Organization
CANADIAN PORK COUNCIL
- Meetings this Parliament
- 52
- With MPs
- 29
- Since Nov 2021
- 96
- Active registrations
- 1
Most recent reported meeting: Sep 29, 2026.
Lobbying by CANADIAN PORK COUNCIL: its registrations, its lobbyists, the bills it has named and every meeting it has reported with federal office holders since November 2021.
← LobbyingRegistrations in effect
In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 15, 2026 Receives government funding
Filed by Katerina Kolemishevska, President and CEO
Lobbyists
- Claire Citeau · Vice President of Trade and Public Affairs
- Katerina Kolemishevska · Interin CEO
- Rene Roy · Chair
Institutions they may lobby: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Farm Credit Canada (FCC), Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Public Safety Canada (PS), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan)
What they're lobbying on (20)Hide details
- Canada-China trade relations with regard to maintaining and expanding market access for Canadian pork and pork products, including the reduction or removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers and other regulatory or technical restrictions affecting trade.
- Processing capacity in the Canadian pork sector, with regards to supporting investment, infrastructure and pathways to expand federally certified processing capacity, strengthen sector resilience and improve access to domestic and international markets
- Bill C-273, the Facilitating Agricultural Regulatory Modernization Act (FARM Act), with regards to supporting regulatory modernization and approvals for agricultural inputs and certain food and veterinary products through recognition of decisions by trusted foreign regulators
- Business Risk Management programs with regard to strengthening and modernizing tools available to pork producers, including AgriStability and livestock insurance, to better reflect production costs, market volatility, severe losses and the cyclical nature of hog production
- Interprovincial trade in meat and meat products, with regard to proposed amendments to the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, maintaining nationally consistent food safety and animal health standards, and supporting pathways for additional processing facilities to achieve federal certification
- Internal cooking temperature for pork, with regard to updating federal guidance to recognize a science-based standard supported by validated research and current food safety evidence
- Research facilities and infrastructure with regard to maintaining and strengthening Canadian research capacity in swine health, production, innovation and sector competitiveness
- Trade diversification and expanded market access for Canadian pork and pork products, including zoning agreements, foreign market-access audits, and other measures that support the opening and maintenance of export markets.
- Improved international market access for Canadian pork and pork products, including the reduction or elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory, sanitary and phytosanitary, and technical measures that restrict or impede trade.
- The World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement as it is related to the negotiations on Agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA),Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), with respect to Meat Inspection Regulation 1990 and, Product of Canada guidelines and how it affects food products labeling on packaging
- Measures to prevent the entry of a reportable disease outbreak such as ASF or other listed in the health of animals act
- Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) matters related to live animals and pork.
- Canada-European Union comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement as it relates to maket access for pork.
- Advance Payments Program with regards to improving terms that gives producers access to credit through cash advances.
- United States Country of Origin Labelling (vPUSA) regulations as they relate to Canadian live swine and the Government of Canada's participation in a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute panel on Country of Origin Labelling(COOL)
- Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
- Income Tax Act as it relates to agriculture with a specific interest in changes to the tax treatment of privately held corporations
- Canada-South Korea Trade Agreement as it relates to market access for pork.
- AgriStability's policy on caps, and declining margins in relation to the hog industry
Registration 966233-11850-43. Look it up in the official Registry
Reported meetings
SpreadsheetFiled by Stephen Heckbert (83), Katerina Kolemishevska (13).
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Brandan Rowe · Chief of Staff, Privy Council Office (PCO)
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Sébastien Lemire · Member of Parliament
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Yves-François Blanchet · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Sukh Dhaliwal · Member of Parliament
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Kerry Diotte · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Randy Hoback · Member of Parliament
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Steven MacKinnon · Leader of the Government in House of Commons
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Todd Lewis · Senator, Senate of Canada
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Jean-Denis Garon · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Claude DeBellefeuille · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Kelly Block · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Dave Epp · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Kevin Lamoureux · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Mary Robinson · Senator, Senate of Canada
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Heath MacDonald · Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Jacques Gourde · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Kent MacDonald · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Michael Coteau · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Maria Morley · Chief of Staff to the Minister Buckley Belanger, House of Commons
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- James Bezan · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Kody Blois · Member of Parliament
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork. Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Robert Black · Senator, Senate of Canada
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Ginette Lavack · Member of Parliament
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act Read more
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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Reported by Stephen Heckbert · In-house (organization)
- Marianne Dandurand · Member of Parliament
Temporary Foreign Workers Program with regard to improving terms to address acute labour shortage for livestock industry Read more
measures to prevent the entry a reportable disease listed in the health of animals act
Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) issues related to live animals and pork.
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.