The formation and activities of the Canadian Caregivers Coalition; the increasing attention to caregiving by families, communities and academics; the inclusion of caregivers in the 2002 Report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; and the establishment of a federal Minister of State for Families and Caregivers all reflect that caregiving and caregivers are on the national polic [...] The Healthy Balance Research Program is a five-year Community Alliance for Health Research project funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and jointly led by the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, and the Institute of Population Health at the University of Ottawa. [...] A National Roundtable on Caregiving Policy in Canada – Summary Report 1 The aim of the roundtable was to discuss the policy implications emerging from the research findings, from both a Canadian and international perspective.1 Roundtable objectives were: • Communicating the policy implications of project research results to members of the Canadian policy community • Fostering discussion and innova [...] The well-being diamond is proposed as a framework to understand the complexity of caregiving and the appropriate responses.3 The perspective of roles and responsibilities that is inherent in the well-being diamond helps in understanding the interaction between the factors that shape the experiences of those who give and those who receive care. [...] Given the increased attention to caregiving in Canada, the authors of the research summary paper re-emphasize the importance of ethical frameworks to guide the renewal of caregiving policy.