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Lobbying by Canadian Medical 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 Medical Association

Meetings this Parliament
214
With MPs
109
Since Nov 2021
463
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 28, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since May 8, 2026

Filed by Alex Munter, Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Alana Baker · Vice-President, Advocacy and Government Relations
  • Alex Dearham · Senior Advisor, Ethics & Professional Affairs Former public office holder

    Formerly Constituency Assistance, Office of Paul Dewar, Member of Parliament, House of Commons (2012–2014)

    Formerly Parliamentary Assistant, Office of Denise Savoie, Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker, House of Commons (2011–2012)

  • Alex Munter · Chief Executive Officer
  • Aline Gagnon · Director, Stakeholder Partnerships Former public office holder

    Formerly Writer and Special Advisor, Speaker of the House of Commons, Prime Minster's Office, House of Commons (1986–1993)

  • Andrew Yates · Interim VP, Communications
  • Ann Vachon · Director, Access to Care Former public office holder

    Formerly Senior Marketing Officer, Marketing Department, National Arts Centre (2008–2010)

    Formerly Marketing Officer, N/A, Canadian Tourism Commission (2003–2007)

  • Ashley Chisholm · Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Strategy & Innovation
  • Audrey Grandmaison · Senior Advisor, Public and Patient Engagement Former public office holder

    Formerly Clerk, Term Contract Employee, Registry of the Tax Court of Canada, Courts Administration Services (2014–2014)

    Formerly Student Employee, Registry of the Tax Court of Canada, Courts Administration Services (2011–2014)

    Formerly Intern, Communications, Courts Administration Services (2012–2012)

  • Ayo Olatunji · Director, Responsible Investing, Investment Management
  • Beth Hickey · Consultant
  • Caroline Gerin-Lajoie · Executive Vice-President, Physician Wellness and Medical Culture
  • Catherine Penney · Senior Advisor, Policy Former public office holder

    Formerly Policy Advisor, Strategic Policy and Accessibility Unit, Transport Canada (2021–2022)

    Formerly Junior Policy Analyst, Accessible Canada Directorate, Employment and Social Development Canada (2019–2021)

  • Chloe Rivest · Summer Student
  • Christopher Simon · Director, Physician Wellness and Medical Culture
  • Cortney Clark · Lead, Indigenous Health Policy
  • Emma Blachar · Coordinator, Advocacy and Government Relations
  • Eric Lewis · Senior Advisor, Media Relations
  • Erin Waldegger · Business Support Specialist, Physician Wellness and Medical Culture
  • Estelle Ah-Kiow · Strategic Advisor, Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Former public office holder

    Formerly Senior Program Advisor, Policy, Program and Protocol Branch, Office of the Secretary to the Governor General of Canada (2023–2025)

    Formerly Government Relations Advisor, Public Affairs and International Relations, Export Development Canada (2022–2023)

    Formerly Policy Advisor, Employment Equity Act Review Secretariat, Employment and Social Development Canada (2021–2022)

    Formerly Analyst, Digital Change Sector, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (2020–2021)

  • Francois Lessard · Senior Director, Francophonie and Communications
  • Ivy Thompson · Executive Assistant to the CEO
  • Jasmine Neeson · Strategic Advisor, Government Relations and Intergovernmental Affairs Former public office holder

    Formerly Service desk coordinator, N/A, Canadian Science and Technology Museum Corporation (1999–2001)

  • Jeff Blackmer · EVP, Global Health and Chief Medical Officer Former public office holder

    Formerly Consultant, Medical Ethics, Not applicable, Canadian Armed Forces (2003–2003)

  • Jennifer Arnold · Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy and Innovation Former public office holder

    Formerly Science Outreach Marketing /Internal Communications Summer Student, Communications and Corporate Relations Division, National Research Council of Canada (2007–2007)

    Formerly Marketing/Sales Summer Student, Global Nuclear Products Division, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (2006–2006)

    Formerly Marketing/Sales Summer Student, Global Nuclear Products Division, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (2005–2005)

  • Jennifer Kitts · Vice President, Advocacy and Policy Former public office holder

    Formerly Legal and Policy Researcher and Program Manager, N/A, Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (1990–1994)

  • Jimmy Mui · Executive Vice-President, Corporate Services, CFO and COO
  • Josée Larivière · Business Support Specialist
  • Kafia Yusuf · Senior Advisor, Government Relations & Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Karen Clark · Business Support Specialist
  • Karey J Shuhendler · Strategic Advisor, Policy
  • Krishnu Singh · Student
  • Krista Halliday · Strategic Advisor, Global Health
  • Kristin Smith · Senior Director, Physician Wellness and Medical Culture
  • Kyle Brown · Director, Physician Wellness and Medical Culture
  • Laura Myers · Strategic Advisor Former public office holder

    Formerly Social Policy Researcher, Policy and Strategic Direction, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (2021–2021)

    Formerly Policy Analyst, Global Issues and Development, Global Affairs (2018–2018)

    Formerly Policy Analyst, Global Issues and Development, Global Affairs (2017–2017)

    Formerly Policy Analyst, Global Issues and Development, Global Affairs (2015–2015)

