proven mechanism in B.C. to distribute watershed funding to communities, as well as the importance of the National Water Security Strategy being grounded in community and regional perspectives, and recognized not only as an environmental issue, but also a matter of economic security, community well-being and equity, national sovereignty, and reconciliation.

Advising on the climate, environmental, and economic risks of new bitumen pipelines and related fossil fuel industry expansion, and seeking to mitigate harms.

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.

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

The development of a national outdoor recreation satellite account within Statistics Canada to capture the economic and social contributions of the outdoor recreation sector. This will help governments and the sector to better understand it's contributions and how to best resource the sector.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

PUBLIC-PRIVATE HEALTHCARE: The CMA is conducting a series of in-person sessions across the country to engage key stakeholders, including the public, physicians, patients/PWLE, policymakers, system leaders and others, in a dialogue on public-private healthcare. What we hear will inform CMA policy moving forward, and our recommendations for action at a national level.