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Health and dental plan benefits see Health care system

Health and safety see Occupational health and safety; Workplace--Deaths

Health care system

    >>Accessibility, 810, 5834, 5979, 5981
    >>>o.q., 6962
    >>Canada-Ukraine memorandum of cooperation on health, signing, benefits, S.O. 31, 7382
    >>Early prevention programs, 7265
    >>Efficiency and effectiveness, improvements
    >>>$65 million health services research fund, Medical Research Council of Canada study, Budget 1996 measure, 375, 460, 841-2, 1444, 1476, 1485, 1532
    >>>National Forum on Health, study, recommendations, 8295, 8342, 9135
    >>>>$300 million funding over next three years, Budget 1997 measure, 8295, 8342, 9137, 9334-5, 9565, 10047
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 8945
    >>>>$12.5 billion minimum cash transfers for health and social services, 10047-8
    >>>o.q., 528, 7661-3, 8731
    >>>S.O. 31, 635
    >>Expenditures
    >>>Aging population, impact, 1725
    >>>Alberta, reduction, impact, S.O. 31, 4797
    >>>Quebec, 1745
    >>>New Brunswick, reduction, senior citizens, impact, S.O. 31, 8007
    >>>See also Gross Domestic Product; National debt
    >>Family medicine, Southwest Middlesex Health Centre, training facility, Healthy Harvestfest, hosting, S.O. 31, 6604
    >>Federal government, role, 1453, 1701-2, 1717-9, 1748-50, 1753, 1755-7
    >>Funding
    >>>50-50 cost share, 9949
    >>>$500 million new funding, 9632
    >>>$4 billion increase, Reform Party proposal, 9949
    >>>Budget 1997 measures, 9145
    >>>>Provincial jurisdiction, interference in, 10047-8
    >>>>Partial restoration, 9193-4
    >>>>>o.q., 8312
    >>>>See also Health care system--Efficiency
    >>>Cash floor, 6281
    >>>>o.q., 8592, 8653
    >>>Cut-backs, 5835, 5856-7, 5861, 5865-6, 6581-2, 7408, 7978-9
    >>>>40%, Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, 8334, 8340-1, 9517, 10086
    >>>>$7 billion by 2007, 5996, 9181-2
    >>>>>o.q., 8591-2
    >>>>British Columbia, impact, S.O. 31, 7777, 8385
    >>>>Excessive, o.q., 5734, 8652, 8654, 8657
    >>>>Hospitals, closures, federal government responsibility, 9517, 9519-20, 9557, 9567, 9944
    >>>>>Cut-backs, no room for emergencies, G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital, Quesnel, B.C., example, 10085-6
    >>>>>Disputing, S.O. 31, 9014, 9078
    >>>>>o.q., 8509, 8590-1, 8652-4, 8729-32, 8780-1
    >>>>Reform Party influence, 5838
    >>>>Reform Party proposals, 1510, 6581, 8214-5
    >>>>>o.q., 8653, 9019
    >>>Decline, 322, 330-2, 1721-2
    >>>>o.q., 427
    >>>Established Programs Financing, 1722-3, 1745, 1789
    >>>Increase, 7412
    >>>>1998-20001, 10087
    >>>Liberal Party election promise, "red book", o.q., 5736-7, 5957
    >>>Priority, establishing, 10053
    >>>Reform Party position, 740, 1777-8, 5757-8, 5854, 5856-7, 7409, 7411
    >>>>o.q., 427, 5736-7, 5807, 5883, 5957, 7148, 8654, 8657, 8730
    >>>>S.O. 31, 9319-20
    >>>Stabilization, 1536
    >>>>o.q., 427
    >>>>Provinces, role, o.q., 7148
    >>>Tax points, transfer to provinces, 10087
    >>>Transfer to provinces, Quebec, eliminating duplication, etc., 330, 1751, 1757-8, 1781, 1789-90
    >>>See also Goods and Services Tax--Abolition/replacement, Harmonization
    >>Health and dental plans
    >>>Benefits, taxation proposal, opposition, petition, 97, 275, 368, 1330, 1775, 1899-900, 2213, 2851, 3641, 4088, 4158, 4351, 4448, 6012, 6378
    >>>Tax deduction, extending to self-employed, Finance Standing Committee recommendation, 7221
    >>Health data, co-ordinated national system, Canada Health Information System, establishing, $50 million funding, Budget 1997 measure, 8295, 9565, 10047
    >>Health transition fund, $150 million for pilot projects, Budget 1997 measure, 9565, 10047
    >>Home care
    >>>Drug coverage and other innovations, provincial pilot projects, $150 million funding, Budget 1997 measure, 8295, 8331, 8342
    >>>>Quebec program, conflict, o.q., 8311-2
    >>>Hospice Association of Ontario, importance, Glaxo Wellcome, support, S.O. 31, 9374-5
    >>>National program, provincial jurisdiction, Bloc Quebecois position, o.q., 10118-9
