In 2002, Canada tasked the Royal Commission on the Future of Healthcare with investigating the status of the healthcare system and providing recommendations for its sustainable future. Now, almost two decades after this study, the Second Royal Commission on the Future of Healthcare in Canada has been created to address the diverse and intricate aspects of healthcare policy that affect present-day Canada. Through this government-commissioned public inquiry into the future of Canada’s healthcare relations, funding, and services, delegates will have the ability to explore pertinent and current issues in Canadian healthcare policy. Canada has been frequently set up as an international example of a developed nation that enjoys high quality successful universal healthcare. However, glaring inequalities and deficiencies in the system remain to be comprehensively addressed. This committee will address issues within Indigenous healthcare, focusing on inequities in the way healthcare is serviced and received, issues of Indigenous healthcare funding, and mental health care. Additionally, discussions around reforming the Canada Health Act will occur as the committee examines the possible rise of healthcare privatization and the feasibility of universal pharmacare. Delegates in the Second Royal Commission on the Future of Healthcare in Canada will ultimately have to work together in examining the most pressing issues facing Canada’s healthcare system to provide practical and forward-thinking solutions.

Email: secondroyalcommission@mcmun.org

Chair

Ruofan Wang

Vice-Chair

Naomi Lyzun

Vice-Chair

Camisha Rahmatian