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Lobbying by News Media Canada: 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

News Media Canada

Meetings this Parliament
74
With MPs
4
Since Nov 2021
291
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Oct 28, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Oct 13, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Paul Deegan, President and Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Paul Deegan · President and Chief Executive Officer

Institutions they may lobby: CUSMA Secretariat, Canada Post Corporation (CPC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Competition Bureau Canada (COBU), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Justice Canada (JC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

What they're lobbying on (18)
  • Ensure sustainability of media in the age of AI is on the agenda at the EU-Canada Summit.
  • Ensuring Canada preserves its digital and cultural policy sovereignty and maintains the Online News Act.
  • Ensure retailer flyer printing and distribution in Canada remains competitive.
  • At a time when the news publishing industry is facing soaring costs due to inflation, advertising competition from foreign Big Tech giants, and the theft of journalistic content by AI companies, ensure Canada Post offers community newspaper publishers the same rates and level of service they are offering to the dominant commercial printer in Canada. Ensure there is healthy competition in the flyer printing and distribution markets across Canada.
  • Amend the definition of a Qualified Canadian Journalism organization (QCJO), requiring that an organization regularly employ two or more journalists to include: journalists who do not deal at arm’s length with the organization. This would generally include owners/partners who actively pursue, research, analyze, explain, edit, format, design, write or report the news, or select, plan, or assign work, in accordance with journalistic processes and principles. They would work, on average, a minimum of 26 hours per week and spend at least 75% of their time engaged in the production of original written news content, including researching, collecting information, verifying facts, photographing, writing, editing, designing and otherwise preparing content.
  • To halt the theft of copyright protected news content, Public Services and Procurement Canada and Treasury Board should ensure those on the government’s list of interested artificial intelligence suppliers sign a "supplier commitment to support the Government of Canada’s effort in leading the way on ethical AI” that includes a commitment to the principles of transparency, consent, and attribution with respect to all copyright-protected source content.
  • Ensure that the Online News Act continues and that funding is distributed in accordance with the Act and its Regulations. Ensure social media services covered by the Online News Act do not allow publisher content to be reproduced (screen shots, copied text, etc.) without providing compensation to news businesses.
  • Protect intellectual property by preventing LLMs from scraping journalistic content. Ensure search engines cannot abuse their dominant position by de-indexing Canadian news sites if publishers block their AI bots from crawling our protected content without consent, credit, and compensation.
  • Ensure any policy changes to the Aid to Publishers component of the Canadian Periodical Fund take into account the importance of the program, especially to smaller rural community newspapers.
  • Align the Government of Canada advertising policy with the Government of Canada's "Buy Canadian Policy" by directing the Agency of Record to ensure a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.
  • Ensure Canada Post continues to perform its vital role deliver community newspapers to Canadians. Have Canada Post return to the long-standing policy of exempting community newspapers with commercial inserts (e.g., flyers from local hardware and grocery franchisees) from the Consumers’ Choice program. Community newspapers with commercial inserts are not ‘junk mail’.
  • Ensure that the Copyright Act is not modified through an exception permitting Text and Data Mining (TDM) allowing AI companies to use Canadian news publishers' protected works to train generative AI systems without consent, credit, or compensation.
  • For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public.
  • Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising.
  • Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.
  • Abuse of dominance and anti?competitive business practices related to online search, search advertising and display advertising services in Canada.
  • Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.
  • Eliminating commercial advertising, including branded content, associated with CBC/Radio-Canada’s news and public affairs properties.

Registration 775906-369981-30. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Harold Boies · Director, Periodical Policy and Programs, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Karl Lamirande · Manager, Newspaper Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Owen Ripley · Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Joelle Pare · A/Director, Marketplace and Legislative Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Arts and CultureIntellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Michel Sabbagh · Director General, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Frederick Matern · Manager, Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Julie Bialas · Research Analyst, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Miska Tetu · Manager, Issues Management, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Lisa Hepfner · Member of Parliament
    • Sarah Leclair · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Harold Boies · Director, Periodical Policy and Programs, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Ramzi Saad · Director General, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Drew Olsen · Associate Director General, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Media

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Ron Ahluwalia · Director of Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Elliott Lockington · Chief of Staff, Finance Canada (FIN)

    MediaTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Ron Ahluwalia · Director of Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Harold Boies · Director, Periodical Policy and Programs, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Media

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Tim Louis · Member of Parliament
    • Mallory Ament · Parliamentary Assistant, House of Commons

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Harold Boies · Director, Periodical Policy and Programs, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Ashish Sharma · Senior Policy and Research Analyst, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Media

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Harold Boies · Director, Periodical Policy and Programs, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Karl Lamirande · Manager, Newspaper Policy, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Media

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    • Simon Ross · Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • John Nater · Member of Parliament
    • Keith Mitchell · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Colin Deacon · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Benedicta Arthur · Issues Management & Research, Senate of Canada
    • David Dlab · Parliamentary Affairs Adviser, Senate of Canada

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Simon Kennedy · Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Peter Julian · Member of Parliament & NDP House Leader, House of Commons
    • Doris Mah · Chief of Staff to Peter Julian MP, House of Commons

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Tony Loffreda · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Eric Gagnon · Adviser, Senate of Canada

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Brian MacKay · Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian Heritage (PCH)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Lorna Bonvie · Director, Advertising and Marketing, Privy Council Office (PCO)

    Government ProcurementMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Jim Quinn · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Lyle Skinner · Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Senate of Canada

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    Official report

  • Reported by Paul Deegan · In-house (organization)

    • Peter Opdam · Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    Intellectual PropertyMedia

    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.