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Lobbying by Canadian Psychological 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 Psychological Association

Meetings this Parliament
4
With MPs
4
Since Nov 2021
23
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Oct 20, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Oct 6, 2025

Filed by Lisa Votta-Bleeker, CEO

Lobbyists

  • Devin Fowlie · Education Leader
  • Glenn Brimacombe · Director, Policy and Public Affairs
  • Lauren Thompson · Scientific Affairs Leader
  • Lisa Votta-Bleeker · Chief Executive Officer
  • Stewart Madon · Director, Professional Affairs and Registrar, Accreditation

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Finance Canada (FIN), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Justice Canada (JC), National Defence (DND), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Public Safety Canada (PS), Senate of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

What they're lobbying on (31)
  • Investments in education and training, specifically schools of psychology and PsyD programs, to increase the number of doctoral prepared psychologists graduated in a given year to provide increased access to psychological diagnoses, assessments, and treatments
  • The role of psychologists in legislated policies and programs related to the Criminal Code of Canada: Medical Assistance in Dying, Assessing Fitness to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility
  • The Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) Program's Mental Health Counselling (MHC) benefit with respect to improving access to psychological services.
  • The formulation of a national dementia strategy and action plan
  • The CPA's previous CEO was asked to co-Chair the Disability Advisory Committee (DAC), reinstated by the Minister of National Revenue. The mandate of the Committee was to advise the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on its interpretation and administration of tax measures for persons with disabilities. Improved interpretation and administration can help to enhance access to tax measures for those living with disability.
  • Taxation - Tax Programs in respect of persons with disability related to mental functions
  • Role of behavioural science in addressing climate change and impact of climate change, and its response, on mental health
  • Revisit the extended health care insurance plans for federal public employees and all other beneficiaries. Make sure that coverage provided for psychological services affords the employee meaningful levels of service. Those Federal government departments that enter into contracts for service from registered psychologists pay at least the recommended rate set by provincial and territorial associations of psychology across Canada.
  • Remove the requirement that employees of the federal public service must get a referral from a medical doctor before qualifying for reimbursement for psychological services
  • Psychological services provided through the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program for First Nations and Inuit persons
  • Proposed changes to the HST/GST attached to reports and services for non-health care purposes. CPA is concerned that this change will lead to unintended consequences for Canadians seeking mental health treatment and that Canadians will now have to pay taxes on some psychological services that were once exempt.
  • Policies and programs to better address the health care needs of seniors - National Dementia Strategy, Canada Health Transfers that include a demographic top up transfer, expand innovative homecare best practices, pan-Canadian caregiver strategy
  • Pharmacare and its impact on other privately insured health services such as psychological services
  • Overall support for Bill C-211: An Act respecting a federal framework on post-traumatic stress disorder. Concerns were expressed about federal guidelines with respect to diagnosis, treatment and management of post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Obtain Federal support of the infrastructures and mechanisms necessary to collecting information on Canada's Health Human Resource (HHR) upon which HHR planning can rely
  • Obtain contributions for the training of Canada's mental health human resources.
  • Leadership in the development, innovation and delivery of evidence-based in respect of needed and accessible mental health and health service
  • Improve access to psychological services with respect to the new mental health funding in the Canada Health transfer
  • Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians
  • Improve access to mental health and psychological services through private and public health insurance plans in Canada.
  • Improve access to mental health and psychological services for veterans
  • Help to address mental health needs within the military through mechanisms which could enhance recruitment and retention of psychologists in the military such as the development of federal residency training programs for psychologists and putting psychologists in uniform.
  • Expand the CanLearn program to include psychologists
  • Establish a chief clinical psychologist position at the Department of National Defence within the Mental Health Directorate.
  • Ensure core research funding for granting councils and funding for students that recognizes the role of psychological factors in research, particularly in health and the neurosciences
  • Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions
  • Disability Management Initiative in the Public Service with respect to mental health conditions to identify prevention programs and longer term needs.
  • Create federal residency placements for psychologists within federal departments
  • Continued investments in students through graduate scholarships, internships, and fellowships.
  • Continued, increased, and balanced funding for psychological research via base funding for the granting councils, as well as stabilized funding for operating and infrastructure support.
  • Chapter 7 of Agreement on Internal Trade and its impact on the regulation and mobility of psychologists

Registration 956457-251422-45. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Karen Cohen (11), Lisa Votta-Bleeker (10), Glenn Brimacombe (2).

