Government promises

Ensure the overall fiscal health of the government, including by working to implement the fiscal plan outlined in Budget 2021 and driving a plan for long-term economic growth.

Support business recovery and workers, including by implementing legislation that extends the Canada Recovery Hiring Program, introduces rent and wage supports for tourism and hospitality sectors and arts and culture industries, and provides emergency support in the event of future public health lockdowns.

Introduce a one-time income tax deduction for health care professionals who are just starting out in their careers to help with the costs of setting up their practice in a rural community.

Ensure that the House of Commons is a healthy and safe workplace for all employees.

Develop a plan to make Parliament a more inclusive place for families and to respond with greater agility in the event of a future national health crisis.

As part of a green agricultural plan for Canada, increase support to farmers to develop and adopt agricultural management practices to reduce emissions, store carbon in healthy soil and enhance resiliency; triple funding for clean tech on farms; and reduce methane and fertilizer emissions in the agricultural sector.

Improve access to health care and social services in rural communities through amendments to the Canada Student Loans Forgiveness program for medical practitioners working in rural or remote areas.

Implement sector-based work permits to ensure the health and safety of temporary foreign workers.

Strengthen the inspections regime to ensure the health and safety of temporary foreign workers.

Recognize the “right to a healthy environment” in federal law.

Ensure implementation of and adherence to public health measures, and support the availability of rapid tests and self-tests.

Ensure the Public Health Agency of Canada has the resources and support necessary to continue protecting the health and safety of Canadians.

Strengthen surveillance and capacity to detect and act on public health threats.

Invest in the study of the long-term health impacts of COVID-19, including the effects of long COVID on different groups, notably vulnerable populations and children.

Expand the number of family doctors and primary health teams in rural communities and work to give rural communities greater access to a full suite of health and social services professionals.

Strengthen compliance with and modernize the interpretation of the Canada Health Act on matters of extra billing for publicly insured services.

Expedite work to create a world-class health data system that is timely, usable, open-by-default, connected and comprehensive.

Reinforce compliance under the Canada Health Act.

Establish a sexual and reproductive health information and rights portal.

Support youth-led and youth-focused organizations that respond to the unique sexual and reproductive health needs of young people.

Reinforce international efforts to ensure that people around the world have access to health interventions to fight COVID-19, including vaccines, therapeutics and strengthened health systems.

Promote healthy eating by advancing the Healthy Eating Strategy.

Promote seniors’ physical and mental health to enable them to live longer at home.

Fully implement Joyce’s Principle and ensure it guides work to co-develop distinctions-based Indigenous health legislation.

Co-develop and invest in a distinctions based Mental Health and Wellness Strategy to meet the needs of First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation.

Bolster Indigenous health system navigators to provide dedicated support for Indigenous people and their families.

Reinforce international efforts to ensure that people around the world have access to health interventions to fight COVID-19, including by donating at least 200 million vaccine doses to vulnerable populations through COVAX by the end of 2022.

Close persistent gaps in sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including in relation to the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence.

Make it a criminal offence to obstruct access to health services and to intimidate or threaten healthcare professionals or Canadians receiving health care.

Help all Canadians have greater access to mental health courts.

Expand access to culturally appropriate, trauma-informed mental health services for Indigenous Peoples who access treatment through mental health courts.

Amend the Canada Labour Code to include mental health as a specific element of occupational health and safety and require federally regulated employers to address workplace stress and injury.

Establish a permanent, ongoing Canada Mental Health Transfer to help expand the delivery of high-quality, accessible and free mental health services, including for prevention and treatment.

Develop mental health standards, with a particular focus on health equity.

Sustain improved access to virtual mental health services with Wellness Together Canada.

Ensure timely access to perinatal mental health services.

Introduce a new fund for student mental health to support the hiring of new mental health care counsellors, improve wait times for services, increase access overall and enable targeted supports to Black and racialized students at post-secondary institutions.

Ensure implementation of investments in mental health interventions and supports for people disproportionately impacted by COVID 19.

Ensure mental health supports are accessible to children and youth as they recover from the impact of the pandemic.

Require tobacco companiees to pay for the cost of federal public health investments in tobacco control.

Advance Canada’s first-ever National Action Plan on Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries, including additional investment to support the health and well-being of first responders.

Explore pathways to increase the accessibility of mental health services in rural areas.

Expand health services available to women in the CAF, ensuring comprehensive access to sexual and reproductive health resources, child care and mental health resources.

Increase investments to understand and address the clinical, occupational and deployment health needs of CAF women.

Continue contributing to Canada’s response to COVID-19, including by protecting the health and safety of CAF members at home and abroad, ensuring the continued effectiveness of CAF deployments.

Protect the health and safety of Canadians through safe, responsible and compassionate management of the border with the United States and other ports of entry into Canada.

Ensure CAF members and Veterans have access to adequate, tailored mental health resources, services and training programs.

Improve the operation of health surveillance systems to bolster national resilience and readiness for future pandemics and other emergencies.

Establish a mental health fund for Black public servants.

Support the full range of reproductive health services and close the gap in the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative.

Restore the Interim Federal Health Program that provides health benefits to refugees.

Sign new Health Accord with the provinces and territories.

Create greater links between our elite athletes and young Canadians to promote health and achievement among youth.

Create two centres of excellence in Veterans' care, including one specialized in mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Support families who are providing care and support to Veterans living with physical and/or mental health issues.

Develop a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food.

Introduce restrictions on the commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children.

Review Canada's framework for dealing with public health emergencies.

Promote the *Canada Health Act* to make absolutely clear that extra-billings and user fees are illegal and reporting is improved.

Develop a new self-governed approach to delivering health services to Indigenous peoples and reduce health inequities between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians.

Improve the delivery of child welfare and health care under Jordan's Principle to focus on the best interests of the child.

Enhance local community support for young Black Canadians at risk and advance research on more culturally appropriate mental health support programs for the Black community.

Implement the G7 Charlevoix Blueprint for Healthy Oceans, Seas and Resilient Coastal Communities and the Ocean Plastics Charter.

Build on federally supported programs that support the needs of seniors and their families to promote healthy aging.

New Health Accord supports the delivery of more and better home care services.

New Health Accord advances pan-Canadian collaboration on health innovation.

New Health Accord improves access to necessary prescription medications.

New Health Accord makes high quality mental health services available.

Implement the Auditor General's recommendations on enhancing mental health service delivery to Veterans.