12-Month Lobbying Summary - In-house Organization

• Subject matter details in previous versions

  Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

  Subject matters	Details	Categories
  Immigration, Justice and Law Enforcement, National Security/Security	Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
  Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development, International Relations	Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO. For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.	Policies or Program
  Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Trade	Advocating for Canada to end arms transfers to third party states through the US Loophole in EIPA. Reform Canada's arms control regime to be better compliant with the Arms Trade treaty. Vote for Private Member's Bill C-233 An Act to Amend the Export and Import Permits Act.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
  International Trade	Advocating for Canada to end arms transfers to third party states through the US. Reform Canada's arms control regime to be better compliant with the Arms Trade treaty.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
  Defence, International Relations, International Trade	Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
  Budget, International Development, International Relations	Advocating for increases to all development assistance in support of Palestine and in particular increased funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
  International Relations, Justice and Law Enforcement	Advocating repeal of the federal government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.	Policies or Program
  Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Trade	Advocating that Canada impose crippling economic sanctions under SEMA on Israel to compel it to full comply with international law as described in the ICJ advisory opinions of 2005 & 2024 and the provisional measures to end the illegal occupation and prevent genocide.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Immigration, National Security/Security	Changing the way the government applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure Canada's migration regime is not engaging in systemic anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia. Pushing for reforms to the act to ensure it is consistent with international law and human rights. Ensuring Canada's migration streams are not based on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
  Federal-Provincial Relations, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Municipalities, Pensions, Taxation and Finance	Encouraging a whole-of-government approach to ending Canadian complicity in Israeli settlements. Ensuring Canada enforces its war crimes legislation. Stopping Canadian participation in the settlement economy through legislative and regulatory options to stop the import of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory and the end to real estate sales in Israeli settlements. Furthering the use of Canada's sanctions regime against illegal Jewish-only settlements in the OPT.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
  Federal-Provincial Relations, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Municipalities, Pensions, Taxation and Finance	Encouraging a whole-of-government approach to ending Canadian complicity in Israeli settlements. Ensuring Canada enforces its war crimes legislation. Stopping Canadian participation in the settlement economy through legislative options to stop the import of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory and the end to real estate sales in Israeli settlements.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation

  Subject matters added through a communication report:

  • Defence
  • Foreign Affairs
  • International Relations
  • International Trade
  • Justice and Law Enforcement
  • National Security/Security

Government Institutions

• Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
• Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Export Development Canada (EDC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Leaders’ Debates Commission
• National Defence (DND)
• National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat
• Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada (OIC)
• Office of the Procurement Ombudsman (OPO)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians
• Senate of Canada
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

• Government institutions in previous versions

  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
  • Transport Canada (TC)
  • Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

Communication techniques

Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:

• Grass-roots communication
• Oral communication
• Written communication

• Michael Bueckert, Vice President | No public offices held
• Boutaïna Chafi, National Organizer | No public offices held
• Mary Ann Matta, Senior Director of Development | No public offices held
• Alex Paterson, Senior Director, Strategy & Parliamentary Affairs | Public offices held

• Lobbyists in previous versions

  • Michael Bueckert, Interim President | No public offices held
  • Mary Ann Matta, Assistant Director of Development | No public offices held
  • Saeed Naguib, Associate Director - Organizing and Grassroots Lobbying | No public offices held
  • Alex Paterson, Senior Director, Parliamentary Affairs | Public offices held