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Lobbying by Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC): 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 Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)

Meetings this Parliament
42
With MPs
1
Since Nov 2021
84
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 11, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Jun 1, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Josipa Petrunic, President & CEO

Lobbyists

  • Heather Pratt · Fractional Director of Business Innovation
  • Jess Smith · Manager: Commercialization & Operations
  • Jessica Hanson · Project Manager
  • Josipa Petrunic · Executive Director & CEO
  • Majdi El-Sadek · Membership Officer
  • Morgane Kuyl · Strategic Partnerships Lead

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Infrastructure Bank, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), National Defence (DND), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Safety Canada (PS), Transport Canada (TC)

What they're lobbying on (17)
  • Renew CUTRIC's role as the Preferred Non Profit Provider of Planning Services under the Canada Public Transit Fund to provide feasibility studies and empirical analysis for transit agencies across Canada to advance their fleet decarbonizations.
  • Launch Canadian Cybersecurity Innovation Initiative for Rail and Transit (CCIIRT) with funding of $50 million over eight years. The increasing digitalization of our transit systems offers numerous benefits to passengers and freight alike but it also presents growing cybersecurity risks which pose threats to transportation and national security. The CCIIRT addresses gaps in Canada's rail and transit cybersecurity by establishing a federal regulatory framework with mandatory compliance guidelines for transit operators and vendors.
  • Establishing the need for the heavy duty transit manufacturing sector to have a seat at the table in Canada-US trade negotiations so that any renegotiation of CUSMA (Canada-US-Mexico Agreement) recognizes the jobs-at-risk within the Canadian manufacturing landscape.
  • Positioning Canada’s North American-leading transit manufacturing sector (bus, coach, shuttle, rail and public mobility) at the heart of industrial policy mechanisms as part of the Canadian job growth strategy to benefit from support to manufacturing that other sectors and verticals will benefit from.
  • Advocating to maintain and grow the Canada Public Transit Fund (CPTF) to at least $5 billion per year as part of Prime Minister Carney’s initiative to Build a Stronger Canada and based on key performance indicators associated with the Zero Emissions Transit Fund (ZETF).
  • The Government of Canada must launch the development of a robust Canadian Transportation Innovation & Industrial Development Strategy. The Strategy would require a “hub” marriage between Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Innovation, Science and Industry and Environment Canada, and Transport Canada on the transportation innovation file. The Strategy should be launched with a federal Task Force with the support of Members of Parliament, mobility manufacturers, integrators, fleets/transit systems, and alternative fuel providers to generate programming aimed at future low-carbon smart mobility infrastructure integration, innovation and technological advancement in transportation.
  • Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period.
  • To present the Foreign Affairs, Commerce & Trade (FACT) Task Force, a multi-stakeholder working group established by the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). Its purpose is to support Canada's transit manufacturing sector in navigating international trade challenges, particularly in light of recently imposed U.S. tariffs and anticipated Canadian countermeasures. The Task Force serves as a forum for manufacturers, suppliers, transit agencies, labour representatives, and academic experts to share insights, assess risks, and collaboratively develop policy recommendations. Its objective is to mitigate negative impacts on Canadian jobs, production capacity, and public mobility outcomes. The FACT Task Force advocates for tariff exemptions on transit-related goods and services, and for policy supports that protect domestic supply chains and sustain Canada's zero-emission transit goals.
  • Within Canadian Transportation Innovation & Industrial Development Strategy, Canada needs to identify a clear mandate for Alternative Propulsion & Smart Mobility Innovation focusing on mechanisms that create IP and new jobs in the low-carbon transportation innovation industry, building globally relevant large scale integration trials and industry-academic collaborations through innovation consortia for alternative propulsion and smart vehicle technologies in shared mobility systems applications (e.g. public transit and shared private fleets). This Strategy must include battery electric propulsion and charging systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), hydrogen fuel cell electric propulsion systems and fuelling systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), renewable natural gas propulsion and fuelling systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), and automated and connected vehicle systems for public fleet systems applied to heavy- and light-duty vehicles, including bus, coach, and rail.
  • Support CUTRIC’s development of a Joint Procurement Initiative that improves transit by moving people more efficiently across Canada using the most cutting edge zero-emissions technology projects available worldwide. CUTRIC’s Joint Procurement Initiative will support the launch of zero emission buses CUTRIC across Canada, with a focus on the GTHA.
  • Support CUTRIC’s application to ensure the federal government invests $10M in start-up seed financing for the development of a cutting edge (and publicly-controlled) ACES Big Data Trust (“Autonomous, Connected, Electric & Shared” Big Data Trust), which would ensure standardized data collection, aggregation, sharing and use for optimized decision-making for fleet procurements of electric, hydrogen electric, and autonomous, i.e. “smart”, transportation fleets across Canada. The ACES Big Data Trust will help to reduce taxpayer losses due to inefficient and unempirical procurement decision-making across Canada’s public fleets, by ensuring public fleet procurement bodies and agencies have access to the real-time, accurate, precise and immediately accessible performance data they need to hold manufacturers to account and assess performance of vehicles procured once in fleet. The ACES Big Data Trust will optimize the use of tax dollars invested in public fleets across the heavy-duty sector of vehicles, including buses, rail, coaches and municipal heavy-duty service vehicles.
  • Support a Return to Transit project that aims to secure funding for Research & Development into getting transit riders back on transit safely.
  • Secure funding to support a national smart vehicle demonstration and integration trial which supports the long-term deployment of autonomous shuttles in Markham, Ontario.
  • Secure funding for the ACES Big Data Trust and ZEB Simulation Rollout projects through FedDev Ontario, ISED or other relevant ministry respectively.
  • Secure funding for a Return to Transit research and innovation program which supports the research on the safe return of ridership to transit as well as supports low carbon smart mobility focused projects.
  • Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.
  • Ontario’s recently cancelled Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account Fund has eliminated provincial sources of funding for the world-leading Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial.

