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Lobbying by Grain Growers 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

Grain Growers of Canada

Meetings this Parliament
64
With MPs
35
Since Nov 2021
259
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 22, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 1, 2026

Filed by Bruce Burrows, Executive Director

Lobbyists

  • Bruce Burrows · Executive Director
  • Hana Sabah · Senior Manager, Communications
  • Kate Sauser · Manager, Policy

Institutions they may lobby: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Competition Tribunal (CT), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), Justice Canada (JC), National Defence (DND), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Safety Canada (PS), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

What they're lobbying on (16)
  • Health Canada pesticide and food inspections and related procedures as part of new risk assessment approach in context of Bill C-30
  • International trade benefitting grain farmers, ensuring that exports of grain and grain products and imports of essential equipment and inputs remain tariff-free.
  • Grain research and development, particularly ensuring that AAFC is properly staffed and resourced, continues downstream research, return to former levels of research funding, and modernize their R&D infrastructure and technology.
  • Business Risk Management (BRM) programs, particularly AgriStability, AgriInvest and AgriRecovery, ensuring these programs provide farmers with a sufficient safety net and tools to mitigate financial losses and protect farm viability.
  • Trade-enabling infrastructure, advocating for investments in infrastructure essential to the export of Canadian grain and grain products.
  • Health Canada Food and Drug Regulations as they relate to mandatory nutrition labeling, health claims involving cereal grains, oilseeds and pulse crops, Genetically Modified food labeling.
  • Canada Grain Act, seeking to enhance producer protections, bolster the producer payment security program, and increase data requirement functions.
  • Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, with respect to trade distorting impacts.
  • Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, with respect to supporting farmer competitiveness and further enabling farmers' role as climate solution providers.
  • Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS), ensuring that the strategy is fully funded, does not include any targets without data and helps to grow food production to meet increasing domestic and global demand.
  • Right to repair to ensure that grain farmers can access diagnostics software to repair their equipment.
  • Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to the Own Use Import and the Grower Requested Own Use programs.
  • Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to Minor Use Pesticide Program including new pesticides, minor uses and amended labelling for usage.
  • Canada Labour Code, and regulations specifically related to grain handling and transportation.
  • Agricultural trade negotiations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Canada-India, Canada-China, with respect to more export market opportunities for grain farmers.
  • Advocating for a fair and efficient railway transportation system that serves the needs of grain producers.

Registration 776498-14239-53. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Kyle Larkin (158), Erin Gowriluk (82), Kate Sauser (11), Bruce Burrows (8).

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Mary Ng · Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    • Nadia Theodore · Ambassador of Canada to the World Trade Organization, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    • Elise Wagner · Director Of Policy, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
    • Kevin Coon · Chief of Staff, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Mary Ng · Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Donald Neil Plett · Senator, Senate of Canada

    IndustryInternational Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Peter Harder · Senator, Senate of Canada

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Colin Deacon · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Industry

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Emerson Vandenberg · Director of Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Jeremy Keats · Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Paul MacKinnon · President, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
    • Lawrence MacAulay · Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Jeremy Keats · Policy Advisor, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Kathleen Donohue · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    and 4 more
    • Stefanie Beck · Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Emerson Vandenberg · Director of Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Maria Morley · Deputy Chief of Staff, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
    • Tom Rosser · Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Shristi Radhakrishnan · Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    Industry

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Taxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Taxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Taxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Kevin Coon · Chief of Staff, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Robert Black · Senator, Senate of Canada

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Éric Forest · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    Agriculture

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Wilson Miao · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Industry

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Peter Harder · Senator, Senate of Canada

    International Trade

    Official report

  • Reported by Kyle Larkin · In-house (organization)

    • Blake Oliver · Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    AgricultureTransportation

    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.