12-Month Lobbying Summary - Consultant

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Subject matters	Details	Categories
Health	ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN: Advocate for measures to alleviate the administrative burden on physicians and support their professional wellbeing, including investment to facilitate the development of Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records 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.	Policies or Program, Regulation
Health	AGEING WITH DIGNITY: Advocate for a pan-Canadian plan to improve elder care, including investments in long-term care standards, enhanced home and community-based care, and supports for older persons, an older adults care benefit program to deliver funding to older adults and caregivers to cover out of pocket health care costs, improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care, and the development of a United Nations document supporting the rights of older persons.	Policies or Program
Aboriginal Affairs, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	BILL S-251: support the passage of Bill S-251, An Act to repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's call to action number 6).	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Budget, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER: Increased federal funding for health care to the provinces and territories to ensure the sustainability of the health care system.	Policies or Program
Health	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.	Policies or Program
Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Ensuring a coordinated and consistent national response by the federal government across all jurisdictions, including targeted resources to ensure health systems have the capacity to respond, advocating on equitable vaccine supply and distribution, applying restrictive public health measures when needed, prioritizing national collaboration to save the most lives, and ensure adequate supply, proper distribution, and appropriate usage of personal protective equipment throughout health systems.	Policies or Program
Health, Science and Technology	DIGITAL HEALTH: Increased investment in providing digital, virtual and telehealth services.	Policies or Program
Budget, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Budget, Health	FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING TO EXPAND PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY: Recommendation for a $1 billion investment to expand Canada’s public health capacity.	Policies or Program
Health, Justice and Law Enforcement, Science and Technology	HARMFUL ONLINE CONTENT: Support the passage of Bill C-63, an Act to enact the Online Harms Act to address the escalation of online harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence targeting physicians, other health workers, and anyone seeking health care treatment, including measures to strengthen the Criminal Code of Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Act.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Health	HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs, including measures to address to opioid crisis.	Policies or Program
Aboriginal Affairs, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Aboriginal Affairs, Health	INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
Employment and Training, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Health	MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING: Advancing the medical profession’s perspectives on medical assistance in dying.	Policies or Program
Climate, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Employment and Training, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Health	PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ACT (PIPEDA) PRIVACY PROTECTION OF HEALTH INFORMATION AND THE REGULATORY REVIEW: Improvement to privacy legislation to protect the privacy of health information.	Policies or Program
Health	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.	Policies or Program
Health	PHYSICIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN CAUCUS: advocate for the formation of a Physician Parliamentarian Caucus as a means of examining deficiencies in the health care system and proposing solutions.	Policies or Program
Employment and Training, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health	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.	Policies or Program
Health, Science and Technology	TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: consider the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector including input on Bill C-27.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program

