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Lobbying by Canadian Renewable Energy 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 Renewable Energy Association

Meetings this Parliament
102
With MPs
17
Since Nov 2021
231
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 23, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Aug 2, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Vittoria Bellissimo, President and CEO

Lobbyists

  • Eddie Oldfield · Manager of Policy for the Maritimes
  • Fernando Melo · Senior Director of Public Affairs and Federal Policy
  • Imran Noorani · Vice President of Policy
  • Jean Habel · Senior Director of Policy for Quebec and Atlantic Canada
  • Phil McKay · Senior Director of Member Programs
  • Radha Rajagopalan · Director of Policy for Alberta
  • Vittoria Bellissimo · President and CEO
  • Wesley Johnston · Chief Business Officer

Institutions they may lobby: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Canada Infrastructure Bank, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Export Development Canada (EDC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada

What they're lobbying on (12)
  • Providing advice on the labour market needs of the renewable energy and energy storage sector. This includes the Energy and Electricity Alliance
  • The proposed amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and other Acts as put forward in Getting Major Projects Built in Canada Discussion Paper.
  • Inform federal discussions on how to promote a sustainable domestic clean technology manufacturing industry.
  • Inform amendments to Canada's Clean Economy Investment Tax Credits that support the further deployment of renewable energy and energy storage.
  • Inform the further development of Canada's carbon pricing trajectory, and fix the benchmark and improve the backstop for Canada's GreenhouseGas Pollution Pricing Act.
  • Providing advice on policy measures and improvements to increase Canada's investability in renewable energy sector
  • Providing input on the federal government's new measures to protect and transform Canada’s steel and lumber industries
  • Development of a fund or program to provide access to low cost capital for Canadians wishing to purchase and install residential photovoltaic solar and energy storage.
  • Providing advice on Canada's Clean Electricity Strategy, specifically offering input that would accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and energy storage both in front of the meter and behind the meter.
  • Advocating for policies that would encourage the development of a stronger domestic supply chain for the renewable energy and energy storage sectors.
  • Development of financial mechanisms to increase Indigenous communities' and companies' ability to access the capital required to develop renewable energy and energy storage projects.
  • Canada's response to the US Industry and Security Bureau's Notice of Request for Public Comments on Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Wind Turbines and Their Parts and Components

Registration 953392-366997-36. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Vittoria Bellissimo (204), Robert Hornung (27).

  • Reported by Vittoria Bellissimo · In-house (organization)

    • Soren Halverson · Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • André Bernier · Director General, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Vittoria Bellissimo · In-house (organization)

    • Fiona Simons · Director of Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Vittoria Bellissimo · In-house (organization)

    • Soren Halverson · Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance Canada (FIN)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Vittoria Bellissimo · In-house (organization)

    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Joshua Swift · Regional Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Douglas Nevison · Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • John Moffet · Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Vida Ebadi · Regional Advisor, Prairies & North at Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Fiona Simons · Director of Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Kaylie Stathopulos · Special Assistant, West Desk, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Hannah Wilson · Regional Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)
    • Galen Richardson · Senior Regional Advisor, Prairies and North, DPM and Finance, Finance Canada (FIN)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • André Bernier · Director General, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Soren Halverson · Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Raphaël Beauchamp · Senior Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Tony Maas · Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Soren Halverson · Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Hannah Wilson · Regional Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Steven Guilbeault · Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Hannah Wilson · Regional Advisor, Finance Canada (FIN)

    BudgetEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Nina Lothian · Director, Fossil Fuels, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Conor MacNeil · Senior Advisor, Policy & Legal Affairs, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Marjory Loveys · Director of Policy and Indigenous Relations, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Eamonn McGuinty · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Fiona Simons · Director of Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Kyle Harrietha · Deputy Chief of Staff, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Mollie Johnson · Assistant Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetClimateEnergyEnvironment

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Blake Oliver · Senior Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Kyle Fox · Policy Advisor, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

    BudgetEnergyEnvironmentHousing

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Cheryl Cardinal · Director of Indigenous Procurement, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
    • Lars Wessman · Senior policy advisor, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)

    EnergyEnvironmentInfrastructure

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Joanna Dafoe · Director of Climate, Energy and International Affairs to Min. Wilkinson, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Nina Lothian · Director, Fossil Fuels, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    BudgetEnergyEnvironmentTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Robert Hornung · In-house (organization)

    • Kyle Harrietha · Deputy Chief of Staff, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Fiona Simons · Director of Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Yasmine Attassi · Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Special Assistant, Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    BudgetEnergyEnvironmentHousingInfrastructureTaxation and Finance

    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.