Candace Chartier, André Picard, Åke Blomqvist, Colin Busby
Funding Long-Term Care: Can We Handle It?
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In the debate over Canadian health policy, long-term care is often held up as an anomaly: it is a form of healthcare that is urgently needed but is not covered by our publicly-funded health care system. The C.D. Howe Institute is actively researching the expected cost of long-term care, the financial risks to which Canadian families are exposed, and methods to account for costs.
The Institute was pleased to host a private discussion with acclaimed experts in the field: Candace Chartier, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Long Term Care Association; André Picard, Health Columnist, The Globe and Mail; Åke Blomqvist, Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University; Colin Busby, Senior Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute. At the off-the-record roundtable, participants received a copy of the paper and participated in a discussion about its conclusions.
Candace Chartier brings her wealth of sector experience to her role as Chief Executive Officer at Ontario Long Term Care Association (OLTCA). She began working in the field as a charge nurse at Frost Manor in Lindsay, Ontario and has experience working in the Acute Care Sector, Rehabilitation, Community Nursing and the Aeromedical Nursing fields. Since entering the field, she held progressive positions within OMNI Health Care over her 17 years there, including as a registered nurse, administrator, director of care, and most recently Chief Operating Officer, before joining OLTCA as Chief Executive Officer.
Ms. Chartier received an executive MBA from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business. She is a strong leader, effective communicator and practiced health care professional who leads and delivers results on wide ranging and complex projects. She is a strong advocate for long term care and actively involved with various committees and sits on a number of tables. Her current involvement includes participation on the Health System Funding Reform Steering Committee; Long Term Care Stakeholder Liaison Committee; Change Committee; Health Quality Ontario Partnership Table; System Strategy Council; Ontario Health Providers Alliance; Multi Sector Rural Health Hub Advisory Panel; Nurse Practitioner Advisory Expert Panel; Cancer Care Ontario Advisory Panel; and Long Term Care Executive Roadmap Committee.
André Picard is a health columnist at The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff writer since 1987. He is also the author of four bestselling books.
André has received much acclaim for his writing. He is an eight-time nominee for the National Newspaper Awards, Canada's top journalism prize, and past winner of prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism.
André’s healthcare advocacy has been recognized by a number of groups, most notably the Canadian Public Health Association, which named him Canada's first "Public Health Hero." Last year, he received Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his lifelong commitment to improving Canada’s health system.
Åke Blomqvist received his undergraduate education in his native Sweden, and a PhD from Princeton University in 1971. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario where he taught between 1968 and 2002.
From 2002 till 2010 he lived in Asia, serving as Head of Economics in the National University of Singapore 2002-06 and as Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing in 2009-2010.
Effective 2011, he is Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Health Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Blomqvist’s two principal areas of research have been the economics of developing countries, and the economics of health care. His work has been published both in the journals and in more policy-oriented outlets. Much of his writing in health economics has had an international comparative flavour. Most recently, it has focused on health system reform in China.
Colin Busby was awarded the 2007 C.D. Howe Research Fellowship and joined the Institute as an analyst thereafter. While writing broadly on economic issues, his emphasis is on fiscal and social policy with a concentration on demographic and labour market concerns. Colin is now focusing his attention on healthcare financing and funding.
Before he began his term at the C.D. Howe Institute, Colin worked at Industry Canada and for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna.
Colin holds a BComm from the University of Alberta and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Ottawa. He also studied in Paris and is bilingual.
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