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

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Registrant (responsible officer)

Candace Laing

President & 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
319
Since Nov 2021
449
Active registrations
1

Reported meetings

    • Dominic Rochon · Deputy Minister Deputy Minister and Chief Information Officer of Canada, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Galen Richardson · Director of Stakeholder Relations, Privy Council Office (PCO)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Danielle McDaid · Deputy Director, Strategic Trade Engagement, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Benjamin Ebella · Trade Commissioner, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Ting-Yu Kuo · Associate - Parliamentary Research, Senate of Canada
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Clément Gignac · Senator, Senate of Canada
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Rebecca Alty · Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs of Canada, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories Read more

    INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS - With respect to federal government policies to improve the economic potential, contribution and capacity of Canada's Indigenous peoples as well as providing more clarity regarding the role of business in the duty to consult and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

    Official report

  • TAXATION AND FINANCE - Maintaining and expanding real-time data made freely available to Canadian businesses, municipalities, academic researchers, and community groups. Read more

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Border infrastructure and CBSA programs/policies affecting importers and exporters.

    TAXATION AND FINANCE – With regard to the measurement and improvement of Canada’s tax competitiveness, including: reforming the taxation, remittance, filing and audit processes of Canadian businesses and tax policy which improves the competitiveness of the Canadian business environment

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Negotiating bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements and promoting them to Canadian businesses.

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE – With respect to issues relating to trade controls, including tariffs, import and export controls, sanctions, and trade remedies.

    Official report

    • Katherine Hay · Senator, Senate of Canada
    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Negotiating bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements and promoting them to Canadian businesses.

    Official report

    • Megan Nichols · Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Philippe-Andre Rodriguez · Deputy Director and Head of Policy, G7, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Noémie Fiset-Tremblay · Chief of Staff, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Border infrastructure and CBSA programs/policies affecting importers and exporters. Read more

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Improving federal laws and regulations pertaining to responsible business conduct rules for Canadian companies.

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE – With respect to issues relating to trade controls, including tariffs, import and export controls, sanctions, and trade remedies.

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Negotiating bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements and promoting them to Canadian businesses.

    LABOUR - Ensuring that any changes to the Canada Labour Code are implemented in response to defined and demonstrated issues and not to increase regulatory burdens for employers; minimizing labour disruption impacts on Canadian businesses and workers.

    TRANSPORTATION - Regarding the consistent funding of trade-enabling infrastructure projects; the development of a competitive and efficient transportation network including all modes of transportation; the fluidity and stability of supply chain operations, minimizing disruptions.

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Tony Maas · Senior Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    ENVIRONMENT – Promoting the harmonization of regulations with provinces; impacts of the federal carbon pricing legislation on businesses; implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change; review of Canada's environmental assessment process, and the Canadian Energy Regulator; carbon pricing regimes; carbon border adjustments; offset markets; and other policy measures towards Net Zero 2050 goals. Read more

    Official report

    • Owen Crawford-Lem · Policy Advisor, Transport Canada (TC)
    INFRASTRUCTURE - In regard to the development of a national infrastructure plan, priority infrastructure projects, border infrastructure, public private partnerships, funding models and government consultations. Read more

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    INFRASTRUCTURE – Improvement of Canada’s infrastructure through the National Infrastructure Assessment, National Supply Chains Strategy, and establishment of a Canada Trade Infrastructure Plan.

    LABOUR - Ensuring that any changes to the Canada Labour Code are implemented in response to defined and demonstrated issues and not to increase regulatory burdens for employers; minimizing labour disruption impacts on Canadian businesses and workers.

    TRANSPORTATION - Regarding the consistent funding of trade-enabling infrastructure projects; the development of a competitive and efficient transportation network including all modes of transportation; the fluidity and stability of supply chain operations, minimizing disruptions.

    Official report

    • Rajiv Gupta · Head, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories Read more

    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry.

    Official report

    • Darren Hall · Stakeholder Relations Advisor, House of Commons
    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry. Read more

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Joseph Leong · Director of Data Management, House of Commons
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories Read more

    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry.

    Official report

    • Jared Borgersen · Policy Advisor, House of Commons
    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry. Read more

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Aaron Wudrick · Director of Policy, House of Commons
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories Read more

    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry.

    Official report

    • Calum McPhee · Parliamentary Affairs Advisor, Public Safety Canada (PS)
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories Read more

    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry.

    Official report

    • Zachary Torok · Policy Advisor, Public Safety Canada (PS)
    CYBER SECURITY - Encouraging the government to prioritize cybersecurity innovation, talent development, and critical infrastructure resilience; modernize research and development; accelerate commercialization in the space; support the secure digitalization of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and improve the global competitiveness of Canada’s cybersecurity industry. Read more

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    Official report

    • Terry Cowl · Deputy Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Improving federal laws and regulations pertaining to responsible business conduct rules for Canadian companies.

    Official report

    • Miro Froehlich · Director of Policy, Privy Council Office (PCO)
    NATIONAL SECURITY/ECONOMIC SECURITY - Advancing policies related to enhancing Canada’s economic and national security. Key priorities include strengthening economic resilience, prudently navigating geopolitical challenges to trade and international relations, safeguarding business operations against new and emerging threats, and fostering conditions for economic growth. Read more

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Improving federal laws and regulations pertaining to responsible business conduct rules for Canadian companies.

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Negotiating bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements and promoting them to Canadian businesses.

    Official report

    • Sebastian Clarke · Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Juan David Gonzalez Camacho · Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING – National Workforce Strategy, programs that support small and medium sized enterprises, improving collection and dissemination of Labour Market Information, establishing the Employment Insurance Council to institutionalize social dialogue between workers and employers on issues related to employment and training needs, addressing barriers to labour mobility, improving effectiveness of employment supports and skills training. Read more

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories

    IMMIGRATION - Reducing regulatory burdens for employers; promoting immigration to small, rural and northern communities; supporting regional and local community immigration strategies; maintaining and modernizing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program; Facilitating pathways to permanent residency for temporary residents (international students and TFWs; expediting and simplifying foreign credential recognition, calling for an international student and global talent strategy; improving language training as well as settlement and employment supports to newcomers, aligning immigration programs with labour market needs, improving the Start-Up Visa process, improving client services to potential immigrants and newcomers.

    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.