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Lobbying by FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES: 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

FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES

Meetings this Parliament
253
With MPs
112
Since Nov 2021
795
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 28, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 28, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Carole Saab, Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Michael Aubie · Manager, Advocacy Former designated public office holder

    Formerly Special Assistant – Strategic Communications, Justice Canada, Office of the Minister of Justice (2010–2011)

    Formerly Special Assistant – Issues Management, Health Canada, Office of the Minister of Health (2008–2010)

    Formerly Special Assistant – Issues Management, Transport Canada, Office of the Minister of Transport (2008–2008)

    Formerly Senior Communications Officer, Office of the Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister (2006–2008)

  • Anders Rasmusson · Manager, Policy and Research Former public office holder

    Formerly Policy and Stakeholder Relations Officers, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons (2013–2015)

  • Brandon Vieira · Government Relations Advisor
  • Carole Saab · CEO
  • Gaby Senay · Director, International Programs
  • Iman Mohamed · Director of Policy
  • Jennifer Arntfield · Senior Manager, Policy and Research
  • Justin Farrell · Manager, Policy and Research
  • Lauri Lidstone · Manager, Policy & Research
  • Leslie Muñoz · Director Advocacy
  • Matt Gemmel · Executive Director, Policy and Public Affairs
  • Megan Stanley · Senior Director, Government Relations and Member Engagement
  • Yi Liu · Director, Community Efficiency and Green Municipal Fund

Institutions they may lobby: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), CUSMA Secretariat, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Canada Infrastructure Bank, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Export Development Canada (EDC), Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC), Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), 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), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Safety Canada (PS), Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada, Service Canada (ServCan), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

What they're lobbying on (15)
  • Discussions with government officials concerning carbon emissions from fertilizer as it relates to municipalities and efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
  • Rail, Airports and Ports: Federal policies and programs with regard to access to national and international markets for trade, intra-city movement of people and goods and sustainability of small and rural communities. Municipal role in the G-7 &G-20 and trade negotiations with foreign countries surrounding tarrifs.
  • Support for farmer-centric policies and strategies that improve resiliency in the face of extreme weather, mitigate against rising costs and inflation, support food security, improve access to new markets while partnering to share the costs of reaching Canada's climate targets; Carbon emission-reduction targets related to fertilizer
  • Federal policies and programs with regard to improving accesses to affordable housing, reducing homelessness, increasing social infrastructure required for immigration and refugee settlement and integration support. Homelessness; Encampments; redevelopment of public lands required to support communities that support the Canadian Armed Forces and its members. Affordable housing; Housing supply; Refugee and asylum seeker settlement; Housing Accelerator Fund; Rapid Housing Initiative; Housing-enabling infrastructure; Redevelopment of public lands;
  • Environmental and sustainable development policies and programs with regard to local climate change mitigation and adaptation; Disaster mitigation and adaptation; Capacity building for sustainable community planning; Greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions; Water management, watershed planning, wastewater, and stormwater policy; Urban forest management and stewardship; Brownfield redevelopment; National Adaptation Strategy; Greener Homes Grant; Green Building Strategy; Green Municipal Fund.
  • Community safety and crime prevention. National/contract policing; Community-based mental health and substance use care; Opioids and harm reduction; Auto thefts; Crime prevention through social development; Community corrections; Federal and municipal roles and responsibilities regarding policing duties and funding
  • Telecommunications and Technology: Telecommunications policies with regard to universal broadband access throughout Canadian communities, antenna tower and municipal rights-of-ways.
  • Rural, remote and northern municipal issues: Federal policies and programs with regard to delivering infrastructure funding in rural, remote and northern communities, trade irritants effecting rural, remote and northern communities, the development and implementation of the northern strategy in the three territories and the development of a rural champion at the federal cabinet level.
  • Municipal Finance and Intergovernmental Arrangements Revenue sharing with the federal and provincial governments: Federal policies and programs with regard to the payments in lieu of taxes (PILTs) system, intergovernmental partnerships, recognition of municipal governments contributions to economic growth, the fiscal imbalance between each order of governments revenues options and their responsibilities to provide services and programs to Canadians. Municipal Growth Framework.
  • Municipal-aboriginal relations issues: Federal policies and programs with regard to municipal-aboriginal relations, resources to meet the needs of the aboriginal population living in municipalities, municipal consultation and communication regarding land management and additions to reserve. Urban and Rural Indigenous Housing; Municipal-aboriginal relations
  • International municipal development; Canadian foreign policy with regard to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funded programs overseas in various countries
  • Guidelines for urban transit, intra and extra urban transit systems: Infrastructure and Transportation policy with regard to the development of guidelines, policy and dedicated funding for urban, intra and extra urban transit systems; Intercommunity bus; Aerodromes and airports; Intra and extra urban transit systems; Municipal/railway proximity issues; Trade corridors; Shipping routes and sea ports;
  • Federal policies and programs with regard to improving accesses to affordable housing, reducing homelessness, increasing social infrastructure required for immigration and refugee settlement and integration support. Homelessness; Encampments; Affordable housing; Housing supply; Refugee and asylum seeker settlement; Housing Accelerator Fund; Reaching Home; Rapid Housing Initiative; Housing-enabling infrastructure;
  • Federal infrastructure program funding, including (but not limited to) Infrastructure Canada Canada Community Building Fund; Infrastructure programs and funding; Permanent Public Transit Fund; Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) financing; Investing in Canada infrastructure Plan; Universal Broadband; Rural, remote and northern infrastructure;
  • Emergency preparedness and security measures: Emergency preparedness policies and programs with regard to the cost and implementation of emergency equipment and first responder support; Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund; Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA); Wildfire response; Flood mapping;

