Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Consumer Issues
• Employment and Training
• Financial Institutions
• Health
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Pensions
• Privacy and Access to Information
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Income Tax Act, Part VI as it relates to capital tax on financial institutions.
• Income Tax Act, Section 146: Retirement income recommendations regarding the treatment of life insurance companies; Section 146.2 (TFSAs); Section 146.3 (RRIFs).
• Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: seeking workable approaches to privacy rules affecting life and health insurers when the Act is updated.
• Statutory review of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act as it relates to insurance products and consumer and creditor protection.
• Winding Up and Restructing Act (WURA) with respect to subsection 73(1) re set-off.

Policies or Program

• Address proposed changes to the Income Tax Act regarding the tax treatment on Canadian dividends received by Canadian insurers.
• Canada’s Financial Consumer Protection Framework as it relates to insurance policies.
• Employment Insurance (EI) reform as it relates to disability benefits; and EI Premium Reduction Program issues.
• Financing infrastructure projects, as it relates to investments by insurers
• Health Care reform as it relates to affordable prescription drugs, wellness and disease prevention and long term care needs of Canadians.
• International Trade with respect to opening trade relations, regulations, foreign ownership and national treatment in foreign markets, with regards to India, Europe, China, Japan, Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP), Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), Plurilateral Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• National Dental care – Work to ensure good understanding of the role that private insurers play in dental care coverage and advocate for improvements to the current system.
• Seeking to raise awareness about prescription drug coverage policy considerations and concerns in context of national universal pharmacare proposals as an association and as a participant in the Together for Better Health organization. Other related initiatives include high cost drugs for rare disease and Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) regulations.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Engage on the approval process for allowing foreign insurers to issue private health insurance for temporary residents in Canada as allowed under the Bill formerly known as C-242. The legislation amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to allow a parent or grandparent who applies for a temporary resident visa as a visitor to purchase private health insurance outside Canada and to stay in Canada for a period of five years.

Regulation

• Amendments to Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing rules as they affect insurance companies
• Clarification of Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) treatment of financial services.
• Engage on the details of the regulations and how benefits are defined related to the Bill formerly known as C-22, the Canada Disability Benefit Act.
• Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) risk-based guidance as it relates to life insurance
• Income Tax Regulations (section 6(1)(f) as it relates to income tax withholding on wage loss replacement plans (disability income benefits).
• Income Tax Regulations, Part III: Updating income tax rules for life insurance policies.
• Income Tax Regulations, Part XIV.
• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI). Guidelines related to risk management, capital and accounting for insurance companies.
• Promotion of risk-based and principles-based regulation for financial institutions regulations.
• Regulation of prescription drug pricing: reform of Canada's approach to the regulation of patented medicines

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
• Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
• 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)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI)
• Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
• Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC)
• Senate of Canada
• Transport Canada (TC)

Address:
79 Wellington Street West
Suite 2300, P.O. Box 99, TD South Tower
Toronto, ON  M5K 1G8
Canada

Telephone number: 416-777-2221  Ext. 3092
Fax number: 416-777-1895