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Lobbying by Canadian Physiotherapy Association: 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

Canadian Physiotherapy Association

Meetings this Parliament
5
With MPs
3
Since Nov 2021
69
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Mar 27, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 17, 2026

Filed by Krissy Murphy, Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Fiona Livingstone · Chief Corporate Services Officer
  • Gary Stordy · Director of Advocacy Former public office holder

    Formerly Special Assistant/Parliamentary Coordinator, Member of Parliament, House of Commons (2000–2002)

  • Krissy Murphy · Chief Executive Officer
  • Lisa Carroll · Senior Director, Professional Practice

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Finance Canada (FIN), 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), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

What they're lobbying on (9)
  • Value for physiotherapy in diverse sectors such as primary care. Discussion includes physiotherapy access, expansion of services and scope of practice.
  • Scope of Practice: Physiotherapy scope of practice, skill-set optimization, value for physiotherapy, economic impact.
  • Raise awareness about the role of physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare and educate policymakers on how physiotherapy can help reduce healthcare costs, maximize current spending and funding allocation through physiotherapy skill optimization, support preventative care and contribute to a healthier Canadian population at all stages of life.
  • Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population.
  • Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy as a non-pharmacological care, as an upstream and early intervention and prevention response to the opioid crisis
  • Health Human Resource Strategy: Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy. Discussion includes health human resources planning, health human resource crisis, workforce planning, workforce shortages, scope of practice.
  • Enable support and funding for those communities that could potentially benefit most from telerehabilitation and virtual services, including Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis and rural and remote populations, where infrastructure may presently exclude them from access (no cellular or internet service/access). Discussion on equity of access to physiotherapy services.
  • Caseload Guidelines: Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology. Including research regarding physiotherapy specific caseload guidelines.
  • Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program. This includes NHIB, orthotics, medical devices, coverage.

Registration 954941-16979-24. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Krissy Murphy (46), Elisa Beselt (20), John-Paul Cody-Cox (3).

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Tina Warawa · Chief of Staff, House of Commons

    BudgetHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Mark Holland · Minister of Health, House of Commons

    BudgetHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    BudgetEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Rebecca Caldwell · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealthSmall Business

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Alison McDermott · Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Simon Vallieres · Senior Economic Analyst, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Mehreen Khan · Senior Advisor/Economist, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Nicole Michalewicz · Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealthSmall Business

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Riley Schnurr · Deputy Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Wilder Walker-Stewart · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    • Stephanie Claxton · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealthResearch and Development

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Miles Wu · Senior Policy & Regional Advisor, House of Commons

    EducationHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

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

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Elizabeth Wong · Policy & Operations Advisor, House of Commons

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Jill Pilgrim · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    • Wilder Walker-Stewart · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)

    BudgetEducationHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Patrick Wright · Policy Analyst / Analyste de Politiques, Health Canada (HC)
    • Kaireen Patton · Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada (HC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Jean-Yves Duclos · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Jacob Saumure · Intern, Health Canada (HC)

    BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Ashique Biswas · Senior Director, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
    • Mark Dunlop · Analyst, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
    • Victoria Pevkina · Analyst, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Gigi Osler · Senator, Senate of Canada

    EducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Rosemary Moodie · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Josh Dadjo · Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Senate of Canada
    • Brittany Reid · Staffer (Sen. Moodie), Senate of Canada
    • Kiara Nazon · Staffer (Office of Sen. Moodie), Senate of Canada

    EducationEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)

    • Jean-Francois Leroux · Manager, Health Canada (HC)
    • Jennifer Novak · Executive Director, Health Canada (HC)
    • Lisa McKinnon · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)

    HealthResearch and Development

    Official report

  • Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)

    • Patrick Vaughan · Special Assistant and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)

    • Ryan Hurley · Parliamentary Assistant to MP Don Davies, House of Commons

    BudgetHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)

    • Richard Mavin · Parliamentary Assistant to Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)

    • Ken Hardie · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    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.