Meetings with Chris Warkentin reported by registered lobbyists. Lobbyists must report every oral, arranged meeting with an MP, minister or other designated public office holder.
Celiac Canada is asking Health Canada to implement changes to fortification of gluten-free flour to the equivalence of gluten-containing flours and seek modernization of gluten-free regulations.Read more
Public awareness of celiac disease in Canada to help improve diagnosis rates and improve quality of life.
National School Food Program, inclusive food policies for people with celiac disease.
Research to help find, treat and cure celiac disease to improve quality of life of those afflicted.
Seniors health, access to safe food in long term care and assisted living facilities
Monitoring access to safe gluten-free food for Canadians with celiac disease.
Request amendments to the Income Tax Act to help remove the administrative barriers preventing Canadians affected by celiac disease from claiming the excess (incremental) cost of gluten-free products as a medical expense under section 118.2(2)(r) of the Act.
Consultation C-5 Alberta Federal Memorandum of Understanding and Environmental Protection to waterwaysRead more
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking support for economic development projects such as the development of new retail locations as well as manufacturing facilities on reserve lands
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking to assert and affirm its inherent and constitutional Rights over the delivery of Child & Family Services. This includes funding made available through Indigenous Services Canada's First Nation Child & Family Services Program (FNCFS) as well as through a Fiscal Agreement signed in conjunction with a Coordination Agreement pursuant to An Act Respecting First Nation, Inuit, and Metis Children, Youth and FamiliesRead more
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking support for economic development projects such as the development of new retail locations as well as manufacturing facilities on reserve lands
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Treaty 8 annuity payments and related compensation issues
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Treaty 8 annuity payment obligations and related federal policy or program matters, with respect to the administration of annual treaty annuity payments, past annuity compensation, and federal engagement with Treaty 8 First Nations on the fulfillment of treaty annuity obligations.
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Federal impact assessment and consultation for major projects affecting Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation
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Impact Assessment Act, federal environmental assessment policy, and the Canada–Alberta Co-operation Agreement on Environmental and Impact Assessment, with respect to federal decision-making, Indigenous consultation, accommodation, cumulative effects, and protection of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s Treaty and Aboriginal rights in relation to major projects in Alberta that may affect the Nation’s lands, waters, rights, and interests.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is exploring a renewed fiscal relationship with Indigenous Services Canada
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking to develop programs and services that will address socio-economic issues impacting Members of the Nation
Regulations pursuant to the Broadcasting Act -
Ensuring that CRTC regulations that affect the Canadian recording industry appropriately promote Canadian artists and creative industries.Read more
Amendments to the Copyright Act - To bring the Copyright Act in line with advances in technology and current international standards and provide fair and predictable rules for copyright in the digital environment.
Amendments to the Broadcasting Act - to ensure that the Broadcasting Act protects and supports Canadian music creators and their works in the digital environment.
Discuss potential artificial intelligence regulations and governance measures that ensure that creators and their intellectual property are protected in the digital environment
INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Negotiating bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements and promoting them to Canadian businesses.Read more
IMMIGRATION - Reducing regulatory burdens for employers; promoting immigration to small, rural and northern communities; supporting regional and local community immigration strategies; maintaining and modernizing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program; Facilitating pathways to permanent residency for temporary residents (international students and TFWs; expediting and simplifying foreign credential recognition, calling for an international student and global talent strategy; improving language training as well as settlement and employment supports to newcomers, aligning immigration programs with labour market needs, improving the Start-Up Visa process, improving client services to potential immigrants and newcomers.
HOUSING - Advocate for policies and legislation that enable the creation of more housing supply, incentivize investment in residential construction and housing – enabling infrastructure, and support the development of skilled labour we need, whether domestically or through immigration, to restore housing affordability to Canadian families.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE – With respect to issues relating to trade controls, including tariffs, import and export controls, sanctions, and trade remedies.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Encouraging private sector generated economic development in Canada’s provinces and territories
Taxation and Finance: Policies with respect to fuel taxation; policies with respect to tax measures to generate more clean technology investments.Read more
Science and Technology: Canada's policies with respect to innovation and the use of clean technologies in the energy sector.
Discuss financial sector policy matters, in particular: privacy legislation; payments system developments; government policies related to payments, e-commerce and data security; Bank Act legislative and regulatory changes.Read more
Natural Health Products Regulations – fair and consistent interpretation by the regulator. Plain Language Labeling under the self-care products framework. Personal importation of natural health products.Read more
Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act – Ensure sensible rules for natural health products. Address prohibition on sampling of natural health products directly to the consumer. Implication of Health Canada’s proposed Consumer Health Products Framework. Consideration of the 53 recommendations made in 1998 by the Standing Committee on Health.
General review of all forest sector files and update on state of the industry to give public officials a better understanding of recent industry developments and key issues.Read more
Support for the transformation of the forest sector, including any impact on current or future regulations or policy initiatives. .
Chris Warkentin · Member of Parliament for Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Communicating with the Government of Canada, in general, about opportunities and challenges facing the oil and gas sector in Canada, including as it relates to investor confidence, competitiveness and export market development. The goal of these communications is to increase investment in Canada.Read more
Meeting with public office holders to discuss Bill C-53, An Act respecting the recognition of certain Métis governments in Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan, to give effect to treaties with those governments and to make consequential amendments to other ActsRead more
Robert Kitchen · Member of Parlilament, House of Commons
Bryce McRae · Manager of Stakeholder Relations, House of Commons
Michelle Ferreri · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Francis Drouin · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Larry McGuire · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Daniel Hughes · Office of Damien Kurek, House of Commons
Peter Julien · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Don Stewart · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Karen Vecchio · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Joyce Murray · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Natural Health Products Regulations – fair and consistent interpretation by the regulator. Plain Language Labeling under the self-care products framework. Personal importation of natural health products.Read more
Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act – Ensure sensible rules for natural health products. Address prohibition on sampling of natural health products directly to the consumer. Implication of Health Canada’s proposed Consumer Health Products Framework. Consideration of the 53 recommendations made in 1998 by the Standing Committee on Health.
Chris Warkentin · Member of Parliament for Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Communicating with government officials, in general, about the production of renewable diesel, including the construction and operation of Imperial’s renewal diesel facility at their Strathcona refinery in Alberta.Read more
Andrew Scheer · Member of Parliament for Regina—Qu'Appelle
Chris Warkentin · Member of Parliament for Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Communicating about potential collaboration between industry and government in the area of greenhouse gas emissions, including potential investments in carbon carbon capture, utilization and storage ("CCUS").Read more
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking support for economic development projects such as the development of new retail locations as well as manufacturing facilities on reserve landsRead more
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is exploring a renewed fiscal relationship with Indigenous Services Canada
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking to develop programs and services that will address socio-economic issues impacting Members of the Nation
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is seeking to assert and affirm its inherent and constitutional Rights over the delivery of Child & Family Services. This includes funding made available through Indigenous Services Canada's First Nation Child & Family Services Program (FNCFS) as well as through a Fiscal Agreement signed in conjunction with a Coordination Agreement pursuant to An Act Respecting First Nation, Inuit, and Metis Children, Youth and Families
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.
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