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  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	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.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN: Advocate for measures to alleviate the administrative burden on physicians and support their professional wellbeing, including investment to facilitate the development of Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records 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.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	AGEING WITH DIGNITY: Advocate for a pan-Canadian plan to improve elder care, including investments in long-term care standards, enhanced home and community-based care, and supports for older persons, an older adults care benefit program to deliver funding to older adults and caregivers to cover out of pocket health care costs, improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care, and the development of a United Nations document supporting the rights of older persons.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	ANTI-RACISM PLAN: implementation of a nation-wide anti-racism plan, recognizing that racism is a structural determinant of health and drives health and social inequities.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	BILL S-251: support the passage of Bill S-251, An Act to repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's call to action number 6).	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	BLOOD BAN: adjust eligibility criteria for blood donors so that these criteria are behaviour-based and do not consider sexual orientation.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER: Increased federal funding for health care to the provinces and territories to ensure the sustainability of the health care system.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	COMMUNITY-BASED CARE, LONG-TERM CARE, AND OLDER PERSONS: investments in long-term care standards, enhanced home and community-based care, and supports for older persons.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	CONCENTRATION OF NICOTINE IN VAPING PRODUCTS REGULATIONS: support for regulations to establish a maximum nicotine concentrations for vaping products.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Ensuring a coordinated and consistent national response by the federal government across all jurisdictions, including targeted resources to ensure health systems have the capacity to respond, advocating on equitable vaccine supply and distribution, applying restrictive public health measures when needed, prioritizing national collaboration to save the most lives, and ensure adequate supply, proper distribution, and appropriate usage of personal protective equipment throughout health systems.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	COVID-19 VACCINATION STRATEGY: Advocacy on vaccine supply, distribution, ensuring involvement of primary care in vaccination strategy, public education, and federal role in the development and administration of vaccine passport and domestic certification system and Vaccine Injury Support Program.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	DIGITAL HEALTH: Increased investment in providing digital, virtual and telehealth services.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	DISABILITY TAX CREDIT PROMOTERS RESTRICTIONS REGULATIONS: Ensuring that physicians are not captured in the definition of "promoters" in the regulations.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH ISSUES: Supporting a national climate change plan that addresses the health impacts of climate change.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	EQUITABLE GLOBAL ACCESS TO COVID-19 VACCINE: advocacy on equitable global distribution and access to COVID-19 vaccine.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING TO EXPAND PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY: Recommendation for a $1 billion investment to expand Canada’s public health capacity.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING, NATIONAL COLLABORATION, AND OTHER RESOURCES TO BOOST CAPACITY OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL SUPPORTS: Ensure a coordinated and consistent national response by the federal government to COVID-19 across all jurisdictions and regions by delivering targeted and substantial emergency funding and coordination of other resources to ensure health systems have capacity to respond.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	FEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAMS AND FEDERAL FORMS: Improved remuneration for the completion of federal health forms by physicians.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	FEDERAL LEADERSHIP ON CANADA'S COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE STRATEGY: Take strong measures across the country, including marshalling national resources where needed, applying restrictive public health measures, investing in safe and sustained return to in-person school, and prioritizing national collaboration to save the most lives.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	FPT health relationships: Engage the Minister on CMA’s recommendation to increase dialogue between provinces to come to an agreement and identify reform priorities as a remedy to the healthcare crisis	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HARMFUL ONLINE CONTENT: Advocate for new legislative measures to address the escalation of online harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence targeting physicians, other health workers, and anyone seeking health care treatment, including measures to strengthen the Criminal Code of Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Act.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES: advocating for federal leadership, in collaboration with the provinces and territories, to address the health human resources crisis, with new federal measures including i) creating retention incentives and addressing administrative burden to improve access to healthcare in areas of need and improve the well-being of health care providers, ii) ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary health team; iii) increasing access to virtual primary care for all people living in Canada; iv) increasing the number of doctors and nurses v) developing an action plan to get internationally trained doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners to work; vi) developing a strategy to support the mental health of health care workers and their families, and vii) improving workforce data collection across health systems.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (ELECTRONIC MEDICAL AND HEALTH RECORDS: Investment and needed regulations to facilitate the development of EHRs and EMRs in Canada	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE: A targeted health infrastructure fund as part of the federal government’s long-term plan for public infrastructure.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs, including measures to address to opioid crisis.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH WORFORCE STUDY: advocate for a follow up by the Senate of the Health Workforce Study undertaken by the House of Commons.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING: Invest in pan-Canadian health workforce planning, including data infrastructure, and a physician supply needs-based planning tool, to ensure Canadians have timely access to health providers while supporting the well-being of health workers.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Healthcare net-zero goal: Introducing CMA’s net-zero goal and discuss potential policy options for federal action.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	LONG-TERM CARE & SENIORS: Support older persons in Canada to age with dignity, including federal investment in national standards for long-term care and enhanced home and community care.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING: Advancing the medical profession’s perspectives on medical assistance in dying.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	MEDICINAL MARIJUANA REGULATIONS: Strengthening regulations related to the prescribing of medical marijuana.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	MENTAL HEALTH TRANSFER AND OTHER SUPPORTS: engage the federal government on the creation of a Canada Mental Health transfer and improving access to mental health services.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	NATIONAL PHYSICIANS DAY: CMA is advocating for a National Physicians Day in Canada.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS: Increased restriction on the sale and advertising of tobacco and vaping products in Canada.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	NET ZERO: Advocate for environmentally sustainable health systems in Canada, including the creation of a national climate change plan that addresses the health impacts of climate change, helping Canada’s health care systems reach net zero, and a targeted health infrastructure fund as part of the federal government’s long-term plan for public infrastructure.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	OLDER ADULTS CARE BENEFIT: New older adults care benefit program to deliver funding to older adults and caregivers to cover out of pocket health care costs.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE: Improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	PAN-CANADIAN LICENSURE FOR REGULATED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Seeking federal government support, including studies and investment, to explore barriers and enablers for pan-Canadian licensure, including enabling legislation in the provinces and territories.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ACT (PIPEDA) PRIVACY PROTECTION OF HEALTH INFORMATION AND THE REGULATORY REVIEW: Improvement to privacy legislation to protect the privacy of health information.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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, 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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	PHYSICIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN CAUCUS: advocate for the formation of a Physician Parliamentarian Caucus as a means of examining deficiencies in the health care system and proposing solutions.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	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.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	RECONCILIATION WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CANADA: 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, advancing compensation for Indigenous children and committing to collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	SAFE AND UNIMPEDED ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES: Ensuring safe and unimpeded access to health care facilities for health care workers and patients.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	SAFETY OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND PATIENTS: Advocate for the implementation, by all applicable jurisdictions, of measures to protect health care workers and anyone seeking health care treatment from violence, threats, intimidation, and harassment.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	SICK NOTES: Advocacy on discontinuing the requirement that employees present sick notes to their employers.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	SUPPORT FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS: Advocacy on paid sick leave for essential workers to support Canada's pandemic response.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Seeking federal government support, including studies and investment, to explore barriers and enablers to team-based health care.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: consider the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector including input on Bill C-27.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: consider the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	THE ACQUISITION AND THE DOMESTIC SUPPLY OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: Ensuring the federal government take additional measures ensure adequate supply, proper distribution, and appropriate usage of personal protective equipment throughout health systems.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICE FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS: Establish an emergency National Mental Health Support Services hotline for all health care providers during the pandemic, to ensure health care providers have the assistance they need to deal with an increasing patient load.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The development of a United Nations document supporting the rights of older persons.	Policies or Program

  Subject matters in previous versions

  • Aboriginal Affairs
  • Budget
  • Climate
  • Constitutional Issues
  • Consumer Issues
  • Education
  • Employment and Training
  • Environment
  • Federal-Provincial Relations
  • Financial Institutions
  • Government Procurement
  • Health
  • Immigration
  • Industry
  • Infrastructure
  • International Development
  • International Relations
  • Justice and Law Enforcement
  • Pensions
  • Privacy and Access to Information
  • Regional Development
  • Research and Development
  • Science and Technology
  • Small Business
  • Taxation and Finance

Government Institutions

• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Defence (DND)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
• Office of the Secretary to the Governor General (OSGG)
• Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
• Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office)
• Senate of Canada
• Service Canada (ServCan)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Communication techniques

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

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

Alika Lafontaine, Member of the Board of Directors for the organization (Business address and contact information)

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