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.
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.
← LobbyingRegistrations 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
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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)Hide details
- 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
SpreadsheetFiled by Krissy Murphy (46), Elisa Beselt (20), John-Paul Cody-Cox (3).
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Bonita Zarrillo · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Health
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Reported by Krissy Murphy · In-house (organization)
- Heath MacDonald · Member of Parliament, Health Canada (HC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Philip Lawrence · Member of Parliament
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Yvan Baker · Member of Parliament
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Nathanielle Morin · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
BudgetEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Jill Pilgrim · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Patrick Vaughan · Special Assistant and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Employment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Jed Graham · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
BudgetEducationEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Patrick Vaughan · Special Assistant Communications and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Stephanie Muccilli · Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Paul Hershaw · Director of Operations, Health Canada (HC)
- Jed Graham · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Paul Hershaw · Director of Operations, Health Canada (HC)
- Jed Graham · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Patrick Vaughan · Special Assistant Communications and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Stephanie Muccilli · Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Patrick Vaughan · Special Assistant Communications and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Stephanie Muccilli · Director of Policy, Minister's Office, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Maria Campbell · Acting Policy Director, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Paul Hershaw · Director of Operations, Health Canada (HC)
- Jed Graham · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
Health
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Bud Sambasivam · Deputy Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
- Daniel Saad · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
- Lhori Webster · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
BudgetEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by Elisa Beselt · In-house (organization)
- Justin Trudeau · Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
- Chrystia Freeland · Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Finance Canada (FIN)
BudgetEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by John-Paul Cody-Cox · In-house (organization)
- Erin Hetherington · Director, Program Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Alexandre-Etienne Michon · Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Genevieve Kroes · Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Naoko Hawkins · Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
and 1 moreShow fewer
- Justin Nevills · Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
EducationEmployment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by John-Paul Cody-Cox · In-house (organization)
- Rosanne Waters · Senior Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Employment and TrainingHealth
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Reported by John-Paul Cody-Cox · In-house (organization)
- Farangies Shah · Senior Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Employment and TrainingHealth
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.