Table of Contents for Ministerial Transition Materials

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An Overview of the Health Portfolio - Ministerial Briefing Volume I

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  • A. An overview of the Health Portfolio and your new responsibilities
  • B. An overview of the organizations that you oversee
    • 1. Health Canada
    • 2. Public Health Agency of Canada
    • 3. Canadian Food Inspection Agency
    • 4. Canadian Institutes of Health Research
    • 5. Patented Medicine Prices Review Board

    NB: More detailed information on each of these organizations can be found in Volume V.
  • C. Decision-making in the Health Portfolio
    • 6. Overview of legislative and regulatory responsibilities
    • 7. Overview of Health Portfolio legislation
  • D. Relationships with the provinces and territories
    • 8. An overview of the federal-provincial/territorial environment
    • 9. List of provincial and territorial Ministers of Health
  • E. Relationships with critical health players
    • 10. An overview of pan-Canadian Health Organizations
    • 11. An overview of other important players in Canada's health landscape
    • 12. List of other key players
  • F. Relationships with the international community
    • 13. An overview of the Minister's role in the international health community
    • 14. List of international partners for Ministerial engagement and upcoming international events

 

Hot Issues - Ministerial Briefing Volume II

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  • A. Hot Issues for Immediate Decision or Attention
     
    Decision
    • 1. External panel on options for a legislative response to Carter vs. Canada (Physician Assisted Dying)
    • 2. Supervised Consumption Sites
    • 3. Canada Health Act - key current compliance issues
    • 4. Apotex litigation
    • 5. Expiry of the order - Minimizing the Risk of Exposure to Ebola Virus Disease in Canada
    • 6. Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention (legislated)
    • 7. Items approved through Budget 2015 that require Treasury Board approval
    • 8. Bringing the Safe Foods for Canadians Act into force
    • 9. Canadian Food Safety Information Network
    • 10. Decision on Lyme Disease Conference (legislated)
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    • 12. Tlicho Funding Agreement (Northwest Territories)
    • 13. Canada First Research Excellence Fund - authority to access funding

    Attention
    • 14. Marijuana for medical purposes
    • 15. Review access to Naloxone in Canada
    • 16. Pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (PCPA)
    • 17. Office of the Auditor General Fall 2015 Report - Study/Audit of Services to First Nations
  • Other Hot Issues
     
    Regulatory Issues
    • 18. E-cigarettes / vaping
    • 19. Chemicals Management Plan
    • 20. Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., and the medicine Soliris
    • 21. Impact of Neonicotinoid pesticides on bees
    • 22.
    • 23. Legislative amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA)
    • 24. Draft tamper-resistant properties for drug regulations
    • 25. Nutrition labelling
    • 26.
    • 27. Drug shortages regulations
    • 28. Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa's Law) Regulations
    • 29.
    • 30. Regulation of Genetically Modified (GM) animals and foods
    • 31. Federal Tobacco Control Strategy
    • 32. Flavoured tobacco products
    • 33. Health Warning Messages on tobacco products
    • 34. Compliance and enforcement modernization (Inspection Review)
    • 35. Daime tea
    • 36. Asbestos
    • 37. Commercial cultivation of opium poppy
    • 38. Regulating APAAN (a powder used in the production of methamphetamines)
    • 39. Lead and Cadmium
    • 40. Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Service delivery and user fees
    • 41. Pesticide cost recovery
    • 42. Potable Water on Board Trains, Vessels, Aircraft and Buses Regulations
    • 43. Regulatory Transparency and Openness Framework
    • 44. Effective measures of a food safety system
    • 45. Product recalls

    Stakeholder Issues
    • 46. Compensation to victims of Thalidomide
    • 47. Dementia
    • 48. Fall 2015 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development - Audit of Health Canada's pesticide program
    • 49. Safety Code 6
    • 50. Wind turbine noise and health
    • 51. Commissioner of Official Languages - Report on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's (CIHR) support to Official Language Minority Communities

    Policy/program Issues
    • 52. Renewal of the mandate of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC)
    • 53. Post-Ebola actions: Review of the International Health Regulations and G7 leaders Commitment
    • 54. Antimicrobial Resistance
    • 55. Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) -- Compensation regime for additional costs of drugs for provinces and territories
    • 56. United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem 2016 (UNGASS)
    • 57. Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI)

    Aboriginal Issues
    • 58. Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommendations
    • 59. Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
    • 60. Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) - Assembly of First Nations joint review
    • 61. Statement of principles on a tripartite process to transfer health services to First Nations in Manitoba
  • C. Active Litigation
  • D. Reports to be Tabled in Parliament
  • E. Appointments

Platform Analysis - Ministerial Briefing Volume III

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  • A. New Health Accord
    • 1. Health Accord Overview
    • 2. Home care availability
    • 3. Prescription drug access and cost reduction
    • 4. Mental health care availability
    • 5. Pan-Canadian Collaboration on health innovation
  • B. Marijuana
    • 6. Legalization, regulation and access restriction
  • C. Healthier Kids
    • 7. Better food Choices
    • 8. National strategy on vaccination and concussions
    • 9. Plain packaging of tobacco products
  • D. Food Safety
    • 10. Enhanced inspections of domestic and imported foods
  • E. First Nations
    • 11. Nation-to-nation process, fiscal relationship and Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • F. Blood Safety
    • 12. Ending blood donation ban on MSM (men who have sex with men)
  • G. Reference Documents
    • 13. Liberal platform: A New Plan for a Strong Middle Class
    • 14. Backgrounder: Investing in health and home care
    • 15. Letter to Canada's Premiers
    • 16. Letter to the Premier of Quebec

Strategic Advice - Options - Ministerial Briefing Volume IV

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  • A. Towards a New Health Accord
    • 1. Understanding the stat of Canada's health care system: a diagnostic on performance, gaps and challenges in the system
    • 2. Overview of a new health accord: key elements and proposed approach
    • 3. Advancing a new health accord
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    • 4. Putting the new health accord into action:
      • e. Engaging with provinces, territories and First Nations: an overall strategy for engaging with provinces, territories and First Nations to advance a health accord
      •  f.
      • g. Moving forward with a new health accord: a critical path of key milestones in the development of a new health accord.
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    • 11. Advancing Canadian health priorities internationally: leveraging opportunities to engage internationally to advance priorities

Background on Health Portfolio Organizations - Ministerial Briefing Volume V

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  • A. List of Key Contacts in the Health Portfolio
  • B. Details on each Health Portfolio organization
     
    Health Canada
    • 1. Health Products and Food Branch
    • 2. Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch
    • 3. Pest Management Regulatory Agency
    • 4. First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
    • 5. Strategic Policy Branch
    • 6. Regions and Programs Bureau
    • 7. Legal Services
    • 8. Chief Financial Officer Branch
    • 9. Communications and Public Affairs Branch
    • 10. Corporate Services Branch

    Public Health Agency of Canada
    • 11. Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch
    • 12. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch
    • 13. Health Security Infrastructure Branch
    • 14. Strategic Policy, Planning, and International Affairs Branch
    • 15. Office of International Affairs
    • 16. Audit and Evaluation Functions

    Canadian Food Inspection Agency
    • 17. Canadian Food Inspection Agency Branches

    Canadian Institutes of Health Research
    • 18. Canadian Institutes of Health Research Overview
  • C. Health Portfolio Financials
  • D. List of Acronyms

Background on Government and Portfolio Processes - Ministerial Briefing Volume VI

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