Monthly Archives: October 2013
Policy Brainstorming Session – October 16th 2013
Proceedings opened at 6pm
Attendees: Brian, Andrew, Joshua, CT
Tabled Documents:
- CBC – 6 themes to watch at the Speech from the Throne
- Romanow Report, 2002. Executive Summary, healthcare in Canada
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Policy Discussion and Idea-Bouncing Results
Healthcare
- focus on chronic illnesses/long term care
- develop home care into a full-fledged and fully insured domain/industry
- Renew federal-provincial transfer agreements
- actually enforce the Canada Health Act
- ensure money is spent specifically on health care – discontinue the practice of depositing funds into general revenue streams of provinces
- update stipulations of the Canada Health Act to actually follow the recommendations of the numerous health care study commissions on health care insurance coverage
- reform medical licensing to streamline and regulate physician practices and establishments
- tiered healthcare packages?
- Currently privately insured services could be offered in a second-tier public insurance
Energy Efficiency
- Air conditionning and heating overusage; usage should be capped depending on temperature
- establish window regulations, either uniform insulation regulations, instructions on opening and closing times for windows with associated fines, or both
- Such measure would save energy as well as money through the reduced technical strains in AC and heating units, with their associated maintenance costs.
Aboriginal Issues
- economic development on reserves
- create employment opportunities through infrastructure investments and business incentives
- create skilled aboriginal labour to match demand created by the previous point
- current practice is to regularly throw money at band councils and ignore them
- serious sovereignty issue could hamper development
Tobacco
- promotion of a more « consumer friendly » approach, rather than a collective guilt-trip
- sponsor companies that don’t add deadly chemicals in the making of their cigarettes
- list cigarettes’ additives and chemicals on the packages
- instead of the current pictures that are inevitably ignored and thus fail their purpose
- perhaps instead display pictures of the chemicals listed on the package
Peacekeeping
- military reform for the UN
- less temporary military structure to improve cohesiveness and efficiency
- perhaps with a core force that would constitute a permanent leadership
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Meeting adjourned, 7:45pm
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