Tom Rosser · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Domestic processing: Advocating for a targeted federal support program to assist small and medium-sized beef processors who are experiencing severe financial stress due to limited cattle supply and rising input costs. The program would aim to stabilize operations, preserve regional processing capacity, and sustain employment through short-term financial relief and resilience measures developed in collaboration with the Government of CanadaRead more
Tom Rosser · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Jeremy Keats · Senior Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Guy Gallant · Chief of Staff, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Domestic processing: Advocating for a targeted federal support program to assist small and medium-sized beef processors who are experiencing severe financial stress due to limited cattle supply and rising input costs. The program would aim to stabilize operations, preserve regional processing capacity, and sustain employment through short-term financial relief and resilience measures developed in collaboration with the Government of CanadaRead more
Harpreet Kocchar · President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Canada US Regulatory Cooperation: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for greater regulatory alignment between Canada and the U.S. to achieve enhanced equivalency of inspection systems.Read more
Interprovincial Meat Trade Pilot Project:the Canadian Meat Council is advocating that all meat processed in Canada should be inspected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency under the new Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations.
Heath MacDonald · Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Lawrence Hanson · Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Guy Gallant · Chief of Staff, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Jeremy Keats · Senior Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Labour: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for a permanent food processing immigration stream, stemming from the success of the Agri-Food Pilot.Read more
Canada US Regulatory Cooperation: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for greater regulatory alignment between Canada and the U.S. to achieve enhanced equivalency of inspection systems.
John Hannaford · Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the European Union, Privy Council Office (PCO)
Canada-EU: the Canadian Meat Council is advocating for commercially viable access to Europe for Canadian beef and pork under the provisions of the Canada Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement -CETA.Read more
Mary Jane Ireland · Chief Veterinary Officer, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Canada US Regulatory Cooperation: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for greater regulatory alignment between Canada and the U.S. to achieve enhanced equivalency of inspection systems.Read more
Jeremy Keats · Senior Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Domestic processing: Advocating for a targeted federal support program to assist small and medium-sized beef processors who are experiencing severe financial stress due to limited cattle supply and rising input costs. The program would aim to stabilize operations, preserve regional processing capacity, and sustain employment through short-term financial relief and resilience measures developed in collaboration with the Government of CanadaRead more
Paul Moen · Chief of Staff, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Guy Gallant · Chief of Staff, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Domestic processing: Advocating for a targeted federal support program to assist small and medium-sized beef processors who are experiencing severe financial stress due to limited cattle supply and rising input costs. The program would aim to stabilize operations, preserve regional processing capacity, and sustain employment through short-term financial relief and resilience measures developed in collaboration with the Government of CanadaRead more
Paul MacKinnon · President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Canada US Regulatory Cooperation: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for greater regulatory alignment between Canada and the U.S. to achieve enhanced equivalency of inspection systems.Read more
International Barriers to Trade: The Canadian Meat Council seeks to eliminate or prevent out-dated, overly burdensome, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate technical requirements in other countries that can create unnecessary obstacles to trade, reduce competition and prevent Canadian exporters from participating in global supply under the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements.
The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for strengthened regulatory cooperation initiatives in regional, plurilateral and multilateral trade agreements to further facilitate trade.
Heath MacDonald · Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
International Barriers to Trade: The Canadian Meat Council seeks to eliminate or prevent out-dated, overly burdensome, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate technical requirements in other countries that can create unnecessary obstacles to trade, reduce competition and prevent Canadian exporters from participating in global supply under the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements.
The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for strengthened regulatory cooperation initiatives in regional, plurilateral and multilateral trade agreements to further facilitate trade.Read more
Jeremy Keats · Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
International Barriers to Trade: The Canadian Meat Council seeks to eliminate or prevent out-dated, overly burdensome, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate technical requirements in other countries that can create unnecessary obstacles to trade, reduce competition and prevent Canadian exporters from participating in global supply under the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements.
The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for strengthened regulatory cooperation initiatives in regional, plurilateral and multilateral trade agreements to further facilitate trade.Read more
Terrestrial animal diseases: Ensuring the Government of Canada is adequately prepared to respond to foreign animal diseases, including funding support for processors and zoning agreements with key trading partners.
Tom Rosser · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Lawrence Hanson · Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
International Barriers to Trade: The Canadian Meat Council seeks to eliminate or prevent out-dated, overly burdensome, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate technical requirements in other countries that can create unnecessary obstacles to trade, reduce competition and prevent Canadian exporters from participating in global supply under the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements.
The Canadian Meat Council is advocating for strengthened regulatory cooperation initiatives in regional, plurilateral and multilateral trade agreements to further facilitate trade.Read more
Terrestrial animal diseases: Ensuring the Government of Canada is adequately prepared to respond to foreign animal diseases, including funding support for processors and zoning agreements with key trading partners.
Terrestrial animal diseases: Ensuring the Government of Canada is adequately prepared to respond to foreign animal diseases, including funding support for processors and zoning agreements with key trading partners.Read more
Terrestrial animal diseases: Ensuring the Government of Canada is adequately prepared to respond to foreign animal diseases, including funding support for processors and zoning agreements with key trading partners.Read more
Paul MacKinnon · President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Robert Ianiro · Vice President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Increased Budget for CFIA: The Government of Canada should contribute an additional $10 million to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for food safety compliance promotion of the new Safe Food for Canadians Regulations over the period 2015-20. The Agency needs adequate resources to ensure that compliance with the new requirements is achieved quickly to ensure that Canada’s food safety system remains one of the very best in the world.Read more
Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Ensure that Canada continues to follow a science-based and risk-based regulatory approval system for food, especially for new and emerging technologies.Read more
Jeremy Keats · Policy Advisor, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Jack Lewis · Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Matthew Pollesel · Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Health Canada (HC)
Guillaume Bertrand · Director of Communications, Health Canada (HC)
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Josh Jagger · Senior Atlantic Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Sara Kasum · Parliamentary Affairs Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Roy Karam · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Richard Davies · Regional Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Yasmin Veiga · Regional Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Ensure that Canada continues to follow a science-based and risk-based regulatory approval system for food, especially for new and emerging technologies.Read more
Advocating for a fair and efficient railway transportation system that serves the needs of grain producers.Read more
Grain research and development, particularly ensuring that AAFC is properly staffed and resourced, continues downstream research, return to former levels of research funding, and modernize their R&D infrastructure and technology.
Grain research and development, particularly ensuring that AAFC is properly staffed and resourced, continues downstream research, return to former levels of research funding, and modernize their R&D infrastructure and technology.Read more
Richard Duke · Policy Advisor, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
International trade benefitting grain farmers, ensuring that exports of grain and grain products and imports of essential equipment and inputs remain tariff-free.Read more
International trade benefitting grain farmers, ensuring that exports of grain and grain products and imports of essential equipment and inputs remain tariff-free.Read more
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.
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