Canada continues to face a persistent nursing shortage, driven in part by retention challenges, heavy workloads and rising cost-of-living pressures. That is why the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) is working to establish a new income tax incentive targeted to improve nursing retention.
In the most recent federal budget, the government introduced a refundable tax credit for personal support workers, recognizing the importance of supporting frontline health care workers through targeted federal tax measure. Providing a comparable federal tax credit for nurses would help recognize their contribution, support retention and recruitment, and strengthen access to public health care services across Canada.
MP Gord Johns has agreed to sponsor an e-petition in the House of Commons to pursue a federal tax credit for all designations of nurses in Canada. This is the momentum we need to get nurses the break they deserve.
In just three months, the CFNU’s parliamentary petition to create a refundable federal tax credit for nurses has received 22,364 signatures in support. Thank you to everyone who joined our call to give nurses the break they deserve. Follow CFNU for updates on the petition this fall.