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National Strategy on Brain Injuries Act

An Act to establish a national strategy on brain injuries

Summary

  • Requires the Minister of Health to develop a national strategy on brain injury awareness, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery in consultation with provinces, Indigenous groups, and stakeholders.
  • Mandates tabling the strategy in both Houses of Parliament within 18 months and publishing it online within 10 days of tabling.
  • Requires a five-year evaluation of the strategy’s effectiveness and a subsequent report to Parliament with conclusions and recommendations.
  • Focuses on coordination and planning rather than creating specific programs or funding mechanisms.

Builder Assessment

Vote No

While better brain injury outcomes can modestly improve productivity and reduce public costs, the bill is primarily a planning and reporting mandate with limited economic impact and an incremental scope. It neither advances core economic levers (investment, exports, taxes, deregulation) nor sets ambitious prosperity targets.

  • The bill’s benefits are indirect and long-term, lacking clear economic KPIs or mechanisms to realize productivity gains.
  • It adds process without explicit efficiency reforms or cost-saving mandates.
  • It is sector-specific and incremental rather than a large-scale prosperity initiative.
  • To better align: include measurable targets for return-to-work rates, reduced disability days, and healthcare cost savings; link federal funding to outcomes-based procurement and adoption of best practices; create a pan-Canadian data infrastructure for brain injury outcomes; fast-track commercialization and export pathways for Canadian neurotech/rehab innovations; and cap administrative overhead by using existing structures.

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Principles Analysis

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Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

Potential long-run productivity gains from fewer and better-treated brain injuries, but the bill is primarily a planning exercise with no direct economic measures.

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Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Adds consultation and reporting requirements that neither reduce red tape nor significantly expand it; impact on economic freedom is minimal.

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Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

Prevention and improved rehabilitation can reduce lost work days and disability, modestly supporting productivity, even if indirectly.

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Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No provisions affecting trade or exports.

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Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

Could incidentally inform health innovation priorities, but contains no direct incentives or programs for investment or R&D.

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Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

National coordination might reduce duplication, but added reporting could offset efficiency gains; net effect is uncertain.

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Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

No tax measures are included.

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Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

A narrow, strategy-only health initiative is incremental and does not materially shift national prosperity drivers.

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C-206

PartyNDP
StatusOutside the Order of Precedence
Last updatedJun 10, 2025
TopicsHealthcare, Social Issues
Parliament45