12-Month Lobbying Summary - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Climate
• Constitutional Issues
• Consumer Issues
• Education
• Elections
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Health
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Labour
• National Security/Security
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Taxation and Finance

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• Federal role in the health system as it relates to the use of federal spending power and the achievement of national objectives.
• Increase funding to modernize critical physical and digital health infrastructure to support the delivery of health services and health research and innovation.
• Increase investment and access to funding for health research, innovation, knowledge translation and commercialization.
• Strengthen the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer including through increased transfers to provinces and territories.

Policies or Program

• Allow direct access to federal funding for academic healthcare organizations (healthcare delivery organizations, research institutes and health authorities).
• Create a more equitable, diverse, inclusive and representative health system that reflects the Canadian population and serves the needs of all Canadians.
• Funding and programs to improve healthcare infrastructure energy efficiency and climate and pandemic resiliency.
• Funding, policies and programs related to clinical trials, medications/drugs and medical devices.
• Health services to populations falling under federal jurisdiction, like veterans and certain Indigenous people.
• Implement a national health human resources strategy to address staffing shortages and inadequate level of primary care providers and improve working conditions in the health system.
• Implement a national pharmacare program as per recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare.
• Implement measures and funding to prevent opioid addiction and overdoses, and to improve access to and implementation of appropriate harm reduction programs and treatments.
• Implement national standards for long-term care.
• Implement recommendations from the Industry Strategy Council's "Restart, recover, and reimagine prosperity for all Canadians" report, including policy and program changes and increasing investments in the health and biosciences sector.
• Improve Indigenous health services and access to care for Indigenous people, and continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations.
• Improve access and quality of palliative care.
• Improve the delivery of older adult care in Canada, including a shift to providing more home and community care and creating communities that allow for healthy aging.
• Mental health and well-being support and services for the health workforce and Canadian public.
• Secure an innovation supercluster in the health and life sciences so that this sector can be supported as one of Canada's world-leading innovation clusters.

• Subject matter details in previous versions

  Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

  • Research and Development, Innovation and Commercializations - That Canadian Institutes of Health Research A-base funding be increased to 1% of health care budget.

  Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program

  • Mental Health Commission of Canada: renew mandate for 10 years and double budget

  Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program

  • Increase support for a pan-canadian approach for key research priorities and scale, spread and evaluate stewardship of antimicrobial resistance.
  • Infrastructure money to include academic/research hospitals and academic regional health authorities. Previous stimulus packages excluded health care facilities.
  • Provide resources behind critical infrastructure and cyber security in the health sector.

  Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

  • Department of Finance Canada and Federal Budgets: The federal role in Canada's health system: the use of the federal spending power and national objectives - renewed and strengthened Equalization and Territorial formula, strengthened commitment to equal per capita cash support for the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer.
  • Excise Tax Act: The GST rebate for health services, Section 259 (1) (2) (3) (4.1), Section 123 (1).

  Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

  • Food and Drugs Act: Legislation and Regulations related to the re-use of single-use medical devices.

  Policies or Program

  • Canada Health Infoway: Electronic Health Record
  • Canadian Patient Safety Institute: Patient safety and quality improvement
  • Ensure that appropriate measures and funding are put in place to prevent opioid addiction and overdoses and access appropriate harm reduction programs and treatment.
  • Goods and Services Tax application to health research institutions under the MUSH formula be extended at the same rate of 83% to research institutes which form part of the research hospitals. CRA has a draft interpretation bulletin with respect to this.
  • Health Canada - Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources (ACHDHR): Health system employability - self sufficiency, internationally educated health professionals, and entry-to-practice credentials.
  • Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada: Aboriginal health. HealthCareCAN advocates on training and job opportunities for Aboriginal Canadians, programs to reduce chronic disease and support health promotion, funding for health services, sufficient health human resources, and improving living conditions such as clean water.
  • Increase the Goods and Services Tax rebate under the MUSH formula (Municipalities, Universities, Schools and Hospitals) for public health and health authorities from 83% to 100% of eligible costs.
  • International Relations: inform and monitor the diplomatic discussions between the federal government and Saudi Arabia which has direct consequences on medical residents working in hospitals and health organizations in Canada
  • Provide eligibility for research hospitals to compete for funds directed to reducing climate change and carbon footprint.
  • Science and Technology strategy - as part of a group of six stakeholder groups representing not-for-profit, public and private sectors, present a National Health Innovation Action plan for the health/life sciences sector.
  • The Order Amending the Order Respecting the Interim Federal Health Program (June 28, 2012) with respect to changes in health care for refugees and refugee claimants.

  Regulation

  • Secure an innovation supercluster in the health and life sciences so that this sector can be supported as one of Canada's world-leading innovation clusters.
  • Vanessa's Law C-17 Working with Government with respect to implementation framework in advance of regulations being finalized