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Lobbying by CEMENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA: its registrations, its lobbyists, the bills it has named and every meeting it has reported with federal office holders since November 2021.

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Organization

CEMENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

Meetings this Parliament
74
With MPs
20
Since Nov 2021
257
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Aug 31, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Aug 4, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Adam Auer, President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Lobbyists

  • Adam Auer · President & CEO
  • Martha Murray · Vice President, Public Affairs and Advocacy
  • Rob Cooney · Vice-President, Construction Innovation
  • Sarah Petrevan · Vice President, Industrial Decarbonization and Sustainability

Institutions they may lobby: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Export Development Canada (EDC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), National Defence (DND), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

What they're lobbying on (38)
  • Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs.
  • Federal initiatives on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage to support investment by the cement industry in projects to reach the industry's net-zero ambition.
  • Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market
  • The Investing in Canada Plan, National Infrastructure Assessment and the Building Canada Plan: Gas Tax Fund in respect of funding to municipalities for infrastructure investments.
  • The Federal Hydrogen Strategy and the role of the cement and concrete industry as hydrogen end users
  • The Federal Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) and their impact on cost competitiveness of the cement and concrete industry
  • The announced climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy and the role of cement and concrete to reach Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan
  • Scientific Research and Development Tax Incentive Program and the design scope of programs applicable to the cement industry.
  • Renewable Fuels Regulations in respect of incentives for energy from renewable sources.
  • Public-Private Partnership and in respect of the P3 Crown Corporation.
  • National Sustainable Development Act, in respect of materials and design consideration in sustainable construction.
  • National Pollutant Release Inventory policy regarding air emissions.
  • National highways policies and programs and the design and life cycle assessment and costing of roads and highways.
  • National Building Code of Canada with respect to proposed amendments to include lower carbon materials and fire safety
  • Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (MRIF) policy or program in respect of advocating for concrete highways and concrete infrastructure
  • Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program: Provincial-Territorial Funding in regards to infrastructure spending and promoting sustainability and life-cycle assessment and costing requirements for projects.
  • Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program: GST Rebate in respect of manufacturing tax costs.
  • Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program: Gateways & Border Crossings Fund in respect of improvements to the flow of goods across borders through the promotion of concrete infrastructure.
  • Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, the National Infrastructure Assessment and Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund (CSIF) and is respect of life cycle assessment and costing and design requirements for projects.
  • Introduction of carbon contracts for difference to support long-term investment by the cement industry in projects to support lower carbon cement and concrete
  • Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.
  • Infrastructure Canada Program (ICP) in respect of funding design, requirements and implementation.
  • Import Tariff on Manufacturing Machinery and Equipment in respect of lowering or elimination of tariffs on imported machinery and equipment.
  • Greening of Federal Government procurement policies and programs in respect of sustainability and adoption of lower carbon concrete.
  • Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and related Output-Based Pricing System regulations in respect of GHG and air emissions and carbon pricing.
  • Greenhouse gas inventory policy or program in respect of the consultations with industry and federal-provincial harmonization and greenhouse gas emission reporting under a national single window system.
  • Federal Contaminated Sites Management in respect of design and funding requirements for projects.
  • Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan regarding brownfield sites and the promotion of cement based solidification and stabilization technology choices for projects.
  • Clean Energy Fund Program in respect of renewable and clean energy and Energy Innovation Program to support low-carbon fuels research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects
  • Chemicals Management Plan policy or program regarding air emissions and industrial management requirements for chemicals.
  • Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act and cement and concrete industry goals to reach 'net zero' emissions reductions from concrete products
  • Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (ecoENERGY for Industry) in respect of the study of energy efficiency, conservation and energy use in industrial processes.
  • Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, relating to regulations and voluntary programs pertaining to greenhouse gas emissions and the potential development of caps on emissions or other regulatory instruments to limit emissions from industrial sources.
  • Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, relating to air emissions regulations and assessment requirements for infrastructure projects.
  • Building Canada Plan & Investing in Canada Plan: Building Canada Fund and the National Infrastructure Assessment regarding the funding and expansion of sustainable concrete infrastructure investments.
  • Border Infrastructure Fund (BIF) and investments and improvements to border infrastructure and policies in respect of promoting concrete highways.
  • Advocate for the government of Canada to negotiate a Sub-national procurement agreement to open markets between Canada and the United States and exempt cement and concrete from Buy America policies.
  • Advocate for the design of potential future carbon border adjustment mechanism in Canada.

Registration 952965-13913-48. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Adam Auer (238), Michael B. McSweeney (19).

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Shawn Grover · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Chery Cardinal · Director of Strategic Initiatives and Indigenous Equity, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Remi Gagnon · Senior Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Kendal Hembroff · Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Denis Martel · Director General, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Maximilian Baylor · Director General, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Simran Arulraj · Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Matthew O'Connell · Deputy Director Financial Sector Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Matthew Paisley · Director of Policy, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and related Output-Based Pricing System regulations in respect of GHG and air emissions and carbon pricing. Read more

    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Bayan Kadri · Policy Advisor, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Sanjana Shah · Policy Advisor, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Cordell Johnson · Atlantic Desk, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Ali Ehsassi · Member of Parliament
    • Eduard Blais-Guilbeault · Policy Advisor, Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Wilder Walker-Stewart · Director of Policy, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Nasser Haidar · Senior Policy Advisor, Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
    • Galen Richardson · Senior Advisor, Stakeholder Relations, Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Bayan Kadri · Policy Advisor, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    • Sanjana Shah · Policy Advisor, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry. Read more

    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market

    Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • John Moffet · Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Mark Carney · Prime Minister, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    • Julie Dabrusin · Member of Parliament
    • Dominic LeBlanc · President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs
    • Mélanie Joly · Minister of Industry
    and 3 more
    • François-Philippe Champagne · Minister of Finance and National Revenue, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Tim Hodgson · Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Chrystia Freeland · Minister of Transportation, House of Commons
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Martin Kolacz · Senior Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry.

    Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs.

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Joshua Swift · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    • Matthew Hall · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    Input regarding federal policies that can help enhance the competitiveness of the Canadian cement industry. Read more

    Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs.

    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • James Christie · Director of Policy, Transport Canada (TC)
    Communicating with government officials about international trade, more specifically trade issues related to the cement industry, including potential tariffs. Read more

    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Julie Dabrusin · Minister of Environment and Climate Change
    • Caroline Lee · Chief of Staff to the Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Mélanie Joly · Minister of Industry
    • Paul Moen · Chief of Staff to the Minister, House of Commons
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • François-Philippe Champagne · Minister of Finance and National Revenue, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Ian Foucher · Chief of Staff to the Minister, Finance Canada (FIN)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Dominic LeBlanc · President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs
    • Brandan Rowe · Chief of Staff to the Minister, House of Commons
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Tim Hodgson · Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Eamonn McGuinty · Chief of Staff to the Minister, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Vasken Vosguian · Chief of Staff to the Minister, Transport Canada (TC)
    • Chrystia Freeland · Minister of Transport, House of Commons
    Engaging Parliamentarians on federal government policies impacting Canada’s economic security, supply chain resilience and sustainability and potential impacts on the Cement Industry in Canada and its ability to remain competitive in a global market Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Adam Auer · In-house (organization)

    • Kendal Hembroff · Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act and cement and concrete industry goals to reach 'net zero' emissions reductions from concrete products

    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.