NATIONAL ISSUES / FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL RELATIONS EASY ACCESS LIST: Major National Issues / Federal-Provincial Relations Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: July 22, 2021

This page is continually updated.

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition National Issues / Federal-Provincial Relations:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut
• SUBMISSION: Speaking Out About Protecting Health Care from International Trade Agreements
• REPORT: The Economic Case for Universal Pharmacare: Costs and benefits of publicly funded drug coverage for all Canadians
• REPORT: Research Output of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Industry: Where Has All the R&D Gone?
• ANALYSIS: OHC Analysis of the First Ministers’ Health Accord
• ANALYSIS: Preliminary Analysis of the Romanow Report from the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Labour Congress
• REPORT: Roy Romanow’s Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada has presented its report, “Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada”

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• BRIEFING: Alberta’s “Bill 11” threat to public health care & Ontario’s Ford government privatization of public hospitals
• FACT SHEET, BRIEFING NOTE & VIDEOS: What is Public Medicare and how did Canadians achieve it?
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care
• RESOURCES: What are our governments doing and how do they compare? COVID-19 federal and provincial support resources
• OP-ED: Conservatives are wrong to refuse debate on health care
• VIDEO: How do “tax cuts” stack up against new costs as a result of health care cuts?
• OP/ED: Ottawa edges away from public medicare
• BACKGROUNDER: B.C. Private Clinics Challenge to Single-Tier Health Care
• BRIEF: Regarding Bill 102, an Act to Amend the Drug Interchangeability and Dispensing Fee Act and the Ontario Drug Benefit Act
• Fact Sheet: Pharma Facts and Figures

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Health coalitions call on premiers to protect public health care in the face of two-tier threat
• RELEASE: Revelations of Grifols’ non-compliance rate must result in end of contract: Ford government must comply with Voluntary Blood Donations Act & end for-profit/paid plasma
• RELEASE: Health Coalition demands disclosures & end to Grifols’ for-profit blood plasma contract following reports of deaths, harm, non-compliance
• JOINT LETTER: Health Coalitions Demand Action: Alberta’s Bill 11 Threatens Public Health Care for All Canadians
• ADVISORY: Health Coalitions from across Canada issued a joint statement in advance of the gathering of First Ministers and the Council of the Federation: Any governments across Canada that claim to prioritize the economy while dismantling our public health care have lost their moral compass
• RELEASE: Left unchallenged, “create a crisis and privatize” provincial schemes will destroy public health care: Health Coalition called on Trudeau to step up and show real leadership
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions warn health funding without strings is not in the public interest: Federal health dollars must come with accountability and national standards
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions denounce for-profit deal by Canadian Blood Services that endangers Canada’s Blood Supply
• RELEASE: Provincial Health Coalitions Put Federal Parties on Notice: Canadians Demand Real Action to Fix Long-Term Care
• EVENT: Demand Our Federal and Provincial Governments Set National Standards to Improve Long-Term Care