  • Luce Lavoie · EVP, Communications
  • Margarita Chamorro Camara · Associate, Responsible Investing
  • Mark Woods · Director, Strategic Foresight and Innovation Former public office holder

    Formerly Summer student, Recruitment, education and training, Department of National Defence (1999–1999)

    Formerly Summer student, Library services, Solicitor General of Canada (1998–1998)

    Formerly Summer student, Library services, Solicitor General of Canada (1997–1997)

  • Moira Teed · Strategic Advisor
  • Olivier Saintonge · Director, Strategic Relationships & Alliances
  • Owen Adams · Senior Advisor to the CEO Former public office holder

    Formerly Research Analyst, Senior Research Analyst, Health Division, Statistics Canada (1978–1990)

  • Rachelle Patry · Senior Director, Taxation
  • Renée Belanger · Strategic Advisor, Provincial/Territorial Medical Associations
  • Sarah Lowden · Strategic Advisor, Stakeholder Relations and Partnership Management
  • Sarah Williams · Strategic Advisor, Indigenous Health
  • Sheila Beehler-Walsh · Director, Strategic Partnerships
  • Sivani Srikanthan · Advisor, Community Engagement
  • Sophia Briard · Advisor, Engagement Programs
  • Stephen Vail · Director, Policy
  • Taylor Hodgins Musgrave · Advisor, Parliamentary Affairs Former public office holder

    Formerly Legislative Assistant, Office of Shannon Stubbs, Member of Parliament, House of Commons (2018–2018)

    Formerly Constituency Assistant, Office of Peter Braid, Member of Parliament, House of Commons (2013–2013)

  • Vijay Chauhan · Interim Executive Vice-President, Public Affairs
  • Ziad Saab · Strategic Advisor, Strategy & Operations

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, 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), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG), Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), Office of the Secretary to the Governor General (OSGG), Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Public Safety Canada (PS), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada, Service Canada (ServCan), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

What they're lobbying on (27)
  • HEALTH DATA INTEROPERBILITY: Provide CMA’s perspective as it relates to health data interoperability that would ensure providers have access to the right information at the right time when providing care, and improve patient outcomes and their health care experience.
  • BUDGET: Provide CMA’s perspective on the Government of Canada’s budget, particularly as it relates to modernizing Canada’s health care system by enhancing efficiency, driving innovation, and promoting equitable access to care.
  • HARMFUL ONLINE CONTENT: Advocate to address the escalation of online harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence targeting physicians, other health workers, and anyone seeking health care treatment, including measures to strengthen the Criminal Code of Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Act.
  • TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: provide CMA’s perspective on the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the health care sector and the means through which advancements can be foreseen and managed.
  • HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: Increased investments in health and social-determinants-of-health related programs, including measures to address the opioid crisis, mental health and addictions, and the regulation of natural health products.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN: Advocate for measures to alleviate the administrative burden on physicians and support their professional wellbeing, including investment to facilitate the development of EHRs and EMRs in Canada, improved remuneration for the completion of federal health forms, the development of a Federal Disability Benefit, ensuring that physicians are not captured in the definition of "promoters" in the Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Regulations, providing clarity and guidance on federal forms, and advocacy on discontinuing the requirement that employees present sick notes to their employers.
  • The CMA is advocating that the trade of medical goods and medications be protected to avoid disruptions to patient care. Specifically, that the government: Continue to ensure pharmaceutical products and medical devices are not included in any countermeasures on tariffs. Improve safeguards for Canadian health data. Improve labour mobility so physicians can work across the country. Make it easier for qualified physicians to immigrate and work in Canada, including by fast-tracking immigration steps for US physicians.
  • PAN CANADIAN LICENSURE: Advocate for the ability for physicians with full licences to practise independently without restrictions or for medical resident trainees registered in any Canadian jurisdiction to practise or train in any other Canadian jurisdiction without having to acquire more than one licence or pay additional licensing fees. This includes exploring enabling legislation in the provinces and territories.
  • INTEGRATED HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES Advocate for an Integrated Health Human Resources Strategy, including creating retention incentives and addressing administrative burden for health care professionals, increasing the number of doctors and nurses and ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary health team, increasing access to virtual care, creating an action plan to get internationally trained health care professionals to work, improving workforce data collection across health systems and investing in a supply needs-based planning tool, and facilitating team-based health care.
  • MEDICAL MIS/DISINFORMATION: Provide CMA’s perspective on the impacts of medical misinformation and disinformation, including on public trust in science, medicine, and public health experts.
  • INDIGENOUS HEALTH: Improvement to the health and health care services provided to Indigenous peoples in Canada including adding inclusive lettering on health cards across Canada.
  • Advocating for the creation of a national Chief Health Accountability Officer.
  • PUBLIC-PRIVATE HEALTHCARE: The CMA is conducting a series of in-person sessions across the country to engage key stakeholders, including the public, physicians, patients/PWLE, policymakers, system leaders and others, in a dialogue on public-private healthcare. What we hear will inform CMA policy moving forward, and our recommendations for action at a national level.
  • PHYSICIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN CAUCUS: advocate for the formation of a Physician Parliamentarian Caucus as a means of examining deficiencies in the health care system and proposing solutions.
  • PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL SAFETY: Advocate to address the challenges and opportunities for physical, psychological and cultural safety within Canada’s health system, including the implementation of a nation-wide anti-racism plan, the creation of a Canada Mental Health transfer, improving access to mental health services to physicians and their families, gender-affirming care, creating an emergency National Mental Health Support Services hotline for all health care providers, the creation of a National Physicians Day in Canada, ensuring safe and unimpeded access to health care facilities for health care workers and patients.
  • PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ACT (PIPEDA) PRIVACY PROTECTION OF HEALTH INFORMATION AND THE REGULATORY REVIEW: Improvement to privacy legislation to protect the privacy of health information.
  • NET ZERO: Advocate for sustainable health systems in Canada, including reaching net-zero emissions by 2050; advocate for the establishment of a national climate and health secretariat within the federal government to develop a pan-Canadian approach to addressing the impacts of climate change and health; and advocate for a targeted health infrastructure fund as part of the federal government’s long-term plan for public infrastructure.
  • MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING: Advancing the medical profession’s perspectives on medical assistance in dying.
  • INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND RECONCILIATION WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Implementation of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including addressing the ongoing structural inequities that marginalize Indigenous Peoples, advancing the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in societal systems and sectors, including health systems, and committing to collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities. The CMA is also advocating to increase trust between Indigenous patients and health care providers, and to eliminate racism, inequitable access to care, and the ongoing harm caused to those within Canada’s health care system.
  • INCOME TAX ACT: provide insight into the federal government’s proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act, particularly with regards to the charitable status of organizations that provide pregnancy counselling services.
  • FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING TO EXPAND PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY: Recommendation for a $1 billion investment to expand Canada’s public health capacity.
  • FEDERAL HEALTH FUNDING FOR A NEW PRIMARY CARE ACCESS FUND: Recommendation for a funding commitment to ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor or primary care team.
  • DIGITAL HEALTH: Increased investment in providing digital, virtual and telehealth services.
  • COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Ensuring a coordinated and consistent national response by the federal government across all jurisdictions, including targeted resources to ensure health systems have the capacity to respond, advocating on equitable vaccine supply and distribution, applying restrictive public health measures when needed, prioritizing national collaboration to save the most lives, and ensure adequate supply, proper distribution, and appropriate usage of personal protective equipment throughout health systems.
  • CANADIAN PHARMACEUTICAL STRATEGY: A national strategy to ensure all Canadian have access to safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs regardless of employment status or geography.
  • CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER: Increased federal funding for health care to the provinces and territories to ensure the sustainability of the health care system.
  • AGEING WITH DIGNITY: Advocate for a pan-Canadian plan to improve elder care, including investments in long-term care standards, enhanced home and community-based care, and supports for older persons, an older adults care benefit program to deliver funding to older adults and caregivers to cover out of pocket health care costs, improved national standards and investment in the area of palliative and end of life care, and the development of a United Nations document supporting the rights of older persons.

