An Act to establish a national strategy on brain injuries

Bill C-206 in 45-1 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill establishing a national strategy on brain injuries. Approximately 165,000 Canadians sustain a brain injury each year per the Brain Injury Canada coalition, with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a leading cause of disability and death among Canadians under 40. Hockey-related concussions, fall-related TBI in seniors, and intimate-partner-violence-related TBI in women represent the largest cohorts. The bill called for federal-provincial-territorial coordination on TBI prevention, recovery-program access (including federally-funded research at the Canadian Concussion Centre at Toronto Western Hospital), rehabilitation services, and Veterans Affairs Canada framework for military-service-acquired TBI. Did not pass second reading.