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Subject Matters

• 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

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• 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).
• 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, Policies or Program

• INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Policies or Program

• 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.
• CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER: Increased federal funding for health care to the provinces and territories to ensure the sustainability of the health care system.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• DIGITAL HEALTH: Increased investment in providing digital, virtual and telehealth services.
• EQUITABLE GLOBAL ACCESS TO COVID-19 VACCINE: advocacy on equitable global distribution and access to COVID-19 vaccine.
• 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.
• FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING TO EXPAND PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY: Recommendation for a $1 billion investment to expand Canada’s public health capacity.
• 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.
• FEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAMS AND FEDERAL FORMS: Improved remuneration for the completion of federal health forms by physicians.
• 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 investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING: Advancing the medical profession’s perspectives on medical assistance in dying.
• 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.
• NATIONAL PHYSICIANS DAY: CMA is advocating for a National Physicians Day in Canada.
• 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.
• 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.
• PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE: Improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• SAFE AND UNIMPEDED ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES: Ensuring safe and unimpeded access to health care facilities for health care workers and patients.
• 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.
• SICK NOTES: Advocacy on discontinuing the requirement that employees present sick notes to their employers.
• SUPPORT FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS: Advocacy on paid sick leave for essential workers to support Canada's pandemic response.
• TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: consider the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector.
• 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 development of a United Nations document supporting the rights of older persons

Policies or Program, Regulation

• DISABILITY TAX CREDIT PROMOTERS RESTRICTIONS REGULATIONS: Ensuring that physicians are not captured in the definition of "promoters" in the regulations.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

The lobbyist has arranged or expects to arrange one or more meetings on behalf of the client between a public office holder and any other person in the course of this undertaking.

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)
• Senate of Canada
• Service Canada (ServCan)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Address:
1410 Blair Towers Place
Suite 500
Ottawa, ON  K1J 9B9
Canada

Telephone number: 613-731-8610
Web address: www.cma.ca

Client representative

Sara West, Specialist, Compliance and Governance

Parent Company Information

Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.

Business address:
1410 Blair Towers Place
Suite 500
Ottawa, ON  K1J 9B9
Canada

Telephone number: 613-731-8610