    >>Improvements, Budget 1997 measures, 9145
    >>>S.O. 31, 8388
    >>>See also Health care system--Efficiency and effectiveness--Health data--Home care--Investment priority
    >>Investment priority, Budget 1997 statement, 8290
    >>LaMarsh, Judy, role, 9135
    >>National Forum on Health, 1477-8, 1747, 1750, 1755-7, 1787-9, 8295
    >>>Failure, 332
    >>>Findings, recommendations, 9565
    >>>>S.O. 31, 7880-1
    >>>S.O. 31, 7706
    >>>See also Health care--Efficiency and effectiveness
    >>National standards, 7797
    >>>Federal-provincial co-operation, management of interdependence, 7221-2
    >>National unity role, 1435
    >>North American Free Trade Agreement, negotiations, impact, 1326-7
    >>>o.q., 646, 1375, 1426
    >>Nova Scotia, reform
    >>>Eastern Kings Memorial Community Health Centre, S.O. 31, 1703
    >>>Valley Regional Hospital, regional health board jurisdiction, S.O. 31, 1285
    >>Nurses, health care role, importance
    >>>National Nursing Week, recognizing, S.O. 31, 2556
    >>>Ordre des infirmiéres et des infirmiers du Québec, annual convention, S.O. 31, 6360-1
    >>Ontario, cut-backs, 1553
    >>>Seniors citizens, children, pregnant women, impact, S.O. 31, 6952. 7234
    >>>User fees, Progressive Conservative government (Harris), imposing, Canada Health Act requirements, meeting, S.O. 31, 8902
    >>Other countries, comparison, 1748, 1784
    >>Pharmacare, national program, provincial jurisdiction, Bloc Quebecois position, o.q., 10118-9
    >>Physicians, Dr. Jake O'Connor, family physician of the year, Canadian College of Family Physicians, naming, S.O. 31, 3122
    >>Portability, 5834, 6022
    >>>Quebec not re-imbursing other provinces for care provided to Quebec residents, 6025
    >>Preserving/sustaining, 3, 55, 1477, 7271
    >>>Five principles, Canada Health Act, upholding, government commitment, 3, 287, 346, 830, 1435, 1441, 1444, 1753, 1781-3, 1931, 5032-3, 5834, 5979-80, 6017, 6281
    >>>>Budget 1996 statement, 373, 375, 459, 1474
    >>>>Budget 1997 statement, 8294, 8331, 8342
    >>>>o.q., 363, 4071
    >>>>Petition, 277-8, 4235, 4714, 4995, 5644, 7892
    >>>>S.O. 31, 5732, 6743-4, 6953, 9877
    >>>Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, "red book", 5764, 5851, 8327
    >>>Life Before Medicare, book, supporting, S.O. 31, 6954
    >>>National debt, impact, 1725-6
    >>>Reform Party position, 1750-2, 5981
    >>>>o.q., 241
    >>>>S.O. 31, 178
    >>Private insurance/clinics, allowing, 1778, 5834
    >>>Alberta, agreement, o.q., 3261
    >>>o.q., 2614
    >>Provinces, jurisdiction, 1717-8, 1722-3, 1742-4, 1752
    >>>Bloc Quebecois position, 1720-1, 1744-7, 1749-50, 1755-6, 1786-7, 1790, 5624 , 5973-4
    >>>Health Department, interference, 1786
    >>>>o.q., 240
    >>>o.q., 8732
    >>Reform
    >>>Liberal Party election promise, "red book", 330, 1756-7
    >>>Necessity, 5834-5
    >>>S.O. 31, 7655
    >>Reform Party policy, flip-flop, S.O. 31, 3630-1
    >>Reform Party/Progressive Conservative Party statements, 7062
    >>>Expensive, undesirable, 6874-5
    >>Rural Saskatchewan, New Democratic Party provincial government cut-backs, 321-2
    >>Sex lives, details, Statistics Canada survey, linkage, 5033
    >>Tax cuts, impact, Alberta and Ontario examples, etc., 10087
    >>Two-tier system, 1777-8, 5757, 5835
    >>>Alberta and British Columbia, 6025
    >>>Progressive Conservative Party position, 6735
    >>>Reform Party position, 417, 5845-7
    >>United States system, adopting, Reform Party position, 5863
    >>Universality, 5834
    >>User fees, Alberta, federal government position, 5851
    >>Waiting lists, 5834-5, 5860, 6025, 10086
    >>>Cancer treatment, 10045
    >>>o.q., 6962
    >>>S.O. 31, 8385
    >>See also Alcohol--Abuse; Canada Health Act; Canadian Heritage Department--Funding; Children; Drugs and pharmaceuticals--Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (Bill C-91)(3rd Sess., 34th Parl.); Employment--Increase; Goods and Services Tax--Housing and health care; Government expenditures--Reduction; Social programs--Education and health care; Tobacco--Use; Transfer payments to provinces--$7 billion reduction

