This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.
Summary
This is from the published bill.
This enactment provides for the development of a national framework designed to support improved access for Canadians to diabetes prevention and treatment.
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Bill C-237 aims to create a national framework for diabetes in Canada. It focuses on prevention, treatment, research, data collection, and knowledge sharing, considering existing strategies and health inequalities.
Liberal
Establish national framework: The bill establishes a national framework for diabetes to coordinate efforts across Canada, addressing the growing prevalence and impact of the disease.
Improve prevention and care: The framework will promote awareness, prevention, education, data collection, treatment, and research, aiming to improve health outcomes for all Canadians.
Coordinate with partners: The framework requires consultation with provinces, territories, Indigenous groups, and stakeholders to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated national approach.
Build on government investment: The bill complements existing government investments in diabetes research, prevention, and surveillance, aligning with Budget 2021 initiatives.
Conservative
Supports national framework: The Conservative Party supports the bill to create a national framework for diabetes, recognizing it as a serious and growing issue that requires a national strategy.
Focus on prevention and lifestyle: Members emphasize prevention, particularly for type 2 diabetes, highlighting the importance of healthy eating, exercise, and weight management to reduce risk and manage the condition.
Disability tax credit amendment: The party successfully amended the bill to ensure the Disability Tax Credit is administered fairly for people with diabetes and achieves its objective of providing financial assistance.
Need for additional funding: While supporting the bill, Conservatives note the need for additional funding for initiatives like Diabetes Canada, Participaction, and addressing the affordability of medications and technology.
NDP
Supports national framework bill: The NDP supports Bill C-237, recognizing the need for a national framework to address the significant health and financial costs of diabetes and ensure more holistic support.
Advocates for national pharmacare: The party stresses the urgent need for a universal public pharmacare plan to ensure all Canadians with diabetes have access to affordable medications, devices, and supplies, regardless of income or location.
Highlights provincial disparities: Members share examples illustrating how access to essential diabetes devices and coverage varies significantly by province, creating unequal and often unaffordable care for families.
Calls for national strategy: The NDP believes the federal government must support developing a new national diabetes strategy, potentially based on the Diabetes 3600 framework, including indigenous-specific approaches.
Bloc
Supports national framework: The Bloc Québécois supports establishing a national framework for diabetes to address the growing health crisis and its significant costs.
Respects Quebec jurisdiction: Support is contingent on the federal government respecting Quebec's jurisdiction in health care and incorporating its demands and existing practices into the framework.
Addresses key needs: The framework addresses critical needs including explaining diabetes, training professionals, promoting research, improving data collection, and ensuring fair access to the disability tax credit.
Emphasizes prevention and equity: The party emphasizes the importance of prevention, including federally controlled measures like labelling, and addressing health inequalities, particularly among Indigenous communities.
It being 3.18 p.m., pursuant to order made on January 25, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of Bill C-237, under Private Members' Business.
Call in the members.
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(The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the following division:)
