12-Month Lobbying Summary - In-house Organization

Canadian Physiotherapy Association/Association canadienne de physiotherapie / KRISSY MURPHY, Chief Executive Officer

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Active - Last Updated: 2024-04-24

Who is lobbying?

Canadian Physiotherapy Association/Association canadienne de physiotherapie (Address, activities & membership)

KRISSY MURPHY, Chief Executive Officer

Received government funding or funding expected in current financial year

What is being lobbied?

Subject Matter Details

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
Subject matters	Details	Categories
Affaires autochtones, Budget, Emploi et formation, Marchés publics, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Santé, Travail	Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program. This includes NHIB, orthotics, medical devices, coverage.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Marchés publics, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Santé, Travail	Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan - changes to financial supports provided in response to COVID-19 pandemic to ensure physiotherapists are included in supports, regardless of business models in place. Programs of interest include Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, Canada Emergency Business Account and Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Marchés publics, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Santé, Travail	Canada's response to COVID-19 pandemic: ensure personal protective equipment is available to physiotherapists working in all health care settings.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Santé	Caseload Guidelines: Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology. Including research regarding physiotherapy specific caseload guidelines.	Subvention, Contribution ou autre avantage financier
Affaires autochtones, Budget, Emploi et formation, Infrastructure, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Santé, Travail	Enable support and funding for those communities that could potentially benefit most from telerehabilitation and virtual services, including Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis and rural and remote populations, where infrastructure may presently exclude them from access (no cellular or internet service/access). Discussion on equity of access to physiotherapy services.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Recherche et développement, Santé, Travail	Health Human Resource Strategy: Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy. Discussion includes health human resources planning, health human resource crisis, workforce planning, workforce shortages, scope of practice.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Recherche et développement, Santé, Travail	Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy as a non-pharmacological care, as an upstream and early intervention and prevention response to the opioid crisis	Politique ou Programme
Affaires étrangères, Budget, Emploi et formation, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Relations internationales, Santé, Travail	Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Questions touchant les consommateurs, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Relations internationales, Santé, Travail	Raise awareness about the role of physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare and educate policymakers on how physiotherapy can help reduce healthcare costs, maximize current spending and funding allocation through physiotherapy skill optimization, support preventative care and contribute to a healthier Canadian population at all stages of life.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Santé, Travail	Scope of Practice: Physiotherapy scope of practice, skill-set optimization, value for physiotherapy, economic impact.	Politique ou Programme
Budget, Emploi et formation, Relations fédérales-provinciales, Santé, Travail	Value for physiotherapy in diverse sectors such as primary care. Discussion includes physiotherapy access, expansion of services and scope of practice.	Politique ou Programme

Subject matter details in previous versions

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
Subject matters	Details	Categories
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan - changes to financial supports provided in response to COVID-19 pandemic to ensure physiotherapists are included in supports, regardless of business models in place. Programs of interest include Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, Canada Emergency Business Account and Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program.	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Canada's response to COVID-19 pandemic: ensure personal protective equipment is available to physiotherapists working in all health care settings.	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Caseload Guidelines: Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology.	Subvention, Contribution ou autre avantage financier
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Enable support and funding for those communities that could potentially benefit most from telerehabilitation services, including Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis and rural and remote populations, where infrastructure may presently exclude them from access (no cellular or internet service/access)	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Health Human Resource Strategy: Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy.	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy, as an upstream response to the opioid crisis	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population.	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Raise awareness about the role of physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare and educate policymakers on how physiotherapy can help reduce healthcare costs, support preventative care and contribute to a healthier Canadian population at all stages of life.	Politique ou Programme
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Remove the requirement that employees of the federal public service must get a referral from a medical doctor before qualifying for reimbursement for physiotherapy services under the Public Service Health Care Plan.	Politique ou Programme

Subject matters in previous versions

Aboriginal Affairs
Budget
Employment and Training
Taxation and Finance
Small Business
Research and Development
Health
Education

Who is being lobbied?

Government Institutions

Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
House of Commons
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Finance Canada (FIN)
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Health Canada (HC)
Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Statistics Canada (StatCan)
Senate of Canada

Communication techniques

Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:

Grass-roots communication
Written communication
Oral communication
Arrange one or more meetings

Who are the lobbyists?

