Organization
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATION DES INFIRMIERES ET INFIRMIERS DU CANADA(CNA)
- Meetings this Parliament
- 62
- With MPs
- 33
- Since Nov 2021
- 271
- Active registrations
- 1
Most recent reported meeting: Oct 15, 2026.
Lobbying by CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATION DES INFIRMIERES ET INFIRMIERS DU CANADA(CNA): 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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Most recent reported meeting: Oct 15, 2026.
In-house (organization) In effect since Aug 31, 2026
Filed by Valerie Grdisa, Chief Executive Officer
Institutions they may lobby: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Health Canada (HC), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), Justice Canada (JC), National Defence (DND), Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG), Office of the Secretary to the Governor General (OSGG), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Public Safety Canada (PS), Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)
Registration 958587-75-110. Look it up in the official Registry
Filed by Tim Guest (104), Valerie Grdisa (93), Michael Villeneuve (74).
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Harmonize nursing regulatory practices to support a responsive and sustainable nursing workforce
Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Funding to support nursing certification across Canada to strengthen the safe delivery of expert care to older adults.
Create a national licensure framework for nurses
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs.
Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds.
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.
Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Funding to support nursing certification across Canada to strengthen the safe delivery of expert care to older adults.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Provide funding for a comprehensive, universal, public, affordable prescription medication coverage that ensures access in all health-care settings based on need and not the ability to pay
Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Reported by Valerie Grdisa · In-house (organization)
Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
Development of pan-Canadian standards for equal access, consistent quality, and necessary staffing, training and protocols for the long-term care sector, including home, community, and institutional settings, with increased funding and proper accountability measures and outcomes.
Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
Strengthening and creating programs to support illness prevention and health promotion, long term care, palliative care, home and community care, affordable housing and other social determinants of health
Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs.
Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing
Pandemic Planning and COVID-19: ensure all nurses are properly supported and protecting by ensuring appropriate stockpiling of PPE, support for mental health while on the front lines, support for nursing students, increased access to education and training when return to work or working in various care setting while responding to a pandemic, ensuring appropriate guidelines and resources are disseminated and developed and ensure senior nurses are part of discussions and advisory review boards during pandemics in planning phases as well as post pandemic in the review.
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.