Please ask Federal Candidates To Support ADHD Bill C-329. An Act To Establish A National Framework Respecting ADHD.
This is a private member’s bill by NDP MP Heather McPherson, Edmonton Strathcona, whose son Mac has gone public with having ADHD. It went to first reading, but there is a lottery to decide which bills go further, and she lost out. Let’s make bill C-329 happen.
Ideally, I should have done this at the start of the election, but better late than never, eh?
Parliament passed private members’ Bill C-230. March 28 2023. An Act respecting a federal framework on Autism Spectrum Disorder by Conservative Quebec Senator Leo Housakos.
Parliament should pass Bill C-329. An Act To Establish A National Framework Respecting ADHD.
The best is in person. I’m going to a second all-candidates debate tonight, but you can also try phone, email, or maybe social media. However, social media is less likely to work nowadays. Politicians are more one-way marketing robots vs. two-way conversation types online, especially because of far-right trolls harassing them. Best time to ask a politician a question is when they want your vote during an election.
If they say yes, they will please leave a comment on this post or email me at pete AT addcoach4u.com
Bonus points if you have audio or video. If you’re willing, please post it on your social media, and I’ll post it here and on my Bluesky and Facebook accounts.
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA.
BILL C-329
An Act to establish a national framework respecting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
FIRST READING, MARCH 30, 2023
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-329/first-reading
SUMMARY
This enactment provides for the development of a national framework on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Development
3 (1) The Minister must, in consultation with the representatives of the provincial governments and Indigenous governing bodies responsible for health and education, as well as other relevant stakeholders, develop a national framework on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Content
(2) The national framework must include measures to
- (a) provide for the development of resources to help individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and their families better recognize, understand and manage the disorder;
- (b) ensure that educators are equipped with the knowledge, training and resources needed to support students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and related learning comorbid disorders;
- (c) improve training for medical and mental health practitioners on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
- (d) ensure that all medical and mental health practitioners can access training and support in relation to evidence-based approaches to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- disorder assessment and treatment; and
- (e) facilitate equitable access for individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and their families to medical and mental health practitioners who have received training on this disorder.
Reports to Parliament
Tabling of a national framework
4 (1) Within two years after the day on which this Act comes into force, the Minister must prepare a report setting out the national framework and cause it to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the report is completed.
Publication
(2) The Minister must publish the report on the website of the Department of Health within 10 days after the day on which it is tabled in both Houses of Parliament.
Report
5 (1) Within five years after the report referred to in section 4 has been tabled in both Houses of Parliament, the Minister must prepare a report on the effectiveness of the national framework that also sets out the Minister’s conclusions and recommendations.
Tabling of the report
(2) The Minister must cause the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the report is completed.
Publication
(3) The Minister must publish the report on the website of the Department of Health within 10 days after the day on which it is tabled in both Houses of Parliament.
Why should the ADHD bill C-329 matter to ADHD people?
It’s a nightmare to find someone who can give you a competent diagnosis for ADHD in ADHD hostile BC, let alone other provinces
Most doctors have either no training or an inadequate training on ADHD and can’t give you a competent diagnosis in BC. There should be mandatory CME courses on them for ALL doctors, but the governments and the College of Physicians & Surgeons refuse to do so.
For the very small number of people who can diagnose ADHD, they often have long waitlists and closed waitlists.
ADHD hostile & negligent provincial governments are violating the Canada Medicare Act, on public administration, comprehensiveness, universality and accessibility. Hope some ADHD person sues them.
They’ve de facto privatized ADHD diagnosis & treatment by neglect to private Nurse Practitioner clinics for up to $600 and $80 to adjust meds. Many of us can’t afford this.
As an adult ADHD coach who started and ran the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group for 17 years & has been on the board for CHADD Vancouver for 17 years, (RIP), I’ve heard enough ADHD horror stories on ADHD assessment & medication that if I wrote them all down, I’d have a book.
I’ve been sending out a list of people who can diagnose and treat ADHD in Metro Vancouver for 20 years, thousands of times. Why? No need to do this for depression or anxiety disorders.
The majority of adults with ADHD are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with depression or anxiety disorders
BCNDP, through its human rights discrimination and neglect of ADHD, are violating the Canada Medicare Act and its own BC Medicare Protection Act on ADHD in 4 of the 5 areas. They have de facto privatized diagnosis to private nurse practitioners. Costing $600 for a diagnosis, $80 to adjust medications. Many can’t afford this. ROI of governments neglect of us?
20-40% of people with SUD have ADHD
21-45% of prisoners have ADHD 15 studies show
27% of homeless people. Only 5% of adults have ADHD
Had a far longer continuous period of homelessness vs non ADHD, 17.8 months vs 1.3 months.