Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.Read more
Grocery Code of Conduct: Advocating for a mandatory and enforceable Grocery Code of Conduct for the food industry.
Bill C-5: An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act - and considerations around food safety and export diversification.Read more
Bill C-5: An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act - and considerations around food safety and export diversification.Read more
Serena Smith · Director of Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Immigration: Enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program and pathways to permanency for food and beverage processing labour.Read more
Science and Technology: ISED policies and programs to promote innovation and technology adoption in the food and beverage processing sector
Budget:
Measures in annual federal budget to support food and beverage processing, including implementation of Agri-food Economic Strategy Table Report.
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.Read more
Immigration: Enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program and pathways to permanency for food and beverage processing labour.
Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.
Lawrence Hanson · Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Industry: The adoption of innovation in the food and beverage sector in the context of the Strategic Innovation Fund.Read more
Budget:
Measures in annual federal budget to support food and beverage processing, including implementation of Agri-food Economic Strategy Table Report.
Lawrence Hanson · Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Hilary Peirce · Director of Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Immigration: Enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program and pathways to permanency for food and beverage processing labour.Read more
Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.
Industry: The adoption of innovation in the food and beverage sector in the context of the Strategic Innovation Fund.
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.Read more
Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.
Matthew Smith · Chief Agriculture Negotiator and Director General, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Donald Boucher · Director General, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.Read more
Rebecca Caldwell · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.Read more
Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.
Jwane Izzetpanah · Stakeholder Relations Advisor, House of Commons
Mark Emes · Policy Advisor, House of Commons
Agriculture:
Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.Read more
Paul MacKinnon · President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Lawrence MacAulay · Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Tom Rosser · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Maria Morley · Deputy Chief of Staff & Director of Operations, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Tariff and non-tariff barriers with the United States.Read more
Elliott Lockington · Chief of Staff to the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Nadia Kadri · Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Simon Laberge · Senior Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Randy Boissonnault · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Elliott Lockington · Chief of Staff to the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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.
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