Health Department

    >>Age and opportunity programs, expenditures, 7800
    >>Employees, appointment process, cultural minorities, discrimination, Canadian Human Rights Commission ruling, quota system, implementing, o.q., 9329-30
    >>Expenditures, number of employees, reducing, 293, 330
    >>Mandate, four business lines, 1748-9, 1752-3
    >>See also Arctic--Pollution, Conference; Blood--Blood management system; Canadian Food Inspection Agency--Consolidation; Department of Health Act (Bill C-18); Health care system--Provinces; Sexual orientation--Homosexuality/homosexuals, Legitimacy

Health food industry see Drugs and pharmaceuticals--Controlled drugs and substances

Health foods see Drugs and pharmaceuticals

Health Minister see Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Health Protection Branch see Drugs and Pharmaceuticals--Calcium channel blockers

Health services see Victims of crime--Services

Health services research fund see Health care system--Efficiency

Health Services Restructuring Committee see Francophones outside Quebec--Ontario, Montfort Hospital

Health Standing Committee

    >>Membership see Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, Thirteenth
    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First (Main Estimates, Mar. 31, 1997), 3933
    >>>Third (National Organ Donor Day Act (Bill C-202)), 6411
    >>>Fourth (Tobacco Act (Bill C-71)), 7390
    >>>Fifth (Tobacco Products Control Act (amdt.)(Bill C-24)), 7390
    >>>Sixth (Tobacco Act (Bill C-71) transitional provisions re sponsorship clauses), 7423
    >>>Seventh (Towards Well-Being: Strategies for Healthy Children), 9845
    >>>Eighth (Human Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Act (Bill C-47), 9804
    >>>Ninth (tobacco regulations), 10143
    >>See also Children--Health and safety; Drug/substance abuse--Drug strategy; Tobacco industry--Regulations

Health transition fund see Health care system

Healthy Harvestfest see Health care system--Family medicine

Heartland Livestock Services see Cattle industry--Feed loans

Hebco International

    >>Sorel, Que., research centre/assembly plant, $1.3 million government grant, job creation, S.O. 31, 7779-80

Hébert, Anne see Universities/colleges--University of Sherbrooke

Hebron, West Bank see Middle East--Peace process

Hedin, Devon see Dangerous driving--Reed, Ryan

Hees, Hon. George

    >>Member of Parliament, former, death, tribute, 3928-32

Height see Discrimination and racism--Appearance

Heiltsuk band see Fisheries--Native-only commercial fishery

Helicopters see Defence equipment

Hellenic Friends of the Auxillary of the Royal Victoria Hospital see Health--Cancer, Breast cancer

Helms-Burton bill see Trade--Cuba

Helms, Senator Jesse see Trade--Cuba

Hemophilia see Health

Hemp

    >>Industrial use, legalizing, controlling, 6287
    >>>Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Bill C-8), relationship, 4163, 4166-7
    >>>Petition, 4158, 4351

Henry, Mike

    >>Retirement, Guelph Chamber of Commerce General Manager, S.O. 31, 1583

Hepatitis C see Blood--Blood management system; Penitentiaries--Inmates

Herbs see Drugs and pharmaceuticals--Health foods

Hercules aircraft see Defence equipment--Aircraft

Heritage

    >>Coureurs des bois, 6,000 kilometer canoe journey, Alain Bourbeau, Jean-Philippe Bourgeois, recreating, S.O. 31, 5472
    >>Heritage Canada Foundation, Gabrielle Léger award, Ruth Redmond, recipient, S.o. 31, 6852

Heritage Canada Foundation see Heritage

Heritage Day

    >>Third Monday of February
    >>>Celebrating, S.O. 31, 8189-90
    >>>Official holiday, declaring, 4234-5
    >>See also National Heritage Day Act (Bill C-323)

Heritage department see Canadian Heritage Department

Heritage Front see Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Heritage Front Affair, Our View, The see Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, First

Hermanson, Elwin (REF--Kindersley--Lloydminster)