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    and 2 more
    • Todd Doherty · Member of Parliament
    • Bryn Savage · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions Read more

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    Continued, increased, and balanced funding for psychological research via base funding for the granting councils, as well as stabilized funding for operating and infrastructure support. Read more

    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    Continued investments in students through graduate scholarships, internships, and fellowships. Read more

    Continued, increased, and balanced funding for psychological research via base funding for the granting councils, as well as stabilized funding for operating and infrastructure support.

    Ensure core research funding for granting councils and funding for students that recognizes the role of psychological factors in research, particularly in health and the neurosciences

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    and 9 more
    • Arielle Kayabaga · Member of Parliament
    • Billy Morin · Member of Parliament
    • Tatiana Auguste · MP
    • Taleeb Noormohamed · Member of Parliament
    • Dawn Arnold · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Jagsharan Singh · MP, House of Commons
    • Paulette Senior · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Emma Meldrum · Parliamentary Advisor to Senator Bernadette Clement, Senate of Canada
    • Bryn Savage · Policy Advisor on Mental Health & Addictions for Minister Marjorie Michel, House of Commons
    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians Read more

    Improve access to psychological services with respect to the new mental health funding in the Canada Health transfer

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services through private and public health insurance plans in Canada.

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    • Stephen Ellis · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions Read more

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services through private and public health insurance plans in Canada.

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    • Michelle Ferreri · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians Read more

    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services through private and public health insurance plans in Canada.

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    • Sharon Burey · Honourable Senator, Senate of Canada
    Improve access to mental health and psychological services for veterans Read more

    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians Read more

    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    and 11 more
    • Matt Jeneroux · Member of Parliament
    • Arpan Khanna · Member of Parliament
    • Heath MacDonald · Member of Parliament
    • Shelby Kramp-Neuman · Member of Parliament
    • Rosemary Moodie · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Patti LaBoucane-Benson · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Elizabeth Marshall · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Dima Kalander · Advisor to Francesco Sorbara, House of Commons
    • Mary Robinson · Senator, House of Commons
    • Joanna Komarnicki · Director of Parliamentary Affairs for Senator Karen Sorenson, Senate of Canada
    • Darrell Samson · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Enhancing access to mental health care through primary care and create parity of funding for mental and physical health services for persons with mental health, substance use and physical health conditions Read more

    Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians

    Continued, increased, and balanced funding for psychological research via base funding for the granting councils, as well as stabilized funding for operating and infrastructure support.

    Official report

  • Reported by Lisa Votta-Bleeker · In-house (organization)

    • Ya'ara Saks · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Glenn Brimacombe · In-house (organization)

    • Stan Kutcher · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Glenn Brimacombe · In-house (organization)

    • Michelle Ferreri · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Scott Doidge · Director General, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

    Aboriginal AffairsHealth

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    and 9 more
    • Dean Allison · Member of Parliament
    • Ruby Sahota · Member of Parliament
    • Rosemarie Falk · Member of Parliament
    • Tako Van Popta · Member of Parliament
    • Carol Hughes · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Tracy Gray · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Vance Badawey · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • John Aldag · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Churence Rogers · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Stan Kutcher · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Michelle Ferreri · MP, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Karen McKinnon · Director General, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
    • Hillary Morgan · Policy Advisor to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Health Canada (HC)
    • Shaili Patel · Director of Policy to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Health Canada (HC)
    • Eric Belair · Associate ADM, Health Canada (HC)
    and 1 more
    • Carolyn Bennett · Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Health Canada (HC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Michelle Ferreri · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Karen Cohen · In-house (organization)

    • Ya'ara Saks · 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.