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

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Registrant (responsible officer)

Valerie Grdisa

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
62
Since Nov 2021
93
Active registrations
1

Reported meetings

    • Leigh Chapman · Chief Nursing Officer, Health Canada (HC)
    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Official report

  • Create a national licensure framework for nurses Read more

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Official report

  • Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form Read more

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing

    Official report

  • Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing Read more

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Official report

  • Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce Read more

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Official report

  • Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice Read more

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Official report

    • Hedy Fry · Member of Parliament
    • Kelly Chen · Policy and Scheduling Assistant, House of Commons
    Create a national licensure framework for nurses Read more

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Official report

    • Roy Karam · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy Read more

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Official report

    • Leigh Chapman · Chief Nursing Officer, Health Canada (HC)
    Create a national licensure framework for nurses Read more

    Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce

    Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.

    Official report

    • Dan Mazier · Member of Parliament
    • Kier Doyle · Parliamentary Assistant, House of Commons
    • Michael Kreshewski · Director of Parliamentary Affairs, House of Commons
    • Dominick Nedotiafko · Member's Assistant, House of Commons
    and 1 more
    • Jesse Lafontaine · Intern, House of Commons
    Support a Canadian Nurse Practitioner Initiative based on past similar initiatives Read more

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Funding to support nursing certification across Canada to strengthen the safe delivery of expert care to older adults.

    Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Official report

  • Create a national licensure framework for nurses

    Official report

    • Marjorie Michel · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Sandenga Yeba · Deputy Director of Policy, Health Canada (HC)
    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form Read more

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs.

    Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.

    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.

    Official report

    • Kamal Khera · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers. Read more

    Official report

    • Kamal Khera · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories. Read more

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Official report

  • Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories. Read more

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Official report

    • Mark Holland · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds. Read more

    Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.

    Official report

    • Ya'ara Saks · Member of Parliament, Health Canada (HC)
    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers. Read more

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Official report

    • Mark Holland · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories. Read more

    Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Official report

    • Mark Holland · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Jill Pilgrim · Director of Policy, Health Care Systems and Legal Affairs, Health Canada (HC)
    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy Read more

    Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds.

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.

    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.

    Official report

    • Tracy Gray · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • richard Ovcharovich · Chief of Staff, House of Commons
    Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds. Read more

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Funding to support nursing certification across Canada to strengthen the safe delivery of expert care to older adults.

    Official report

    • Jill Pilgrim · Director of Policy, Health Care Systems and Legal Affairs, Health Canada (HC)
    • elizabeth wong · policy advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy Read more

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Official report

    • darren choi · Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • elizabeth wong · policy advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Official report

    • Leigh Chapman · Chief Nursing Officer, Health Canada (HC)
    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form Read more

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.

    Official report

    • Stephen Ellis · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs. Read more

    Provide funding for a comprehensive, universal, public, affordable prescription medication coverage that ensures access in all health-care settings based on need and not the ability to pay

    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.

    Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Official report

    • rebecca patterson · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form Read more

    Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.

    Development of pan-Canadian standards for equal access, consistent quality, and necessary staffing, training and protocols for the long-term care sector, including home, community, and institutional settings, with increased funding and proper accountability measures and outcomes.

    Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.

    Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy

    Strengthening and creating programs to support illness prevention and health promotion, long term care, palliative care, home and community care, affordable housing and other social determinants of health

    Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs.

    Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

    Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.

    Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing

    Pandemic Planning and COVID-19: ensure all nurses are properly supported and protecting by ensuring appropriate stockpiling of PPE, support for mental health while on the front lines, support for nursing students, increased access to education and training when return to work or working in various care setting while responding to a pandemic, ensuring appropriate guidelines and resources are disseminated and developed and ensure senior nurses are part of discussions and advisory review boards during pandemics in planning phases as well as post pandemic in the review.

    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.