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.
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.
← LobbyingRegistrations 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)Hide details
- 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
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Mark Holland · Minister of Health, House of Commons
- Stephanie Claxton · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Terry Beech · Member of Parliament
- Ellen Galupo · Senior Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Mark Holland · Minister of Health, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Karen Vecchio · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Ellen Galupo · Senior Policy Advisor, Shared Services Canada (SSC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Christa Bishop · Senior Special Advisor, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Don Davies · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Stephanie Claxton · Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Majid Jowhari · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Adam van Koeverden · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Todd Doherty · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Kamal Khera · Minister of Seniors, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
- Jasmeen Shirgill · Director of operations, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Jagmeet Singh · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Francesco Sorbara · Member of Parliment, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Tony Loffreda · Senator, Senate of Canada
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Vance Badawey · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Leah Gazan · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Carol Hughes · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Eric Gustavson · Director, Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Tony Van Bynen · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Bryan May · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Ya'ara Saks · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Francis Scarpaleggia · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Jaime Battiste · Member of Parliament
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Reported by Ondina Love · In-house (organization)
- Michael V. McLeod · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
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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.