PolitiKit

Lobbying to reduce Red Tape by focusing on removing interprovincial trade barriers, facilitating labour mobility and improving government customer service. This includes providing input for the consultations on the Annual Regulatory Modernization Bill.

Advocating on behalf of small and medium-sized businesses to facilitate trade between Canada and other countries (CAN-US tariffs, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, Chinese tariffs) and improving services offered to them with respect to returning the counter tariffs to affected Canadian small businesses and allowing more flexibility for lower volume, lower value shipments from the Release Prior to Payment (RPP) program under CBSA’s CARM System.

Promoting the recognition and adoption of modern digital payments infrastructure as a foundation for Canada’s economic resilience and innovation

Bill S-211: National Framework on Sports Betting Advertising Act

Développement international, concernant l’accessibilité des services financiers diversifiés aux populations moins favorisées de la planète.

Manufacturing Incentives – Working to shape policies and programs to support innovation, competitiveness and growth for manufacturers.

Providing input to government on regulatory modernization initiatives, including encouraging the enforcement of an economic lens to the design and implementation of all regulations.

Providing input to government on rules-based trade and e-commerce: working to ensure that international trade allows for the predictable flow of ingredients, products and people; addressing the rise of non-compliant and illicit products from entering the Canadian market; and advocating against protectionism (including new tariffs).

Supporting multi-lateral and bi-lateral trade negotiations and the implementation of existing agreements to reduce tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers on canola and its products.

Agricultural trade negotiations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Canada-India, Canada-China, with respect to more export market opportunities for grain farmers.

NACO engages on taxation and financial policy matters that affect angel investment and the availability of early-stage risk capital for Canadian entrepreneurs. NACO provides data, research, and practical perspectives informed by the experience of angel investors and early-stage companies to support the development of tax policies that encourage private investment at the earliest stages of company formation. Well-designed tax and financial policies can help strengthen Canada’s early-stage capital markets, support entrepreneurship, and improve the conditions for innovative companies to start, grow, and scale. NACO engages with policymakers to share insights from the angel and early-stage investment community and to contribute to discussions on how taxation and financial policy can support innovation, productivity, and long-term economic growth in Canada.

Canadian assistance to Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Central America regional, Ghana, West Africa regional, Sudan (North), Africa Regional, Great Lakes region of Africa, Bangladesh, India, Asia regional, Malaysia, Border regions of Burma, the Philippines with respect to areas of focus and modalities of delivery.

Overseas development assistance, with regard to quantity of support, thematic and geographic focus, and modalities of delivery.

National security threats to energy storage systems: Nuvation Energy seeks to promote policies/legislation that would protect Canadian businesses from foreign predatory economic practices.