Meetings with Bardish Chagger reported by registered lobbyists. Lobbyists must report every oral, arranged meeting with an MP, minister or other designated public office holder.
Develop housing policy that creates more housing across the housing continuum including increasing home ownership.
Develop regulation on Real Estate sector oversight that protects Realtors and the public.Read more
Natural Health Products Regulations – advocacy for fair and consistent interpretation by the regulator. Ensuring plain Language Labeling under the self-care products framework is fair. Advocacy against allowing 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.
Oppose amendments to the Food and Drugs Act to extend powers brought in under the 'ProtectCanadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa’s Law)' to regulate natural health products.
Office is based in China. Red Meat industry has a series of regulatory and trade issues that the Canadian government is working to advance. The work our office is doing is to also lobby the federal government to ensure our issues remain a priority and that they understand the on the ground dynamics.
On the beef side of the office it is to remain in market and on the pork side it is to see the 25% tariff that china imposed removed.Read more
Evan Salomon · Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Digital Innovation and Minister, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
Communicate about Qorsa's cybersecurity solutions that protect against current sophisticated attacks and future quantum threats, in support of the Government of Canada's security, technological, industrial and resilience policy objectives — including the National Quantum Strategy, National Cyber Security Strategy, National AI Strategy, and Defence Industrial Strategy and accompanying action plans — to support strengthened cybersecurity, quantum preparedness, and the Canadian cybersecurity ecosystem.Read more
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.
Energy: Canada's energy policy with respect to a North American clean energy and environment agreement; policies with respect to fuel supply security; policies with respect to energy efficiency; SmartWay; policies with respect to emissions life cycle analysis; policies with respect to environmental assessment processes.
Ian Foucher · Chief of Staff, Finance Canada (FIN)
Federal Budgets as they relate to the steel sector, including measures associated with economic development, industrial competitiveness, innovation, and improving the climate for investment, including tax incentives.Read more
Trade Policy -- Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) and Possible new policies or regulations, and international negotiations, affecting Canada's international trade regime and consequences for the steel industry.
Varun Srivatsan · Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
Regulatory environment affecting the Canadian wireless market, including regulatory framework with regard to the requirements around rural network infrastructure builds, the policy framework around spectrum auction rules and regulations on the purchase of existing Canadian wireless companies.Read more
Advocacy regarding improving resilience and redundancy in TELUS’ network, including the potential to expand remote network connectivity and build out critical infrastructure in the North.
Varun Srivatsan · Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
Representations, comments and discussions regarding the drafting of proposed legislation by the Department of Finance proposing to implement tax measures concerning excessive interest and financing expenses (EIFEL).Read more
Varun Srivatsan · Deputy Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
Intellectual property - specifically related to IP policies that encourage private investment in development of technologies that support supply chain resiliencyRead more
Innovation - discussions regarding the Canadian government's Innovation Agenda; including programs government may be considering to foster innovation in the Canadian ICT industry (e.g. skills & training, centres of excellence, R&D funding and incentives, government use of technology)
Government Procurement - specifically Government priorities and role for private industry in helping to achieve government objectives - e.g. remote work, IT modernization, innovation and R&D intensive products, and crisis communications
Government funding for private sector R&D technology projects
Varun Srivatsan · Director of Policy to Canada’s Minister of Finance, Finance Canada (FIN)
Investment tax credit proposals, with respect to incentives for certain types of renewable and clean energy technologies, including energy storage, hydrogen, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and small modular reactors (SMRs).Read more
Discussion about policies in relation to defence industrialization in CanadaRead more
Discussion about funding programs in support of Thales Canada's future activities in Canada, engagement of economic development agencies and discussions about their funding programs and criteria for application.
Varun Srivatsan · Director of Policy, Finance Canada (FIN)
Discussing how Transport Canada can improve its resources and governance structure for civil aviation, including improvements to certification processes and alignment with bilateral partners.Read more
Discussing aerospace industry skilled labour requirements, including government immigration and employment support programs.
Communications regarding the implementation of the Defence Industrial Strategy, including related policies, programs, regulations and legislation which support production capacity of the aerospace industry in Canada, increase supports for export opportunities and development of international markets. Ensuring the Defence Industrial Strategy implementation, including related policies, programs, regulations and legislation supports the growth of the aerospace industry in Canada.
The Home Depot Canada Foundation, in partnership with A Way Home Canada, aims to advance federal policy change and increased investment in evidence-based youth homelessness prevention.Read more
A Way Home Canada, in partnership with the Home Depot Canada Foundation, aims to advance federal policy change and increased investment in evidence-based youth homelessness prevention.Read more
Gabriel Hardy · Member of Parliament, Health Canada (HC)
Colin Deacon · Senator, Senate of Canada
Suze Youance · Senator, House of Commons
Increases to the International Assistance Envelope
Allocations of the International Assistance EnvelopeRead more
Advocating spending priorities related to the dissemination of Canada's Official Development Assistance envelope to ensure that aid is targetted at initiatives that serve the world's poorest.
CLAC would like to continue to support the advancement of skilled trades workers and apprentices through ESDC.Read more
The client is a labour union whose members are actively working on significant major projects across Canada and want to continue to work on the strategically important public projects in Canada. CLAC wants to ensure that there are safe conditions for working on those projects that support the recruitment and advancement of workers while keeping projects open to all qualified workers in Canada.
CLAC helps to support all parts of the apprenticeship journey and is interested in programs and funding that can help to support training, recruitment and retention of apprentices and workers in the skilled trades.Read more
CLAC members want to work to help to build Canada and are active on major projects throughout Canada. They will advocate for policies and criteria to help support the delivery and construction of public projects in ways that will ensure good jobs and fair participation of all workers in Canada.
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.
Tara Lapointe · Member of Parliament, House of Commons
Advocacy related to enhancing accelerated investment incentives and seeking modifications to small business deduction eligibility, to better support capital investments for restaurants.Read more
Advocacy related to Canada’s national Early Learning and Child Care system.Read more
Gender Equality programs, with regard to women's leadership and support to feminist movements in Canada.
Advocacy on Canada’s international policies and programs related to immigration, refugees, and humanitarian response, ensuring gender-responsive approaches that uphold human rights and protection for displaced women, girls, and marginalized communities.
Women's Housing and Homelessness, ensuring a gender equity lens in federal housing policy and affordable housing investments, and the renewal of funding for housing dedicated to women.Read more
Investments in Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care, rollout of childcare agreements across Canada.
Advancing policies, programs and investments in gender-based violence prevention and intervention, including the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.
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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