Nova Scotia puts the question on your health card renewal. We also switched to an opt out model.
It’s weird, Ontario does the same thing with our health card renewals (I think it’s opt in still though). But the article is claiming most of the new volunteers are from Ontario? I guess taxes come around more often than health card renewals do, but the jump seems odd.
Oh I agree that this is weird. And I’m not looking forward to the conspiracies that are going to come from this.
Also, if you change your mind between card renewals, you could contact your health authority and have it changed.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nearly 2.5 million Canadians have indicated they want to be organ and tissue donors, thanks to a Conservative private member’s bill that lets people tick a box on their annual tax return.
The question appeared on forms for the first time this past tax season in Ontario and Nunavut and 2,450,000 Canadians have declared they want to be donors, said Calgary MP Len Webber, the sponsor of Bill C-210.
Webber said he hopes the high turnout from Ontario and Nunavut will encourage other provinces and territories to include the option on their tax returns as well.
The process works much like another option during tax season: when filing, a person can consent to allow the CRA to send their current address to Elections Canada to ensure it’s up to date.
In this case, once someone has agreed to be an organ donor, their updated contact information is sent to the registry in their province or territory to finalize their registration.
Private members’ bills tend to be hard to pass because they are given less priority than government legislation, and are chosen for debate based on a lottery system.
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