Registration 775701-227341-199. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Alex Munter (244), Timothy Smith (219).

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Larry Maguire · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Jagmeet Singh · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Employment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Dahlia James · Senior policy advisor, Justice Canada (JC)
    • Isabelle Laliberte · Policy Advisor, Justice Canada (JC)
    • Jessica Spindler · Director of Policy, Justice Canada (JC)

    Aboriginal AffairsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    Employment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Andrew Cardozo · Senator, Senate of Canada

    ClimateEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Donna Dasko · Senator, Senate of Canada

    ClimateEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Marie-Françoise Mégie · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Employment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Mike Morrice · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    Aboriginal AffairsEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Marci Ien · Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, House of Commons

    Aboriginal AffairsEmployment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Karen Vecchio · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Employment and TrainingHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Stephen Ellis · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Employment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Patty Hajdu · Minister of Indigenous Services, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Jagmeet Singh · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateEmployment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Jaxson Khan · Senior Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    HealthScience and Technology

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Arif Virani · Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Justice Canada (JC)
    • Dahlia James · Senior policy advisor, Justice Canada (JC)
    • Isabelle Laliberte · Policy Advisor, Justice Canada (JC)

    Employment and TrainingHealthJustice and Law EnforcementScience and Technology

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Elizabeth Wong · Policy and Operations Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Jill Pilgrim · Deputy Director of Policy & Legal Affairs, Health Canada (HC)

    Employment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealthScience and Technology

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Rosa Galvez · Senator, Senate of Canada

    ClimateHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Yasir Naqvi · Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Jill Pilgrim · Deputy Director of Policy & Legal Affairs, Health Canada (HC)

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateEmployment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Karen Vecchio · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Employment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateEmployment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    • Stephen Lucas · Deputy Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Jocelyne Voisin · Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Canada (HC)

    Federal-Provincial RelationsHealthScience and Technology

    Official report

  • Reported by Timothy Smith · In-house (organization)

    Aboriginal AffairsClimateEmployment and TrainingFederal-Provincial RelationsHealth

    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.