Registration 946339-15901-101. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet
  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    ClimateInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Alice Zheng · Policy Advisor, Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

    Municipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Gudie Hutchings · Minister of Rural Economic Development, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    ClimateInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    and 25 more
    • Andréanne Larouche · Member of Parliament
    • Gérard Deltell · Member of Parliament
    • Ryan Turnbull · Member of Parliament
    • Adam van Koeverden · Member of Parliament
    • Marie-France Lalonde · Member of Parliament
    • Leslyn Lewis · Member of Parliament
    • Chris Lewis · Member of Parliament
    • Scott Aitchison · Member of Parliament
    • Dan Mazier · Member of Parliament
    • Terry Duguid · Member of Parliament
    • Blaine Calkins · Member of Parliament
    • Gord Johns · Member of Parliament
    • Tako Van Popta · Member of Parliament
    • Mel Arnold · Member of Parliament
    • Elizabeth May · Member of Parliament
    • Gudie Hutchings · Minister of Rural Economic Development, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
    • Churence Rogers · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Rick Perkins · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Valerie Bradford · Member of Parliment, House of Commons
    • Paul Chiang · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Majid Jowhari · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Earl Dreeshen · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • George Chahal · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Richard Cannings · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Mike Morrice · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    ClimateInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Douglas Wong · Senior Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    HousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Yash Nanda · Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    InfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Damien Kurek · MP, House of Commons

    ClimateHousingInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Brandan Rowe · Director of Policy, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    • Josh Lindner · Policy Advisor, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    • Jessica Fullterton · Policy Advisor, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    InfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Harry Orbach-Miller · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    ClimateHousingInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Marco Mendicino · Minister of Public Safety, Public Safety Canada (PS)

    MunicipalitiesNational Security/Security

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Daniel Saad · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    HousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    HousingInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    HousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    MunicipalitiesNational Security/Security

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Gérard Deltell · MP and Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change

    ClimateMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Scott Aitchison · MP and Shadow Minister for Housing and Diversity and Inclusion
    • Gérard Deltell · MP and Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change

    ClimateHousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Mona Fortier · President of the Treasury Board, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

    ClimateMunicipalitiesNational Security/Security

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Jagmeet Singh · MP and Leader of Canada's NDP, House of Commons

    ClimateHousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Dominic LeBlanc · Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    InfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Gudie Hutchings · Minister of Rural Economic Development, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    Economic DevelopmentMunicipalitiesNational Security/Security

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Anita Vandenbeld · Minister of International Development, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

    International DevelopmentMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Rachel Blaney · MP, House of Commons

    MunicipalitiesNational Security/Security

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Randall Garrison · MP, House of Commons

    HousingMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    • Matthew Green · MP, House of Commons
    • Richard Cannings · MP, House of Commons
    • Taylor Bachrach · MP, House of Commons
    • Bonita Zarrillo · MP, House of Commons

    ClimateInfrastructureMunicipalities

    Official report

  • Reported by Carole Saab · In-house (organization)

    HousingMunicipalities

    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.