Skip to content

PolitiKit

Lobbying by WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION: its registrations, its lobbyists, the bills it has named and every meeting it has reported with federal office holders since November 2021.

← Lobbying

Organization

WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION

Meetings this Parliament
15
With MPs
4
Since Nov 2021
81
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 17, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Oct 1, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Jessica Clogg, Executive Director & Senior Counsel

Lobbyists

  • Andrew Gage · Staff Counsel
  • Anna Johnston · Staff Counsel
  • Deborah Carlson · Staff Counsel
  • Eugene Kung · Staff Counsel
  • Jessica Clogg · Executive Director & Senior Counsel
  • Michael Bissonnette · Staff Lawyer Former public office holder

    Formerly Coop student, Public Prosecution Service of Canada, Public Prosecution Service of Canada (2009–2009)

    Formerly Coop student hearing officer, Pacific Regional Enforcement Centre, Canada Border Services Agency (2009–2009)

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Parks Canada (PC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC)

What they're lobbying on (10)
  • To ensure that the legal and policy framework for so-called 'national interest' projects is environmentally sound, democratically legitimate, and constitutionally robust.
  • The federal government’s commitment to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, including a proposed federal biodiversity accountability act.
  • Legal implementation of the Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act; enactment and amendment of regulations under those acts; development of policies and guidance respecting impact assessment and pipeline regulatory reviews.
  • Introduction of measures to reduce impacts of shipping in marine protected areas.
  • Implement the Canadian Navigable Waters Act to introduce modern safeguards
  • Implementation of new Fisheries Act via regulation to restore lost protections and introduce modern safeguards.
  • Implementation of minimum standards for marine protected areas, development of marine spatial planning and marine protected area networks.
  • Green budget: Make a consolidated annual set of recommendations to the federal government regarding strategic fiscal and budgetary opportunities to address the most pressing issues regarding environmental sustainability in Canada
  • Coastal green infrastructure: Policy measures related to implementation of coastal green infrastructure as a sea level rise response strategy; development of a co-management framework for the Salish Sea and sub-regions of the Salish Sea; development and legal implementation of regional and sub-regional green infrastructure strategies.
  • Climate change: Development of a national climate change policy framework, national greenhouse gas reduction targets and plans to implement both (enabled through legislation, regulation and policy); legislative proposals related to legal accountability for climate-related loss and damage.

Registration 925711-12890-32. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    • Don McDonald · Regional Advisor, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)

    EnvironmentFisheries

    Official report

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    • Joyce Murray · Minister, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)

    EnvironmentFisheries

    Official report

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    • Steven Guilbeault · Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Michael Brewster · Director of Policy, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Ron Hallman · President and CEO, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Hilary Geller · Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    and 1 more
    • Isabelle Hurley · Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    Environment

    Official report

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    • Terrence Hubbard · President (Interim) and Vice-President, Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Patricia Brady · Vice President, External Relations and Strategic Policy, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    Environment

    Official report

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    Environment

    Official report

  • Reported by Jessica Clogg · In-house (organization)

    • Morgan McCullough · Policy Advisor, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)

    EnvironmentFisheries

    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.