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Lobbying by Canadian Real Estate 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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Canadian Real Estate Association

Meetings this Parliament
0
With MPs
0
Since Nov 2021
2
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Oct 21, 2024.

Registrations in effect

Consultant In effect since Apr 14, 2026

Consultant Gurcharan Garry Bhaura

Consultant lobbyists

  • Gurcharan Garry Bhaura
  • Gurcharan Garry Bhaura

Institutions they may lobby: Bank of Canada, Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), Canada Infrastructure Bank, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Finance Canada (FIN), Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (CIEC), Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI), Transport Canada (TC)

What they're lobbying on (25)
  • The role of Build Canada Homes (BCH) in addressing Canada’s housing needs, while ensuring the federal government continues to advance policies for the entire housing continuum. We strongly support that BCH must deliver deeply affordable, non-market housing for the most vulnerable in our society. Addressing homelessness and ensuring low-income Canadians have safe, secure housing is essential to building a fair and inclusive Canada, and REALTORS® are committed to helping make this a success. However, solving the housing crisis requires addressing the full continuum of needs. That means ensuring Build Canada Homes must demonstrate that federal investments can unlock attainable, market-based housing for middle-class families who are increasingly shut out of ownership.
  • Partner with provinces, territories and municipalities on a National Housing Strategy that prioritizes housing choice across the full continuum, from ending homelessness to rebuilding the pathway to homeownership for generations of Canadians. Identify clearly defined, outcome-driven mandates for both Build Canada Homes (BCH) and the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Commit to the preservation and restoration of an attainable pathway to homeownership for middle-class Canadians, including an increased national focus on helping create more missing middle supply across the country.
  • Introduce targeted measures to support seniors in transitioning to appropriately sized housing within their existing communities— by enabling aging in place, facilitating home-sharing or rental of secondary suites, supporting downsizing, or allowing property severance to create additional housing units—thereby unlocking family-sized homes and generating retirement income while addressing the housing needs of younger Canadian families.
  • The federal government should help scale and catalyze the modern methods of construction, such as the prefabricated housing industry to leverage and strengthen this emerging industry for the benefit of all Canadians and the entire housing system. It is recommended that building code harmonization—to improve affordability and innovation—be paired with a further requirement of the CSA A277 standard to be adopted by provinces and territories to ensure compliance, facilitate faster approval and processes, and create consistency across the country.
  • To urge the federal government to continue pressuring provinces and municipalities to reduce development taxes, and to collaborate with them to identify, mandate, and implement alternative funding mechanisms in place of development taxes.
  • Amendments and modernization of the GST/HST new housing rebate.
  • The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing (PCMLTFA) with respect to a threshold for and reduced compliance for small business
  • The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing (PCMLTF) with respect to compliance regarding mere postings on Multiple Listing Service (R) Systems, and application to For Sale By Owner Companies and auctioneers.
  • The mortgage insurance guarantee framework with respect to changes to mortgage financing rules for homebuyer
  • The Canadian Aviation Regulations with respect to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for use for real estate listings.
  • Risk Based Approach guidance provided by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Sector with respect to its impact on REALTORS(R).
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan with regard to the Home Buyers' Plan.
  • Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act with respect to the implementation of the Regulations Amending the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Regulations published in the Canada Gazette Part II on February 13, 2013 and the guidance provided by FINTRAC as a result of those regulations and their impact on real estate agents and brokers.
  • Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act - regulations regarding reporting requirements
  • Mortgage financing rules under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
  • Implementation of Code of Conduct for Federally Regulated Financial Institutions—Mortgage Prepayment Information with respect to enhancing borrower awareness
  • Implementation of Code of Conduct for Federally Regulated Financial Institutions—Mortgage Prepayment Information with respect to enhancing borrower awareness
  • First-Time Home Buyers' Tax Credit with respect to impact on first-time homebuyers.
  • Consumers and Real Estate Transactions such a the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act
  • Comprehensive Financial Consumer Code with respect to mortgage policy
  • Canadian government's role with respect to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it impacts the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and regulations.
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation with respect to the composition of its Board of Directors
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation policy with respect to serving underserved markets with mortgage default insurance, mortgage default insurance deductibles and role as a public sector provider of mortgage default insurance.
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Policy with respect to the National Risk Assessment with respect to its impact on REALTORS(R).
  • An Act respecting certain measures in response to COVID-19 and other COVID-19 related policy with respect to support for the self-employed, independent contractors, small businesses, those living on a commission-based income.

Registration 957395-377340-7. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

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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.