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Paul Deegan's lobbying: the registrations they file and every meeting they've reported since November 2021.

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Registrant (responsible officer)

Paul Deegan

President and Chief Executive Officer

For companies and organizations, the most senior paid officer files the registration and the monthly reports, whoever attended the meeting.

Meetings this Parliament
74
Since Nov 2021
291
Active registrations
1

Reported meetings

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Daniel Pye · Director News Remuneration, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Mark Schaan · Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Artificial Intelligence), Privy Council Office (PCO)
    • Samir Chhabra · Director General, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    • Alexandra Dostal · Sr. Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising. Read more

    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Scott Shortliffe · Executive Director, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Isabelle Mondou · Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Joelle Montminy · Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Miled Hill · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Mackenzy Metcalfe · Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Read more

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Miled Hill · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation. Read more

    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.

    Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Karen Hall · Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Shane Baddeley · Director, Economic Development, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Chad Hartnell · Director of Operations, Privy Council Office (PCO)
    Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement. Read more

    Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising.

    Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Andrew Cardozo · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Read more

    Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Steven Guilbeault · Minister of Canadian Heritage, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement. Read more

    Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Deputy Chief of Staff, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Copyright Act, with respect to copyrights and remuneration rights for news media organizations. Read more

    Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising.

    Eliminating commercial advertising, including branded content, associated with CBC/Radio-Canada’s news and public affairs properties.

    Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Pierre-Marc Lauzon · Director, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising. Read more

    Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.

    Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement.

    Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”

    Official report

  • News Media Canada
    • Brian MacKay · Director of Policy and Stakeholder Relations, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Copyright Act, with respect to copyrights and remuneration rights for news media organizations.

    Official report

From the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying's open data, published November 5, 2026. Reports cover oral, arranged meetings with designated public office holders since November 22, 2021; lobbyists file them by the 15th of the following month. Names of MPs are matched to the current House of Commons, and bills are linked when the lobbyist's own description makes clear which bill it means. Contains information licensed under the Open Data Licence Agreement — Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying. Licence. PolitiKit is independent and is not endorsed by the Commissioner of Lobbying.