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Lobbying by CANADIAN DENTAL HYGIENISTS 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 DENTAL HYGIENISTS ASSOCIATION

Meetings this Parliament
11
With MPs
10
Since Nov 2021
71
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Jul 27, 2026.

Who they meet

Since the current Parliament opened.

MPs

Institutions

  • House of Commons10
  • Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)3
  • Health Canada (HC)2
  • Finance Canada (FIN)2
  • Senate of Canada1
  • Prime Minister's Office (PMO)1

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Feb 25, 2026

Filed by Ondina Love, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Lobbyists

  • Donna Wells · Manager of Professional Practice
  • Juliana Jackson · Manager Policy, Research & Government Relations
  • Ondina Love · CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
  • Sylvie Martel · Director of Dental Hygiene Practice

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 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), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Senate of Canada, Shared Services Canada (SSC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

What they're lobbying on (16)
  • Support for community water fluoridation.
  • SMALL BUSINESSES: Supports and opportunities to help small businesses including dental hygiene practice owners.
  • SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity.
  • RADIATION PROTECTION: Radiation protection practices to support the safe use of radiation emitting devices in Canada, including dental x-ray equipment (radiation safety procedures, equipment performance, and radiation protection)
  • Promote maintenance of existing tax exemption status for health and dental benefit premiums.
  • OROFACIAL INJURIES IN SPORTS: Prevention of orofacial injury in sports, including by promoting properly fitted sports mouthguards as an essential piece of protective equipment in both practices and games, at the recreational and competitive level.
  • NATIONAL ORAL HEATH RESEARCH STRATEGY: Addressing essential oral health and oral health care-related research questions, facilitate knowledge translation and further knowledge exchange (Canadian Institutes of Health Research).
  • Financial support during the COVID-19 Pandemic to support dental hygienists. Access to PPE for dental hygienists.
  • Federal government to continue to play a leadership role in working with provinces to implement national long-term care and home care guidelines for daily oral health care and regular professional preventive care.
  • Discussion of items in pre-budget submission.
  • DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).
  • Consultation on potential measures to regulate tobacco and cannibis packages and products.
  • CANADIAN HEALTH MEASURES SURVEY: Ongoing collection of information from Canadians about their general health including oral health. POPULATION-LEVEL DATA: Increased collection, analysis and public reporting on national oral health/dental indicators and outcomes.
  • CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.
  • CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need.
  • ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

Registration 777404-342-29. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Sukh Dhaliwal · Member of Parliament
    • Gregory Frame · Pollicy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity. Read more

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    Federal government to continue to play a leadership role in working with provinces to implement national long-term care and home care guidelines for daily oral health care and regular professional preventive care.

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Shalene Curtis-Micallef · Deputy Minister orf Health, Health Canada (HC)
    • Lynne Rene de Cotret · Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Canada (HC)
    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need. Read more

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households). Read more

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada). Read more

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    and 23 more
    • Brendan Hanley · Member of Parliament
    • Fares Al Soud · Member of Parliament
    • Matt Strauss · Member of Parliament
    • Helena Konanz · Member of Parliament
    • Ernie Klassen · Member of Parliament
    • Parm Bains · Member of Parliament
    • Blaine Calkins · Member of Parliament
    • Ted Falk · Member of Parliament
    • Kathy Borrelli · Member of Parliament
    • Harb Gill · Member of Parliament
    • Noah Hollis · Legislative Assistant, Office of Shannon Miedema, House of Commons
    • Tom Obsorne · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Dawn Arnold · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Percy E. Downe · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Mary Jane McCallum · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Emily Vibien · Parliamentary Research Assistant of Senator Mohamed Iqbal-Ravalia, Senate of Canada
    • Fahim Khan · Senior Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Yash Nanda · Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
    • Claudia Gallant · Stakeholder Relations Advisor, House of Commons
    • Ellen Galupo · Senior Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Tenzin Chogkyi · Senior Special Assistant, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Martine Hubert · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Jibril Hussein · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need. Read more

    Discussion of items in pre-budget submission.

    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity.

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Wade Grant · Member of Parliament
    • Brianne La Pierre · Chief of Staff, House of Commons
    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need. Read more

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity. Read more

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    NATIONAL ORAL HEATH RESEARCH STRATEGY: Addressing essential oral health and oral health care-related research questions, facilitate knowledge translation and further knowledge exchange (Canadian Institutes of Health Research).

    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need.

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need. Read more

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Braedon Clark · Member of Parliament
    • Reem Al-Ameri · Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Fahim Khan · Senior Policy Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need. Read more

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity. Read more

    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need.

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    and 1 more
    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada). Read more

    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity.

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Stephen Ellis · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Federal government to continue to play a leadership role in working with provinces to implement national long-term care and home care guidelines for daily oral health care and regular professional preventive care. Read more

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Yvan Baker · Member of Parliament
    • Peter Julian · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Kevin Murphy · Director of Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Bayan Kadri · Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    and 3 more
    • Crystina Dundas · Senior Policy Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Caroline Beblin · Policy advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
    • Greg Orencsak · Deputy Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)
    CANADIAN HEALTH MEASURES SURVEY: Ongoing collection of information from Canadians about their general health including oral health. POPULATION-LEVEL DATA: Increased collection, analysis and public reporting on national oral health/dental indicators and outcomes. Read more

    Federal government to continue to play a leadership role in working with provinces to implement national long-term care and home care guidelines for daily oral health care and regular professional preventive care.

    SENIORS: Ensuring that all vulnerable seniors (including those living independently in their communities and those living in long-term care homes) have access to necessary and appropriate oral health care to age in wellness and with dignity.

    CANADA STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Expansion of the current list of eligible professionals for student loan forgiveness to help bring more dental hygienists to work in under-served rural and remote communities that lack the primary health care they need.

    ACCES TO ORAL HEALTH CARE: Improved access to preventive oral health care services for millions of vulnerable people across Canada (emphasis on children, seniors aging in communities and in long-term care, people with disabilities, rural and remote communities, Indigenous communities, low-income households).

    DENTAL CARE FOR CANADIANS: Recommendations to support the delivery of the Canada Dental Benefit, Canada Dental Care Plan (Budget 2023), Oral Health Access Fund (Budget 2023), and Investments in Better Dental Care Data (Statistics Canada).

    CANADA’S HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: Addressing Canada’s health workforce crisis, including but not limited to incentives and supports to increase recruitment and retention within the health workforce generally, and to address the rural and remote health workforce specifically.

    NATIONAL ORAL HEATH RESEARCH STRATEGY: Addressing essential oral health and oral health care-related research questions, facilitate knowledge translation and further knowledge exchange (Canadian Institutes of Health Research).

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Mark Holland · Minister of Health, Health Canada (HC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Elizabeth Wong · Policy Lead for Minister of Labour and Seniors, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Peter Julian · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    • Doris Mah · Chief of Staff, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Casey · Member of Parliament
    • Karen Vecchio · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Stephen Ellis · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Seamus O’Regan · Minister of Labour and Seniors, House of Commons
    • Ekateryna Nova · Policy Advisor, House of Commons

    Health

    Official report

  • Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)

    • Yasir Naqvi · Member of Parliament
    • Desiree Sam · Parliamentary Secretary Assistant, 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.