PolitiKit

Communicating with government officials about Trade and CUSMA and the need to ensure protections for North America's integrated automobile industry.

Discuss regulatory and legislative frameworks for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and the GHG standard, the changing macro-economic and geopolitical conditions surrounding ZEV adoption, and the need for changes to ZEV targets and penalties.

Share information about the success of the Pelorus VC fund and work in Newfoundland and Labrador with federal officials.

Advance discussions on policies and programs that advance prosperity and innovation in Atlantic Canada and beyond including procurement, productivity, healthtech, artifical intelligence, clean tech, skills, immigration and other topics of relevance to members.

The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is engaging with government officials to discuss the alignment between CCI’s priorities and the federal government’s efforts to foster innovation in Canada. These discussions focus on ensuring that government programs and policies effectively support high-growth Canadian technology firms and strengthen the country’s innovation ecosystem.

Discuss Atlantic Canadian global trade opportunities relevant to CCI members and emerging regional opportunities (particularly in defence and aerospace) with officials.

1. Renew, Expand, and Enhance Canada’s Natural Heritage Conservation Fund (NHCP); Support the renamed NHCP “Delivering the Canadian Nature Protection Fund (CNPF)” at 250M for 5 years with 1:1 match from private sector.

Enhancement of ecological gift program - increase in tax incentives for land donors, including cash donors towards conservation of land.

Endorse ACLT as the national representative of regional and local land trusts within the CNPF- Land Trust Conservation Fund (LTCF) to enhance the program through delivery of the outcomes related to expanding protected areas, restoring degraded landscapes, protecting species at risk, adapting to climate change, improving land management, and mobilizing private resources.

Enhancement of ecological gift program - increase in tax incentives for land donors, including cash donors towards conservation of land.

1. Renew, Expand, and Enhance Canada’s Natural Heritage Conservation Fund (NHCP); Support the renamed NHCP “Delivering the Canadian Nature Protection Fund (CNPF)” at 250M for 5 years with 1:1 match from private sector.

2. Create a Canada Conservation Investment Fund Establish a new $150 million endowment fund that will create a long-term funding stream to strengthen the capacity of local and regional land trusts to care for natural spaces in perpetuity. By creating an endowment fund, the Canada Conservation Investment Fund will help ensure the long-term care of Canada’s network of privately conserved areas.

Enhancement of ecological gift program - increase in tax incentives for land donors, including cash donors towards conservation of land.

Endorse ACLT as the national representative of regional and local land trusts within the CNPF- Land Trust Conservation Fund (LTCF) to enhance the program through delivery of the outcomes related to expanding protected areas, restoring degraded landscapes, protecting species at risk, adapting to climate change, improving land management, and mobilizing private resources.

2. Create a Canada Conservation Investment Fund Establish a new $150 million endowment fund that will create a long-term funding stream to strengthen the capacity of local and regional land trusts to care for natural spaces in perpetuity. By creating an endowment fund, the Canada Conservation Investment Fund will help ensure the long-term care of Canada’s network of privately conserved areas.

1. Renew, Expand, and Enhance Canada’s Natural Heritage Conservation Fund (NHCP); Support the renamed NHCP “Delivering the Canadian Nature Protection Fund (CNPF)” at 250M for 5 years with 1:1 match from private sector.

2. Create a Canada Conservation Investment Fund Establish a new $150 million endowment fund that will create a long-term funding stream to strengthen the capacity of local and regional land trusts to care for natural spaces in perpetuity. By creating an endowment fund, the Canada Conservation Investment Fund will help ensure the long-term care of Canada’s network of privately conserved areas.

Endorse ACLT as the national representative of regional and local land trusts within the CNPF- Land Trust Conservation Fund (LTCF) to enhance the program through delivery of the outcomes related to expanding protected areas, restoring degraded landscapes, protecting species at risk, adapting to climate change, improving land management, and mobilizing private resources.

Research and share information from Equal Voice's election tracker and other research projects and initiatives (e.g. national polling).

Addressing the barriers faced by women and gender diverse people seeking, and serving in elected office, such as financial, harassment, gender bias.

Obtain funding from the Department of Women and Gender Equality for leadership programming to increase the participation of women and gender diverse people in Canada's political life.

Research and share information from Equal Voice's election tracker and other research projects and initiatives (e.g. national polling).

Addressing the barriers faced by women and gender diverse people seeking, and serving in elected office, such as financial, harassment, gender bias.

Modernization of legislatures are more gender-inclusive, family-friendly and a workplace free from harassment

Advocating for the use of PQS and CEC professionals in federal infrastructure projects.

Recommending that compliance with the federal Buy Canadian Policy be certified by PQS and CEC professionals.

Providing education on the role of PQS and CEC professionals in project procurement, design, and delivery

Health human resources: Develop a strategy to recruit and retain radiologists, medical radiation technologists, and sonographers as part of a national approach to health human resources to reduce backlogs and improve health services.

Clinical decision support: Support the national integration of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems into electronic medical records (EMRs) to ensure that patients receive the right test at the right time.

Artificial Intelligence: Demonstrate leadership in AI by providing financial support for the Health Artificial Intelligence Validation Network (HAIVN) to improve the evaluation and regulation of AI in Canada as part of Health Canada’s Medical Devices Directorate regulatory process, for the purpose of improved healthcare, economic development and innovation in Canada.

Explaining Mosquito, Grizzly Bear’s Head, Lean Man First Nation’s resort-led development project as an active Nation-led economic development initiative, the need for federal investment, and its potential to drive tourism, employment, and regional growth in the North Battleford area.

Building understanding within the federal government of the Nation’s infrastructure, site-readiness, and business-planning needs, including roads, utilities, servicing, engineering, and pre-construction work required to advance a major Indigenous-led development on newly acquired lands.

Explaining Mosquito, Grizzly Bear’s Head, Lean Man First Nation’s resort-led development project as an active Nation-led economic development initiative, the need for federal investment, and its potential to drive tourism, employment, and regional growth in the North Battleford area.

Building understanding within the federal government of the Nation’s infrastructure, site-readiness, and business-planning needs, including roads, utilities, servicing, engineering, and pre-construction work required to advance a major Indigenous-led development on newly acquired lands.

Explaining Mosquito, Grizzly Bear’s Head, Lean Man First Nation’s resort-led development project as an active Nation-led economic development initiative, the need for federal investment, and its potential to drive tourism, employment, and regional growth in the North Battleford area.

Positioning the Nation’s residential plan and related housing plans as part of a broader housing development pipeline, and highlighting the opportunity for Canada to support and fund Indigenous-led housing, enabling infrastructure, and long-term community growth through this project.