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Yaroslav Baran's lobbying: the clients they represent and every meeting they've reported since November 2021.

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Yaroslav Baran

Pendulum

Former public offices

  • Chief of Staff, Office of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, House of Commons (2008–2009)
  • Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Government Whip, House of Commons (2008–2008)
  • Manager of Strategic Communications, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons (2005–2005)
  • Manager of Public Relations, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons (2004–2005)
  • Manager of Media Services, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons (2002–2004)
  • Legislative Assistant, Office of Scott Reid, MP, House of Commons (2001–2002)
  • Internal Communications Coordinator, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons (2000–2001)
  • Special Lobby Assistant, Office of the Chief Opposition Whip, House of Commons (1997–2000)
Meetings this Parliament
13
Since Nov 2021
22
Active registrations
1

Reported meetings

  • Railway Association of Canada
    • Duncan Wilson · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Labour matters affecting railways, including methods of resolving labour disputes affecting critical trade infrastructure. Read more

    Reject calls to reintroduce extended regulated interswitching.

    Proliferation of separate, dedicated rail lines for passenger vs freight where there justified by significant freight and passenger rail activity.

    Implement a shortline investment tax credit to revitalize regional supply chains and strengthen first-mile, last-mile rail connections.

    Tariff relief for rail equipment.

    Implement 100% immediate capital depreciation for investments in railway infrastructure, matching the policy currently in place in the U.S.

    Modernizing regulatory frameworks to enable the adoption of safety technologies that have been proven, through real-world data, to outperform outdated manual inspection requirements.

    Official report

  • Railway Association of Canada
    Labour matters affecting railways, including methods of resolving labour disputes affecting critical trade infrastructure. Read more

    Stacking of new leave entitlements such as paid sick leave and personal leave days under the Canada Labour Code.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.) Read more

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada. Read more

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Buckley Belanger · Secretary of State, Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office)
    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada. Read more

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.) Read more

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Keiran Gibbs · Director of Policy, Justice Canada (JC)
    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Dan Lussier · Director of Policy, Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan)
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Annina Plummer · Prairies and North Advisor to the Minister, Public Safety Canada (PS)
    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada. Read more

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Jeff Waring · ADM, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Janet Goulding · Sr. ADM, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Matt de Vlieger · ADM, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Erin Lynch · ADM, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Railway Association of Canada
    Modernizing regulatory frameworks to enable the adoption of safety technologies that have been proven, through real-world data, to outperform outdated manual inspection requirements. Read more

    Implement a shortline investment tax credit to revitalize regional supply chains and strengthen first-mile, last-mile rail connections.

    Labour matters affecting railways, including methods of resolving labour disputes affecting critical trade infrastructure.

    Proliferation of separate, dedicated rail lines for passenger vs freight where there justified by significant freight and passenger rail activity.

    Tariff relief for rail equipment.

    Implement 100% immediate capital depreciation for investments in railway infrastructure, matching the policy currently in place in the U.S.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Anne McGrath · Principal Secretary to the Leader, House of Commons
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada. Read more

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Vida Ebadi · Regional Advisor, West and Prairies, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders.

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Fraser Tolmie · MP
    • Leslyn Lewis · MP
    • Marty Morantz · MP, House of Commons
    • Darren Hall · Policy Advisor, House of Commons
    and 1 more
    • Jwane Izzetpanah · Manager of Stakeholder Relations, House of Commons
    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Canada Community-Building Fund - with respect to its overall budget size and scope

    Municipal transfers and municipal funding model - exploring new funding mechanisms for municipalities beyond gas tax transfers and program-specific conditional programs. Creation of a new dedicated federal transfer for municipal core infrastructure - to provide discretionary funding to municipalities for water and wastewater projects. Presumably housed at Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada.

    Official report

  • Association of Manitoba Municipalities
    • Annina Plummer · Prairies and North Advisor to the Minister, Public Safety Canada (PS)
    Bail and Parole system reform to make release provisions more stringent for violent offenders, property offenders and repeat offenders. Read more

    Policing costs - federal transfers (source at discretion of the Crown) to offset increased policing costs associated with federal government actions and decisions (for example, increases in remuneration beyond CPI, universal body camera requirements, etc.)

    Official report

  • Weatherhaven
    • Oz Jungic · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    Foreign AffairsGovernment ProcurementHealthInfrastructureInternational Relations

    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.