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Lobbying by Torngat Metals Ltd.: 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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Corporation

Torngat Metals Ltd.

Meetings this Parliament
18
With MPs
7
Since Nov 2021
33
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Aug 18, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (corporation) In effect since Sep 28, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Maryse Belanger, Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Christine Burow · Chief Marketing Officer
  • Jean-François Samray · Directeur Relations gouvernementales
  • Maryse Belanger · Chief Executive Officer

Institutions they may lobby: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), 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), Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), 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), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada, Sept-Iles Port Authority, Transport Canada (TC)

What they're lobbying on (10)
  • Communicating our project’s alignment with Canadian and Quebec Critical Minerals strategies. Promoting awareness and seeking non-specific government guidance, grants, contributions, loans and other forms of financial support for various aspects of the project, including permitting, Indigenous support, preferred location(s) for processing facilities and project development. This includes exploring potential financial support from Natural Resources Canada, Export Development Canada and other relevant federal government programs and agencies.
  • Briefing government in support of the establishment of a Heavy and Light Rare Earth Element hub for Canada anchored by the Company's proposed mine and refinery in Quebec province and ancillary assets in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Potential support from Canada Growth Fund (CGF), Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund (CMIF), Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) or other suitable Canada / Quebec sources of government support. Project aligns closely with innovation, economic development, investment goals.
  • Sustainable Resource Development: Seek to ensure that any legislative initiatives affecting Critical Mineral resource development are grounded in the principles of sound science/evidence-based decision-making, efficiency of regulatory process and posit a meaningful role for Indigenous rights-holders and communities.
  • Lobbying with the government to facilitate and support the Company's efforts to secure a federal grant, contribution, or other financial benefit from the Government of Canada via departmental programs (e.g. NRCan, ISED), from Crown Corporations (e.g. EDC), and/or Arms-length independent bodies (e.g. Canada Growth Fund) and/or from other agencies, departments, and crown entities not yet identified, to support the establishment of a Heavy and Light Rare Earth Element hub for Canada anchored by the Company's proposed mine and refinery in Quebec province and ancillary assets in Labrador.
  • Lobbying to ensure that proposed Investment Tax Credits pertinent to the Critical Minerals sector are effective and impactful.
  • Lobbying related to the significant contribution which development of Canada's Light and Heavy Rare Earth Elements can make to the strategic security and defence partnership between Canada and the United States of America.
  • Lobbying related to the scope of any federal Impact Assessment on the Company's Strange Lake Rare Earths project in Quebec and Labrador, including discussion related to the question of provincial and Indigenous Rights-holders' Impact Assessment equivalency, standards, and programs.
  • Lobbying related to the development and implementation of The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, as it relates to resource development, in support of fair and effective policy design.
  • Lobbying on emerging policies and programs pertaining to Critical Minerals development and the establishment of robust North American supply chains to support a domestic advanced rare earth ecosystem, drive decarbonization of Canada’s economy and energy systems, and become a trusted and secure source of Critical Minerals to bolster Canada’s strategic position with the United States, with the European Union and with allied nations in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.

Registration 966074-376989-11. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Yves Leduc (17), Dirk Naumann (15), Maryse Belanger (1).

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Jamie Kippen · Chief of Staff, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
    • Joshua Swift · Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Ben Chin · Senior Advisor, Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Andrew Bevan · Chief of Staff, Finance Canada (FIN)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Paul Moen · Chief of Staff, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Paul Halucha · Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Clean Growth), Privy Council Office (PCO)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Ian Foucher · Chief of staff, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Laura Mitchell · Deputy Chief of Staff, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Samir Kassam · Director of Policy, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    Official report

  • Reported by Dirk Naumann · In-house (corporation)

    • Jeff Labonté · Associate Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • Rinaldo Jeanty · Assistant Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

    Aboriginal AffairsEnvironmentForeign AffairsIndustryMiningNatural Resources

    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.