Registry of Lobbyists
Version 3 of 6 (2006-06-14 to 2006-12-18) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.
| Organization: |
Ontario Medical Association
525 University Avenue Suite 300 Toronto, ON M5G 2K7 Canada |
| Telephone number: | 416-599-2580 Ext.: 3810 |
| Fax number: | 416-340-2946 |
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | Jonathan Guss, CEO |
| Description of the organization's activities: | The OMA represents the interests of Ontario physicians. It provides leadership for physicians in promoting the highest standards of health and heatlh care for the public. The OMA performs a wide variety of activities at the provincial and federal level such as advocating health promotion, disease and accident prevention, developing strategies and policies relating to health care, facilitating change within the medical profession, providing guidance and leadership for physicians by assisting them to influence, manage and adapt to change in the health care system, representing physicians in issues of compensation and physician human resources in Ontario. |
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | The OMA is a voluntary professional organization and is a division of the Canadian Medical Association. Membership is divided into the following classes: Ordinary, Non-Resident, Life, Honorary and Associate. |
| Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? | No |
| Name: | David Bach |
| Position title: | President |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Greg Flynn |
| Position title: | Past-President |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Jonathon Guss |
| Position title: | Chief Executive Officer |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Name: | Eleanor McMahon |
| Position title: | Executive Director, Public Affairs |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Name: | Patrick Nelson |
| Position title: | Manager, Media Relations |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Katie Paterson |
| Position title: | Communications Officer |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: | Environment Canada, Finance Canada (FIN), Health Canada (HC), Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), Revenue Canada (RC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) | ||||
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Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
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Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format | ||||
| Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: | Health, Science and Technology, Taxation and Finance | ||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | Tobacco control; Tobacco Act; Health Care Funding; Privacy legislation; access to health care; Canada Health Act; Environmental Issues including ground level ozone and sulphur emissions in gasoline; physician safety, pharmaceuticals, physician human resources, CPP and EI; sulphur in gasoline regulations, population health issues. | ||||
| Subject Matter: Prospective: | Health care funding and accessability; Canada Health Act, Home Care Programs, environmental issues, CPP and EI forms and contributions; financial issues; information privacy and electronic data use for health care information; physician human resources and compensation, population health issues, GST | ||||
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