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

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Registrant (responsible officer)

Michael Thom

Managing Director

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

Meetings this Parliament
17
Since Nov 2021
25
Active registrations
1

Reported meetings

    • Varun Srivatsan · Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Consumer Issues & Industry & Taxation and Finance - To advocate for the highest professional standards, integrity, and ethics in the investment industry for the ultimate benefit of Canadians (inclusive of the broader financial services industry), and for generalized tax reform to serve investors, grow investment and productivity, and to ensure the vitality and future of the asset and investment management sectors in Canada.

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    Official report

    • Salman Arif · Director, Stakeholders and Outreach, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada. Read more

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    - Consumer Issues & Industry & Taxation and Finance - To advocate for the highest professional standards, integrity, and ethics in the investment industry for the ultimate benefit of Canadians (inclusive of the broader financial services industry), and for generalized tax reform to serve investors, grow investment and productivity, and to ensure the vitality and future of the asset and investment management sectors in Canada.

    Official report

    • Salman Arif · Deputy Director, Stakeholders and Outreach, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Internal and International Trade - Advocate for the reduction of interprovincial trade barriers (particularly those related to the asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy). Advocate for the expansion of international trade agreements to grow the Canadian asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy. Advocate for an increase in exports of asset/investment management services from Canada to abroad, and to increasingly establish Canada as a world-leading center for these industries.

    Official report

    • Matthew O'Connell · Deputy Director Financial Sector Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    - Internal and International Trade - Advocate for the reduction of interprovincial trade barriers (particularly those related to the asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy). Advocate for the expansion of international trade agreements to grow the Canadian asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy. Advocate for an increase in exports of asset/investment management services from Canada to abroad, and to increasingly establish Canada as a world-leading center for these industries.

    - Justice and Law Enforcement & Constitutional Issues: Jurisdictional issues related to the financial services market. To advocate for more effective investigation, prosecution, and generally enforcement of financial-related criminal activity including criminal and quasi-criminal offences including but not limited to securities, money laundering, and terrorist financing.

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Consumer Issues & Industry & Taxation and Finance - To advocate for the highest professional standards, integrity, and ethics in the investment industry for the ultimate benefit of Canadians (inclusive of the broader financial services industry), and for generalized tax reform to serve investors, grow investment and productivity, and to ensure the vitality and future of the asset and investment management sectors in Canada.

    - Privacy and Access to Information - Discussion of privacy regulation as it relates to regulation of securities, investment management and financial services. Inclusive of data portability, consumer rights relating to personal data, and open banking.

    Official report

    • Donna Aronson · Director, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Employment and Training, & Small Business - To pursue mission-driven activities and outcomes that are aligned with our strategic objectives of advocacy, collaboration, and communication. To ensure Canada remains a world-class home and educator of financial and investment talent. Read more

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Consumer Issues & Industry & Taxation and Finance - To advocate for the highest professional standards, integrity, and ethics in the investment industry for the ultimate benefit of Canadians (inclusive of the broader financial services industry), and for generalized tax reform to serve investors, grow investment and productivity, and to ensure the vitality and future of the asset and investment management sectors in Canada.

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    - Internal and International Trade - Advocate for the reduction of interprovincial trade barriers (particularly those related to the asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy). Advocate for the expansion of international trade agreements to grow the Canadian asset/investment management industry, financial sector, and related service sectors of the Canadian economy. Advocate for an increase in exports of asset/investment management services from Canada to abroad, and to increasingly establish Canada as a world-leading center for these industries.

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Victoria Perak · Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Joshua Mbandi · Director Of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada. Read more

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Consumer Issues & Industry & Taxation and Finance - To advocate for the highest professional standards, integrity, and ethics in the investment industry for the ultimate benefit of Canadians (inclusive of the broader financial services industry), and for generalized tax reform to serve investors, grow investment and productivity, and to ensure the vitality and future of the asset and investment management sectors in Canada.

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Aline Dimitri · Director General, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    • Adele McCracken · Manager, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    • Nathalie Poirier-Mizon · Director, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    Official report

    • Clifton Lee-Sing · Director, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Khusro Saeedi · Senior Director, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Donna Aronson · Senior Policy Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Connor Ward · Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    and 4 more
    • Taheer Mohamed · Economist, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Justin Myers · Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Robert Sample · Director General, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Sean Keating · Director, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations. Read more

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Simran Arulraj · Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    • David McFarlane · Director of Policy, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    Official report

    • Simran Arulraj · Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada. Read more

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Matthew O'Connell · Deputy Director Financial Sector Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    Official report

    • Francesco Sorbara · Senior Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada. Read more

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Greg Reade · Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Donna Aronson · Senior Policy Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Robert Sample · Director General, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Taheer Mohamed · Economist, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada. Read more

    - Employment and Training, & Small Business - To pursue mission-driven activities and outcomes that are aligned with our strategic objectives of advocacy, collaboration, and communication.

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    Official report

    • Shane Baddeley · Director, Economic Development, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Amanda Riddell · Director, Real Property and Financial Institutions, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Warren Light · Expert Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Employment and Training, & Small Business - To pursue mission-driven activities and outcomes that are aligned with our strategic objectives of advocacy, collaboration, and communication.

    - Budget - Advocate for the financial literacy, retirement security, and well-being of Canadians, and the support of the asset management industry as a strategic industrial policy priority for Canada.

    Official report

    • Alan Cliff · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    - Employment and Training, & Small Business - To pursue mission-driven activities and outcomes that are aligned with our strategic objectives of advocacy, collaboration, and communication. Read more

    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; service taxation; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations.

    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada.

    Official report

    • Genevieve Brown · Executive Director, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the growth and financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    Official report

    • Donna Aronson · Senior Policy Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    - Taxation and Finance & Financial Institutions - Financial, securities, and other related regulation affecting capital markets, the financial system, investors and financial consumers, including but not limited to: financial reporting; systemic risk; education and credentialing; and other associated regulations. Read more

    Official report

    • Adam Chambers · Member of Parliament
    • Kyla Canzanese · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    - Economic Development - Matters relating to the financial stability of the Canadian economy, and the regulatory elements thereof including systemic risk-related regulation. Advocate for entrepreneurship, productivity, and growth of the investment/asset management sector in Canada. Read more

    Official report

    • Ryan Turnbull · Member of Parliament
    • Patrick Uguccioni · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons

    BudgetClimateConsumer IssuesEconomic DevelopmentEnvironmentFinancial InstitutionsIndustrySmall BusinessTaxation and Finance

    Official report

    • Savannah DeWolfe · Director, Policy and Legal Affairs, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

    Immigration

    Official report

    • Kyle Nicholson · Senior Advisor, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

    Immigration

    Official report

    • Kyle Nicholson · Senior Advisor, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

    Immigration

    Official report

    • Eric Gustavson · Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Farangies Shah · Senior Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    ClimateEducationEmployment and TrainingImmigrationLabour

    Official report

    • Kyle Nicholson · Senior Advisor, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

    ImmigrationLabour

    Official report

    • Kyle Nicholson · Policy Advisor, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

    Immigration

    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.