The barrier reaches you as a report, two years late.
By the time a procurement obstacle appears in an evaluation, the founder hit it two years ago and the clinician has stopped mentioning it. At this table they're two seats away, and it's Chatham House, so they'll say it plainly.
Thirteen jurisdictions.One preference, thirteen pathways.
The policy moved. The pathways didn't.
Buy Canadian took effect in December 2025 with health and pharmaceuticals among five strategic sectors. The Buy Ontario Act received royal assent days earlier. The federal threshold fell to five million dollars in June 2026.
Preference now exists. A hospital can prefer a Canadian supplier and still not know who they are, and a founder can qualify for that preference and never meet a procurement lead.
Whether these measures shift enough volume is genuinely debated. That debate is a reason to build the pathways, not to wait for them.
System, not just government.
Federal
- Health Canada
- Public Health Agency
- ISED
- CIHR
- Federal procurement
Provincial
- Ministries of health
- Ontario Health and its regional structures
- Provincial agencies and Crown bodies
Regional and municipal
- Public health units
- Ontario Health Teams
- Economic development
Health system
- Hospital procurement and supply chain
- Shared services organisations
- Clinical program leadership
Assessment and regulation
- Health technology assessment
- Regulatory affairs
- Privacy and data governance
As our guest, and never as a target.
No fee, permanently. Attendance is by invitation, and the rules are written for you before anyone else. Nobody buys stage time. Nobody is anyone's prospect. Nothing leaves the table.
There is no public record of who attends.
We publish no attendee register and no individual entry that a supplier or vendor could search, and your name does not appear in anything we put out about a room. Nobody can obtain a route to your office through MedTech North, and your attendance is not disclosed to the people on the other side of a procurement. What we hold is used to compose rooms and to correspond with you about them, under the same Chatham House terms that govern the table.