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Lobbying by Inclusion 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

Inclusion Canada

Meetings this Parliament
45
With MPs
22
Since Nov 2021
45
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 29, 2026.

Bills they've lobbied on

Named in their own descriptions of meetings or of their registration. Their words are quoted below each bill.

Who they meet

Since the current Parliament opened.

MPs

Institutions

  • House of Commons25
  • Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)8
  • Senate of Canada5
  • Finance Canada (FIN)3
  • Prime Minister's Office (PMO)2
  • Justice Canada (JC)2
  • Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)1

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Jul 1, 2026 Receives government funding

Filed by Krista Carr, Chief Executive Officer

Lobbyists

  • Andrew Holland · Director, Communications & Marketing
  • Elsie Tellier · Legal and Policy Counsel
  • Emily Dwyer · Director, Government Relations
  • Frank Fagan · Assistant National Director - Ready, Willing & Able
  • Goldie Turk · Articling student
  • Gordon Porter · Director, Inclusive Education Canada
  • Jason Carr · Director, Philanthropy
  • Jeff Ferguson · Executive Director, Knowledge & Strategy
  • Krista Carr · Chief Executive Officer
  • Kurt Goddard · Executive Director, Legal and Public Affairs
  • Lateisha Ugwuegbula · Senior Policy Analyst
  • Rachel Mills · Senior Policy Analyst
  • Tara Levandier · Executive Director, Operations and Social Impact

Institutions they may lobby: Accessibility Standards Canada, Canada Employment Insurance Commission, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Elections Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Invest in Canada Hub, Justice Canada (JC), Law Commission of Canada, National Research Council (NRC), Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada, Service Canada (ServCan), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Standards Council of Canada (SCC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

What they're lobbying on (9)
  • Advancing Human Rights. Provide technical support and consultation to the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and associated regulations. Advocate for Canada's fulfillment of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and monitor that implementation. This includes advocacy around the Community Inclusion Initiative (CII), an SDPP-D program that supports community-led action to advance the social inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families.
  • Legal Capacity. Influence the adoption by the federal government of consistent guidelines and policies that explicitly recognize and support the use of supported decision making as a primary alternative to guardianship. Grounded in the recognition of legal capacity - and the right to access support to exercise that right - contained in article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Inclusion Canada advocates for law reform and a national framework to enshrine and safeguard the right of people with intellectual disabilities to make decisions for themselves (legal capacity, supported decision making...).
  • Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits.
  • Inclusive Education. Develop and launch a national strategy to support and enhance inclusive education. Influence reform on the barriers to accessing quality inclusive education at all levels.
  • Inclusive and Affordable Housing. Advocate for the transformation of congregate, segregated housing into inclusive living. Stop federal investment in congregate housing and advocate for these funds to instead be used for inclusive community options. Change the Registered Disability Savings Plan to better support housing needs. Advise policymakers on development of inclusive community housing. Engagement with existing and forthcoming legislation on housing policy, including the Build Canada Homes Act and the National Housing Strategy Act.
  • Employment. Transform and/or close sheltered work programs and transition to programs that enable real work for real pay (such as that advanced through Ready, Willing, Able). Secure funding to sustain and grow the Ready, Willing, Able initiative.
  • Access to Justice. We advocate for the federal government to take all necessary measures, including through regulation, policy or law reform, to ensure equal access to justice for persons with an intellectual disability. These include advocating for the federal government to 1. Develop and implement a comprehensive, multi-year strategy rooted in Article 13 of the CRPD, ensuring equal access to justice for persons with an intellectual disability. 2. Recognize and address the systemic discrimination faced by persons with an intellectual disability in the justice system, dismantling the barriers rooted in ableism. 3. Recognize and address the intersectional discrimination faced by Indigenous persons with an intellectual disability in the justice system, taking steps to dismantle the compounded barriers rooted in ableism and systemic racism. 4. Ensure the provision of tailored and accessible legal information, representation, and support services to all persons with an intellectual disability, embracing the diversity of their communication methods and acknowledging the spectrum of their disabilities. 5. Guarantee that persons with an intellectual disability are treated with dignity and respect in the criminal justice system. 6. Involve persons with an intellectual disability in the development of policies and practices related to access to justice. 7. Challenge stereotypes and prejudices about persons with an intellectual disability, promoting understanding and inclusion.
  • Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society.
  • Access to Healthcare. Advance a coordinated federal health equity strategy by promoting evidence-based guidelines for inclusive health care delivery for people with an intellectual disability and their families. These include working with Public Health to make public health information easier to understand; working to make sure that people with an intellectual disability are included in initiatives that improve access to maternal healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and mental healthcare; and fighting for the lives of people with disabilities to be equally valued and protected in Canadian healthcare systems and laws. Advocate for adequate funding to ensure equal access and treatment as well as to fund and implement a national intellectual disability mental health strategy.

Registration 964375-385390-2. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    Employment. Transform and/or close sheltered work programs and transition to programs that enable real work for real pay (such as that advanced through Ready, Willing, Able). Secure funding to sustain and grow the Ready, Willing, Able initiative. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    Employment. Transform and/or close sheltered work programs and transition to programs that enable real work for real pay (such as that advanced through Ready, Willing, Able). Secure funding to sustain and grow the Ready, Willing, Able initiative. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    Employment. Transform and/or close sheltered work programs and transition to programs that enable real work for real pay (such as that advanced through Ready, Willing, Able). Secure funding to sustain and grow the Ready, Willing, Able initiative. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Chantal Petitclerc · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Advancing Human Rights. Provide technical support and consultation to the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and associated regulations. Advocate for Canada's fulfillment of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and monitor that implementation. Read more

    Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits.

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Victor Boudreau · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits. Read more

    Advancing Human Rights. Provide technical support and consultation to the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and associated regulations. Advocate for Canada's fulfillment of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and monitor that implementation.

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Marilou McPhedran · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Advancing Human Rights. Provide technical support and consultation to the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and associated regulations. Advocate for Canada's fulfillment of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and monitor that implementation. Read more

    Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits.

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Mary Jane McCallum · Senator, Senate of Canada

    C-218

    Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits. Read more

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society.

    Advancing Human Rights. Provide technical support and consultation to the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and associated regulations. Advocate for Canada's fulfillment of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and monitor that implementation.

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Legal Capacity. Influence the adoption by the federal government of consistent guidelines and policies that explicitly recognize and support the use of supported decision making as a primary alternative to guardianship. Grounded in the recognition of legal capacity - and the right to access support to exercise that right - contained in article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Inclusion Canada advocates for law reform and a national framework to enshrine and safeguard the right of people with intellectual disabilities to make decisions for themselves (legal capacity, supported decision making...).

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Chantal Petitclerc · Senator, Senate of Canada
    Income Security. Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility. Advancing policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers. This will included engagement on the Canada Disability Benefit Act, and associated regulations, and advocacy to ensure adequate funding to these benefits. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    • Thomas Law · Senior Policy Advisor to Canada's Minister of Justice, Justice Canada (JC)
    • Hanife Masoomi · Policy Advisor and Issues Manager to the Minister of Justice, Justice Canada (JC)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. Read more

    Official report

  • Reported by Krista Carr · In-house (organization)

    C-218

    Access to Healthcare. Influence the repeal of assisted suicide based on disability and prevent the expansion of assisted suicide. This includes advocacy relating to existing and forthcoming legislation, bills and parliamentary studies of the issue such as: the AMAD Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the March 2027 sunset clause relating to MAiD and mental illness, Bill C-218, and any new government legislation. We also advocate for measures to address the root causes of suicidality including social services, health supports, access to housing and full inclusion in all aspects of society. 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.