Registration 925748-357352-40. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Gregor Robertson · Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Tim Hodgson · Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    To present the Foreign Affairs, Commerce & Trade (FACT) Task Force, a multi-stakeholder working group established by the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). Its purpose is to support Canada's transit manufacturing sector in navigating international trade challenges, particularly in light of recently imposed U.S. tariffs and anticipated Canadian countermeasures. The Task Force serves as a forum for manufacturers, suppliers, transit agencies, labour representatives, and academic experts to share insights, assess risks, and collaboratively develop policy recommendations. Its objective is to mitigate negative impacts on Canadian jobs, production capacity, and public mobility outcomes. The FACT Task Force advocates for tariff exemptions on transit-related goods and services, and for policy supports that protect domestic supply chains and sustain Canada's zero-emission transit goals.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Mélanie Joly · Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Anita Anand · Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Terry Duguid · Minister of Environment and Climate Change
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Jonathan Wilkinson · Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Dominic LeBlanc · President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Chrystia Freeland · Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, House of Commons
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Nathaniel Erskine-Smith · Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities of Canada, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
    Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Jonathan Wilkinson · Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Fraser · Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Infrastructure Canada (IC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Fraser · Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Fraser · Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    ClimateEconomic DevelopmentEnvironmentResearch and DevelopmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    ClimateEconomic DevelopmentEnvironmentResearch and DevelopmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Kyle Beauliua · Research and Development Officer, Transport Canada (TC)
    • Jaclyn Howell · Policy Analyst, Transport Canada (TC)
    • Bassam Javed · Program Engineer, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Christian Michaud · Economist, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    ClimateEconomic DevelopmentEnvironmentResearch and DevelopmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Eddy Perez · International Policy Analyst, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    EnvironmentResearch and DevelopmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Doug Ford · Honorable Premier, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    • Prabmeet Sarkaria · Honorable Minister, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    Transportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Vance Badawey · Member of Parliament, House of Commons

    EnvironmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Fraser · Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    HousingInfrastructureTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Gerard Peets · Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    InfrastructureTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Marjory Loveys · Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Justin Kho · Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    EnvironmentTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    • Sebastian Clarke · Director of Operations, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    HousingInfrastructureTransportation

    Official report

  • Reported by Josipa Petrunic · In-house (organization)

    EnergyEnvironmentTransportation

    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.