Marjorie Michel

Marjorie Michel says urgent action is needed to improve men’s health—highlighting high rates of substance use disorder and certain cancers—and argues that enhancing men’s health will reduce suffering, improve well-being and save billions annually, supporting a men’s health strategy.

Marjorie Michel supports creating a national men’s health strategy and launched an online consultation to inform it. She says Canada must take action to improve the health of men and boys, favouring a non-partisan approach and cooperation with governments and community organizations.

Marjorie Michel supports investing in community-driven, culturally relevant, evidence-based addiction and overdose-response services, favoring local, collaborative, wraparound care rather than one-size-fits-all solutions to ensure people have access to care and support close to home.

Marjorie Michel supports legislation to enable safe sharing of digital health information across electronic systems, advocating breaking down data silos to improve care integration, patient access to records, and overall health-system connectivity.

Michel opposes moves that weaken universal vaccination norms, warning that the U.S. removal of a universal hepatitis B infant recommendation could harm Canadians. She stresses coordinated, nationwide vaccination policy, building trust in science, and protecting public health.

Marjorie Michel said her government is reviewing the expert committee's pharmacare recommendations but made no commitment to implement them, stressed such panels are non-binding, and stated her role is to negotiate bilateral deals with provinces and territories rather than proceed unilaterally.

Marjorie Michel says enrolling people is the essential first step to enable access to dental services; she emphasizes the program is new, acknowledges uptake may lag, and says her department is monitoring provider fees and working with providers to protect access and improve the program.

Voting Yea means supporting integration of addiction services into responses to drug possession and prioritizing treatment over punishment.