Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Climate
• Consumer Issues
• Education
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Health
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Science and Technology
• Sports
• Taxation and Finance
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Physicians Day (Bill S-248): Calling for a national Physicians Days in Canada.
• Pre-Budget consultations: Federal investment and taxation changes to improve health care system and the health of Canadians.
• Tax planning using private corporations: Initiate a comprehensive response which includes advocacy to influence government, support to members in the individual advocacy, and development of a submission to the federal government.

Policies or Program

• Aboriginal Health Issues: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Aboriginal people in Canada.
• Canadian Pharmaceutical Strategy: A national strategy to ensure all Canadians have access to safe, effective, and affordable prescription drugs regardless of employment status or geography.
• Child Health: Increase investment and improved regulation to protect and enhance the health of children.
• Chronic Diseases: Increased federal investment to protect and promote the health of Canadians.
• Disability Tax Credit Program: To review the 2002 Canadian Medical Association submission to the sub-committee on the status of persons with disabilities.
• Emergency Preparedness: The adoption of a health emergencies Act to protect the health of Canadians in time of national health emergency.
• Environmental and Health Issues: Improvement of federal legislation to improve air, water, soil quality and climate change.
• Excise Tax Act and Physician Services: Changes to the application of zero-rate tax on physician practices.
• Federal Health Programs and Forms: Improved compensation for the completion of federal forms by physicians.
• Health information technologies (electronic medical and health records): Investment and needed regulations to facilitate the development of health information technology 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 investment and improved regulations to protect and enhance the health of Canadians.
• Healthy living initiatives: Encouraging governments to fund programs to promote healthy living.
• Human Health Resources: Recruitment and retention of health care providers and federal investment in residency spots.
• Internet prescribing: Prohibitions against the prescribing of pharmaceuticals over the internet.
• Long-term care: Increase investment and changes to the Tax Act to enhance long-term care.
• National health goals: The establishment of national health goals for the Canadian population.
• National tobacco controls program: Increased restriction on the sale and advertising of tobacco products in Canada.
• Palliative and End of Life care: Improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care.
• Retirement income issues: Ensuring that Canadian physicians are able to save adequately for retirement; long-term care savings plan.
• Seniors: Calling for Canada to have a national seniors strategy in place by 2019.
• Suicide prevention: National Suicide Prevention Action Plan - Letter of support for a Private Member's Motion to be table in the House of Commons.
• Sustainability of health care (financing and accessibility): Increase in health transfer funding and accountability by the federal government.
• Telehealth: Increased investment in providing telehealth to rural and remote communities.

Regulation

• Medicinal Marijuana regulations: Strengthening regulations relating to the prescribing of medical marijuana.
• Natural health products: Strengthen regulatory regime of natural health products.
• Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA): Privacy protection of health information and regulatory review: Improvement to privacy legislation to protect the privacy of health information.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Canada Foundation for Innovation
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)
• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• 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)
• Senate of Canada
• Service Canada (ServCan)
• Status of Women Canada (SWC)
• Transport Canada (TC)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

Address:
1867 Alta Vista Drive
Ottawa, ON  K1G 5W8
Canada

Telephone number: 867-669-4100

Client representative

Timothy Smith, Chief Executive Officer

Parent Company Information

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