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Lobbying by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: 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

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

Meetings this Parliament
110
With MPs
65
Since Nov 2021
243
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Oct 5, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 21, 2026

Filed by Yara Shoufani, President

Lobbyists

  • Alex Paterson · Senior Director, Strategy & Parliamentary Affairs Former public office holder

    Formerly Operations Assistant (FSWEP), Winnipeg Manitoba, Western Economic Diversification Canada (2010–2010)

  • Boutaïna Chafi · National Organizer
  • Mary Ann Matta · Senior Director of Development
  • Michael Bueckert · Vice President

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Finance Canada (FIN), Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Justice Canada (JC), National Defence (DND), National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Safety Canada (PS), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, Senate of Canada, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

What they're lobbying on (4)
  • Advocating that Canada impose emergency sanctions on the proposed E1 settlement block in the West Bank to prevent any Canadian economic involvement in the project.
  • Advancing recognition of the need for measures to curtail foreign interference and transnational repression experienced by Palestinians, Arabs, Muslim and Jewish communities in Canada based on their foreign policy views on the Middle East.
  • Advancing initiatives to address anti-Palestinian racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia in a coordinated manner that emphasizes preserving civil liberties and Canadian values.
  • Advocating that Canada impose economic sanctions under Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) on, and withdraw from economic and political treaties with, Israel to compel it to full comply with international law, as described in the ICJ advisory opinions of 2005 & 2024 and the ICJ provisional measures to prevent genocide.

Registration 962737-371184-27. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Thomas Woodley (127), Yara Shoufani (78), Michael Bueckert (38).

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Mohammad Al Zaibak · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Gwen Boniface · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Victor Boudreau · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • René Cormier · Senator, Senate of Canada
    and 22 more
    • Mary Coyle · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Pierre Dalphond · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Donna Dasko · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Baltej Dhillon · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Brian Francis · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Amina Gerba · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Peter Harder · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Katherine Hay · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Daniele Henkel · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Marilou McPhedran · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Julie Miville-Dechêne · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Lucie Moncion · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Rosemary Moodie · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Rosemary Moodie · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Tracy Muggli · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Flordeliz Osler · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Kim Pate · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Iris Petten · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Pierrette Ringuette · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Yuen Pau Woo · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Suze Youance · Senator, Senate of Canada
    • Hassan Yussuff · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Ethan Kelly · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Changing the way the government applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure Canada's migration regime is not engaging in systemic anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Pushing for reforms to the act to ensure it is consistent with international law and human rights. Ensuring Canada's migration streams are not based on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Jennifer Pedersen · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Yuen Pau Woo · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Amira Elghawaby · Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Don Davies · Member of Parliament
    • Peter Julian · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Colin Leger · Issues Manager, House of Commons
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Advocating repeal of the federal government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.

    Official report

  • Reported by Michael Bueckert · In-house (organization)

    • Jennifer Pedersen · Researcher, House of Commons
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    Advocating repeal of the federal government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.

    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Sean Illman-White · Parliamentary Assistant, House of Commons
    Encouraging a whole-of-government approach to ending Canadian complicity in Israeli settlements. Ensuring Canada enforces its war crimes legislation. Stopping Canadian participation in the settlement economy through legislative options to stop the import of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory and the end to real estate sales in Israeli settlements. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Sabeen Kazmi · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Jennifer Pedersen · Researcher, House of Commons
    Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Amira Elghawaby · Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Ethan Kelly · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    Changing the way the government applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure Canada's migration regime is not engaging in systemic anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Pushing for reforms to the act to ensure it is consistent with international law and human rights. Ensuring Canada's migration streams are not based on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Ethan Kelly · Legislative Assistant, House of Commons
    Changing the way the government applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure Canada's migration regime is not engaging in systemic anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Pushing for reforms to the act to ensure it is consistent with international law and human rights. Ensuring Canada's migration streams are not based on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Amira Elghawaby · Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Canadian Heritage (PCH)
    Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Thomas Woodley · In-house (organization)

    • Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Read more

    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.