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Lobbying by Generate 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

Generate Canada

Meetings this Parliament
2
With MPs
1
Since Nov 2021
26
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 4, 2025.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Sep 3, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by David Hughes, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Lobbyists

  • Ashley Honsberger · Interim Executive Director, CANZA
  • Barbara Swartzentruber · Program Director, Agriculture and Food Systems, CANZA
  • Cher Mereweather · Managing Director, Canada Plastics Pact
  • David Hughes · President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • Eleanor Jeffrey · Senior Project Manager, Circular Construction Canada
  • Hamish Stewart · Director, Market Building Initiatives, Nature Investment Hub
  • Paige Olmsted · Director, Research and Strategy, Nature Investment Hub
  • Paul Shorthouse · Managing Director, Circular Construction Canada
  • Priya Bala-Miller · Managing Director, Nature Investment Hub Former public office holder

    Formerly Senior Policy Advisor - Sustainable Finance [EC 06], Strategic Policy Branch, Natural Resources Canada (2022–2024)

    Formerly Senior Policy Advisor - Conservation Finance [EC 05], Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada (2021–2022)

Institutions they may lobby: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Canada Infrastructure Bank, Canadian Energy Regulator (CER), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Export Development Canada (EDC), Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI), Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan), Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada

What they're lobbying on (4)
  • Seeking funding and support from various government entities for Generate Canada and its programs or Solution Spaces including including the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP), Circular Construction Canada (CCC), the Canadian Alliance for Net Zero Agri-food (CANZA), the Nature Investment Hub (NIH), and the Energy Futures Lab (EFL).
  • Providing government with regulatory recommendations derived from multi-stakeholder convening exercises and evidence-based analysis aimed at fostering a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits.
  • Providing government with policy and program recommendations derived from multi-stakeholder convening exercises and evidence-based analysis aimed at fostering a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits.
  • Providing government with legislative recommendations derived from multi-stakeholder convening exercises and evidence-based analysis aimed at fostering a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits.

Registration 948127-372462-15. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by David Hughes · In-house (organization)

    • Kurtis Layden · Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    Climate

    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.