Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Climate
• Consumer Issues
• Defence
• Education
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Health
• Housing
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Development
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Labour
• Pensions
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Sports
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• Receive funding for and report on funding from project on regulatory licensing exams for internationally educated nurses discussion paper
• Seek funding for nursing research

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Amend Subsection 14 (2) of the Food and Drugs Act and Section C.01.048 (1) to add NPs and RNs to the list of physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons and pharmacists permitted to dispense drug samples
• Amendments to Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)
• Amendments to Bill C-277, An Act providing for the development of a framework on palliative care in Canada
• Amendments to Bill C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related amendments to other Acts

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program

• Sodium Reduction Strategy - support for additional federal regulation of sodium levels in prepared and processed foods and implementation of the sodium reduction strategy

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

• Amend various sections ion the Income Tax Act and Income Tax Regulations to recognize and include NPs wherever medical doctors and medical practitioners are listed
• Recognize and include NPs wherever medical doctors and medical practitioners in various sections in the Employment Insurance Act, Employment Insurance Regulations and corresponding sections of the Canada Labour Code

Policies or Program

• Amend the Canada Pension Plan (CPP Disability Benefit) authorize NPs to complete the medical reports a person requires to apply for the CPP disability benefit.
• Create a comprehensive national dementia strategy
• Establish common standards to give all Canadians fair and equitable access to home health care
• Health Human Resources - greater coordination, creation of HHR Observatory and greater interprofessional collaboration.
• Impact of ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement on health care and the sustainability of the health system
• Improve community- and home-based health promotion
• Incorporate Primary Health Care (PHP) principles within a Health in All Policies approach
• Increase support to Canadians who provide care for aging relatives
• Invest in early, secondary, and post-secondary education for Indigenous students and in continuing professional development for health-care providers who serve Canada’s northern, rural and remote communities
• New Health Accord: Improve access to equitable, national, publicly funded home- and community-based care that includes telehealth, mental health and palliative care through the proposed $3 billion in federal funding for home care
• New Health Accord: include a demographic top-up for each province and territory based on demographics and population health priorities
• New Health Accord: provide fair and equitable distribution of Canada Health Transfer (CHT) funding through new Health Accord by ensuring that federal-provincial-territorial bilateral agreements include a robust accountability framework to enable monitoring and reporting on the use of CHT dollars.
• Nursing-entry to practice
• Programs to support seniors and healthy aging
• Provide funding for a comprehensive, universal, public, affordable prescription medication coverage that ensures access in all health-care settings based on need and not the ability to pay
• Strengthening and creating programs to support illness prevention and health promotion, long term care, palliative care, home and community care, affordable housing and other social determinants of health
• Strengthening of programs and supports for vulnerable populations, including child health, senior's health and domestic maternal, newborn and child health strategy development.
• Support a national commission for integrated health-care for Canadians

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)
• Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Correctional Service of Canada (CSC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)
• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Defence (DND)
• Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Senate of Canada
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Status of Women Canada (SWC)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

Address:
50 Driveway
Ottawa, ON  K2P 1E2
Canada

Telephone number: 613-237-2159  Ext. 548