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Living Donor Recognition Medal Act

An Act respecting the establishment and award of a Living Donor Recognition Medal

Summary

  • Establishes a Living Donor Recognition Medal for Canadian citizens and permanent residents who donate an organ or human tissue during their lifetime.
  • Authorizes the Governor in Council to determine the medal’s design, eligibility details, and regulations for nominations, exclusions, presentation, and post-nominals.
  • Requires public presentations where possible by a Crown representative, Senator, or MP, while excluding Senators and MPs from eligibility.
  • Mandates an annual report to Parliament on the number of medals awarded and a one-year implementation report explaining any delays.
  • Defines "organ" to include any form of human tissue, potentially broadening eligibility significantly unless narrowed by regulation.

Builder Assessment

Abstain

Principles Analysis

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Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

Primarily symbolic; any prosperity effects are indirect via potential health system relief, which is speculative.

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Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Creates a new honours process and reporting but does not materially affect economic freedom or reduce red tape.

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Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

Improved transplant outcomes may marginally aid productivity, but the medal itself does not change competitiveness drivers.

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Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No relation to trade or exports.

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Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

No connection to capital formation, R&D, or resource development.

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Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

Adds administrative design, nomination, ceremony, and reporting functions with unclear measurable savings; broad eligibility could inflate costs.

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Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

No tax provisions.

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Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

A recognition medal is a symbolic, incremental measure with no meaningful impact on large-scale prosperity.

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C-234

PartyConservative
StatusOutside the Order of Precedence
Last updatedSep 22, 2025
TopicsSocial Issues
Parliament45