Posts by Children's Healthcare Canada

Children’s Healthcare Canada wants to congratulate the Government of Canada on the introduction of Bill S-5, the Connected Care for Canadians Act, aimed at building a more integrated and responsive health system. This is an important and timely step toward improving how health information is shared and used across the country—benefiting children and youth, families, and providers alike. 

Yesterday, the Government of Alberta tabled legislation invoking the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to shield from legal challenge previous laws targeting transgender youth and adults. Among these measures is a 2024 law which prohibits doctors from providing treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to those under 16 for the purposes of gender affirmation.

The federal budget has been tabled, and the Liberals are hard at work getting the votes to pass it this week. The budget includes important investments in health infrastructure, affordability, and youth employment. However, for children, most of the announced funding measures are too downstream to make a difference for them.  

Ottawa, October 1, 2025 — Chronic underfunding and under-resourcing of children’s healthcare in Canada yield significant and measurable costs for children and youth, their families and indeed, Canada.  A new report commissioned by Children’s Healthcare Canada and Canada’s Children’s Hospital Foundations and conducted by Deloitte, the first national economic analysis of the return on investment in children’s healthcare in Canada, finds that the nation’s pediatric health systems are stretched thin, yet every dollar invested in children’s healthcare generates up to a nearly five-fold return.