Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne
Registration:
124
of
176
(2020-12-16
to
2021-01-01)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- BILL C-7, AN ACT TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL CODE (MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING): amendments to ensure proposed legislation does not include stigmatizing language with respect to mental health, additionally ensuring the legislative framework ensures appropriate safeguards for vulnerable populations, consistency and clarity in the pan-Canadian framework, that practitioners may abide by moral commitments and provides support for clinical practice guidelines.
- EXCISE TAX ACT: GST AND PHYSICIAN SERVICES: Changes to the application of the GST (zero-rate) on Physician practices
- PHYSICIANS DAY: CMA Calling for a Physicians Day in Canada
- PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATIONS: Federal investments or taxation changes to improve the health care system and the health of Canadians
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Tax planning using private corporations CMA has initiated a comprehensive response which includes – advocacy to influence government; support to members in their individual advocacy; development of a submission to government
Policies or Program
- ABORIGINAL HEALTH ISSUES: Improvement to the health and health care services provide to aboriginal people in Canada
- CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER: Increased federal funding for health care to the provinces and territories.
- 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
- CHILD HEALTH: Increased investments and improved regulation to protect and enhance the health of children
- CHRONIC DISEASES: Increased federal investments to protect and promote the health of Canadians
- COVID-19 VACCINATION STRATEGY: Encouraging federal and provincial/territorial collaboration on the pan-Canadian COVID-19 vaccination strategy, including health provider participation and addressing vaccine hesitancy.
- Disabilty Tax Credit Program. To review the 2002 CMA submission to the sub-committee on the status of persons with disabilities.
- EMERGENCY FUNDING 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 to ensure health systems have capacity to respond.
- EMERGENCY PAN-CANADIAN LICENSURE FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS: Urging the federal government to deliver targeted funding to health regulators in support of a pilot national licensure program by amending Article 705(3) of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement to facilitate mobility of health care workers.
- EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: The adoption of a health emergencies Act to protect the health of Canadians in time of a national health emergency
- ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH ISSUES: Improvement in federal legislation to improve air, water, soil quality and climate change.
- FEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAMS AND FEDERAL FORMS: Improved compensation for the completion of federal health forms by physicians
- FUNDING FOR LONG-TERM CARE: delivering new funding by means of a demographic based top up to the Canada Health Transfer to improve seniors care and long-term care.
- Federal Economic Relief Programs (CEWS, CEBA) and new tax measures for front-line health care workers
- HEALTH CARE AND INNOVATION FUND: Funding to assist provinces and territories to expand access to primary care, public health and address the backlog of health procedures
- HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES: Recruitment and retention of health care providers and federal investment in residency spots.
- HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (ELECTRONIC MEDICAL AND HEALTH RECORDS: Investment and needed regulations to facilitate the development of EHRs and EMRs in Canada
- HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE: A targeted health infrastructure fund as part of the federal government’s long-term plan for public infrastructure
- HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investment and improved regulations to protect and enhance the health of Canadians
- HEALTHY LIVING INITIATIVES: Encouraging governments to fund programs to promote healthy living
- IMMUNIZATION: Enhancing the federal role in the production and equitable access to vaccines, vaccine schedules, requirements to vaccinate, public funding, registries, reporting of adverse events and vaccine hesitancy.
- INTERNET PRESCRIBING: Prohibitions against the prescribing of pharmaceuticals over the internet
- LONG-TERM CARE STANDARDS: federal and provincial/territorial collaboration on new pan-Canadian standards to improve long-term care in Canada.
- LONG-TERM CARE: Increase investments and changes to the Tax Act to enhance long-term care
- MEMORIAL GRANT PROGRAM: Expand eligibility of the Memorial Grant program for first responders to the families of front line health care workers serving during the pandemic.
- NATIONAL HEALTH GOALS: The establishment of national health goals for the Canadian population
- NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS: Increased restriction on the sale and advertising of tobacco products in Canada
- PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE: Improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care
- PRIMARY CARE: Increased federal funding to improve patient access to family physicians and primary care teams.
- PUBLIC HEALTH: Increased funding to expand public health capacity in Canada.
- RETIREMENT INCOME ISSUES: Ensuring that Canadian physicians are able to save adequately for retirement; long-term care savings plan.
- SUICIDE PREVENTION: National Suicide Prevention Action Plan - Letter of support for a Private Member's Motion to be tabled in the House of Commons
- SUSTAINABILITY OF HEALTH CARE (FINANCING AND ACCESSIBILITY): Increases in health transfer funding and accountability by the federal government
- Seniors: The CMA is calling for Canada to have a national seniors strategy in place by 2019
- TAX DEDUCTION FOR FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS: Recommendation for a tax deduction for front-line health care workers serving during the pandemic.
- TELEHEALTH: Increased investment in providing telehealth to rural and remote communities
- 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.
- 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.
- THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A TARGETED TAX CREDIT TO ALLEVIATE THE NEGATIVE FINANCIAL IMPACTS EXPERIENCED BY HEALTH PROVIDERS IF THEY ARE QUARANTINED FOLLOWING PATIENT CARE: Recommending that the federal government establish a time-limited and targeted tax credit for health providers who may experience financial loss due to quarantine.
- VIRTUAL CARE: Federal funding to establish a “digi-health knowledge bank” to support equitable access to virtual health care services.
Regulation
- MEDICINAL MARIJUANA REGULATIONS: strengthening regulations related to the prescribing of medical marijuana
- NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS: Strengthen regulatory regime of natural health products.
- 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