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Lobbying by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation: 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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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

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

Most recent reported meeting: Jun 12, 2026.

Who they meet

Since the current Parliament opened.

Institutions

  • Health Canada (HC)1

Registrations in effect

Consultant In effect since Jul 23, 2026 Receives government funding

Consultant Kait LaForce of Counsel Public Affairs Inc.

Consultant lobbyists

  • Kait LaForce Former public office holder

    Formerly Manager, Office of Member of Parliament Filomena Tassi, House of Commons (2017–2018)

    Formerly Writer, Liberal Research Bureau, House of Commons (2016–2017)

  • Kait LaForce Former public office holder

    Formerly Manager, Office of Member of Parliament Filomena Tassi, House of Commons (2017–2018)

    Formerly Writer, Liberal Research Bureau, House of Commons (2016–2017)

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Justice Canada (JC), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Parks Canada (PC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Safety Canada (PS), Senate of Canada, Transport Canada (TC)

What they're lobbying on (18)
  • Seek a remission order for taxes levied on individuals living on lands now recognized as reserve lands
  • Addressing severe shortfalls and capacity issues in education delivery for indigenous youth.
  • Seek government support for economic development opportunities in Fort Chipewyan and the client's reserve lands.
  • Development of a baseline health study to monitor the impacts of the Athabasca oil sands on the client's members.
  • Engage in discussions regarding the enhancement of primary education for the client's members.
  • Ensure enforcement of federal government laws and regulations regarding the protection of treaty lands, at risk wildlife and rivers in proximity to the proposed Frontier Project near Wood Buffalo National Park.
  • Expediting the addition to reserve process.
  • Discussing the Client's priorities relating to tailings, release and transboundary water issues on the reserves
  • Advance accountability on the status of the environmental contamination at the dock in Fort Chipewyan.
  • Work with government on addition-to-reserve proposals to enhance economic development opportunities and recognize the client's presence in Fort Chipewyan.
  • Strengthening Canada's oil sands mining effluent regulations.
  • Seek government support for the development of essential infrastructure and housing on the client's reserve lands.
  • Seek acknowledgement and a formal apology from the Government of Canada for the client's forced relocation from its traditional territory in Wood Buffalo National Park.
  • Engagement around the establishment of a national framework for indigenous policing and related justice reforms.
  • Arranging meetings to obtain information regarding Indigenous investment and ownership opportunities regarding the Government of Canada's ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
  • Engage in discussions regarding the recognition of the client's rights & self-determination.
  • Species at risk protection for wood bison and caribou in northern Alberta.
  • Carbon pricing, and government measures to mitigate climate change

Registration 940796-386330-3. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

  • Reported by Kait LaForce · Consultant

    • Jibril Hussein · Senior Policy Advisor, Health Canada (HC)
    Development of a baseline health study to monitor the impacts of the Athabasca oil sands on the client's members.

    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.