Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Budget
- Education
- Employment and Training
- Health
- Research and Development
- Small Business
- Taxation and Finance
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Caseload Guidelines:
Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology.
Policies or Program
- Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program
- 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.
- Canada's response to COVID-19 pandemic: ensure personal protective equipment is available to physiotherapists working in all health care settings.
- 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)
- Health Human Resource Strategy:
Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy.
- Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy, as an upstream response to the opioid crisis
- Internationally Educated Health Professionals:
Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population.
- 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.
- 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.
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
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Senate of Canada
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Statistics Canada (StatCan)
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
In-house Organization Details
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.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
KRISSY MURPHY,
Chief Executive Officer
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.
Government funding
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
270 - 955 GREEN VALLEY CRESCENT
OTTAWA, ON K2C 3V4
Canada
Telephone number:
613-564-5454
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- Lisa Carroll,
Director, Policy and Research |
No public offices held
- Krissy Murphy,
Chief Executive Officer |
No public offices held
- Kayla Scott,
Senior Director, Advocacy |
No public offices held