Lisa Carroll, Senior Director, Professional Practice | No public offices held
Fiona Livingstone, Chief Corporate Services Officer | No public offices held
Krissy Murphy, Chief Executive Officer | No public offices held
Kayla Scott, Senior Director, Advocacy | No public offices held

Lobbyists in previous versions
- Lisa Carroll, Director, Policy and Research | No public offices held

Registration number: 954941-16979
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Monthly Communication Reports

What oral and arranged communications have taken place?

What oral and arranged communications have taken place?
Date	DPOH, Position Title \| Government Institution	Subject Matters
2024-08-13	Luc Theriault, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health, Labour
2024-06-25	Pat Kelly, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-06-06	Yasir Naqvi, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health, Labour
2024-05-23	Peter Fragiskatos, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-23	Pam Damoff, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-17	Wilson Miao, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-15	Stephan Hoffman, Chief of Staff, MP Patricia Lattanzio House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-15	Philip Lawrence, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-15	Francesco Sorbara, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-14	Anthony Rota, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-14	Valerie Bradford, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-13	Sean Casey, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-13	Andréanne Larouche, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-05-13	Tina Warawa, Chief of Staff \| MP Shannon Stubbs, House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-04-24	Mark Holland, Minister of Health House of Commons	Budget, Health
2024-03-08	Marcus Powlowski, Member of Parliament House of Commons	Budget, Employment and Training, Health
2024-02-28	Rebecca Caldwell, Senior Policy Advisor \| Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Small Business, Health
2024-02-28	Mehreen Khan, Senior Advisor/Economist \| Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch, Finance Canada (FIN) Alison McDermott, Assistant Deputy Minister \| Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch, Finance Canada (FIN) Nicole Michalewicz, Policy Advisor \| Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch, Finance Canada (FIN) Simon Vallieres, Senior Economic Analyst \| Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch, Finance Canada (FIN)	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Small Business, Health
2024-02-09	Riley Schnurr, Deputy Director of Policy \| Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Health
2024-02-05	Stephanie Claxton, Policy Advisor \| Health Canada, Health Canada (HC) Wilder Walker-Stewart, Policy Advisor \| Minister's Office, Health Canada (HC)	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Research and Development, Health
2023-11-27	Miles Wu, Senior Policy & Regional Advisor \| Office of the Honourable Carla Qualtrough , House of Commons	Education, Health
2023-11-24	Douglas Wong, Senior Policy Advisor \| Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Finance Canada (FIN)	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Health
2023-10-23	Elizabeth Wong, Policy & Operations Advisor \| Office of the Minister of Labour and Seniors, House of Commons	Budget, Education, Employment and Training, Health
2023-10-19	Jill Pilgrim, Senior Policy Advisor \| Minister's Office, Health Canada (HC) Wilder Walker-Stewart, Policy Advisor \| Minister's Office, Health Canada (HC)	Budget, Education, Health

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Canadian Physiotherapy Association / Association canadienne de physiotherapie - Address, activities & membership

Address:

270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
Canada

Telephone number: 613-564-5454

Contact information in previous versions
- 270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
  OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-564-5454 Ext. 221
- 270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
  OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-564-5454 Ext. 214
- 270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
  OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-564-5454 Ext. 214
  
  Fax number: 613-564-1577
- 270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
  OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-564-5454
  
  Fax number: 613-564-1577
- 410 - 2345 YONGE STREET
  TORONTO, ON M4P 2E5
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 416-932-1888
  
  Fax number: 416-932-9708
- 410 - 2345 YONGE STREET
  TORONTO, ON M4P 2E5
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 416-932-1888
  
  Fax number: 416-932-9708

Description of the organization's activities:
The Canadian Physiotherapy Association is the professional association representing over 10,000 physiotherapists across Canada. It is a voluntary membership organization with the mission to provide leadership and direction to the physiotherapy profession, foster excellence in practice, education and research, and promote high standards of health in Canada.

Organization's membership or classes of membership:
Members of CPA are physiotherapists who hold current or past registration with a provincial regulatory board, or who have graduated from an accredited Canadian university physiotherapy academic program.

Date Modified:: 2024-10-01

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