PolitiKit

Regulations, directives, and policies developed in regard to the off-road equipment sector.

Ongoing discussions with federal officials regarding Canada-US bilateral trade of construction, forestry, mining and agriculture equipment under the terms of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

Regulations, directives and policies developed under the Pest Control Products Act in regard to equipment and potential operator exposure.

Amendments to the Income Tax Act and Regulations which may affect agriculture and the tax treatment of capital expenditures on equipment.

Amendments to the Copyright Act and Competition Act and Regulations which may affect the service and operation of agriculture and construction equipment.

Strengthening equipment manufacturing in Canada through agreements with trading partners.

Programs and policies developed in regard to the off-road equipment sector (construction, forestry and agriculture).

Funding AI Scribes subscriptions for Family Doctors and establishing clear national standards for privacy, safety and responsible use.

Efforts to reducing administrative burden for family physicians by addressing federal health forms.

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.

Funds should be directed to supporting family practices, as part of the Federal government's Health Infrastructure Fund announced in Budget 2025.

National Security (1): Canada Community Security Program (CCSP): Sustained and recurrent funding and program optimization; support for life-saving protective measures for communities at risk, particularly the Jewish community; funding for capital security upgrades and training; and ongoing support for security guards and paid duty officers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Food and Drugs Act and regulations, as it relates to nciotine replacement products

Financial supports for caregivers, including the Canada Caregiver Credit

Approvals process for the launch of clinical trials in Canada including regulation, funding, the creation of intellectual property and commercialization in Canada for the purpose of pharmaceutical sovereignty, economic development and scientific innovation.

Access to information and support to make decisions regarding end-of-life care, including Medical Assistance In Dying

Engage Health and National Defence concerning Emergent's Winnipeg facility for the production of medical countermeasures.

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

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

Include Children’s Priorities in Nation-Building Investments : Asking for capital investments in the children’s healthcare system, including support for research, workforce planning, and the implementation of learning health systems.

Protect and expand capacity to deliver on Jordan’s Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative (a federal responsibility);

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).

Indigenous Healthcare, Non Insured Health Benefit (NIHB), ; restore coverage under the Non Insured Health Benefit program for the Indigenous peoples; improve healthcare for Indigenous populations

Expand Student Loan Forgiveness - include chiropractors in the Student Loan Forgiveness program to improve healthcare access in rural and underserviced communities

Disability Tax Credit - authorize chiropractors as assessors for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC)

Expand Student Loan Forgiveness - include chiropractors in the Student Loan Forgiveness program to improve healthcare access in rural and underserviced communities

Authorize Chiropractors as Assessors for the Disability Tax Credit - allow chiropractors to certify patients for the Federal Disability Tax Credit (DTC) reducing delays and increasing access.

Educating government on the importance of chiropractic care to provide better access to healthcare - chiropractors are Canada's largest community of regulated MSK experts, offering timely, evidence based, conservative care. MSK conditions are a leading cause of disabilityand healthcare costs, federal action is essential - chiropractic care supports workplace productivity - we want chiropractors to practice to their full scope and improve equitable access for all patients.

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.

Capital equipment (CT and MRI): Guide a dedicated investment of $2 billion over three years for radiology equipment to improve access to modern medical imaging equipment. Streamline the process for equipment installation and reduce the substantial associated labour costs.

Clinical decision support: Support the national integration of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems into electronic medical records (EMRs) to ensure that patients receive the right test at the right time.

Artificial Intelligence: Demonstrate leadership in AI by providing financial support for the Health Artificial Intelligence Validation Network (HAIVN) to improve the evaluation and regulation of AI in Canada as part of Health Canada’s Medical Devices Directorate regulatory process, for the purpose of improved healthcare, economic development and innovation in Canada.

Federal Budget - investment in First Nations communities for medical imaging equipment and access to radiologists to improve care for population