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
  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
  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
  Foreign Affairs, International Relations	Advocating for the appointment of a Special Envoy to monitor and advocate for the rights of Palestinian children under occupation.	Policies or Program
  Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Trade	Advocating for the review of Canada-Israel bilateral agreements to make sure that these do not contribute to violations of international humanitarian or human rights law.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Trade	Advocating for the suspension of arms sales to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, and for proper adherence to the terms of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Including closing the US loophole in the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA) and reforming the CAN-US Defense Production Sharing Agreement.	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 Development, International Relations	Canada’s record and reputation at the United Nations General Assembly – encouraging the principled support for all resolutions which aim to uphold human rights in the Middle East.	Policies or Program
  Foreign Affairs, International Relations	Canadian policy supporting a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
  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
  Defence, Foreign Affairs, Government Procurement, International Relations, International Trade	Demanding Canada implement a two-way arms embargo between Canada and Israel using the Special Economic Measures Act.	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 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
  Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement	Encouraging meaningful engagement with the analysis and recommendations of human rights organizations on the ground in Palestine-Israel, including support for the legal analysis of crimes of apartheid as defined by international law.	Policies or Program
  International Relations	Encouraging participation in the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Promote Palestinian Human Rights. The Task Force brings together legislators from North America and Europe to discuss initiatives to promote human rights in the region.	Policies or Program
  International Development, International Relations	Encouraging strengthened support for Palestinian civil society, and clear opposition to Israel’s terrorism designations which unjustly criminalize civil society organizations in occupied territory.	Policies or Program
  Defence, Government Procurement, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, National Security/Security	Ensuring that Canada has proper human rights screening in our Public and Government procurement processes. Pushing Canada to ban 'battle-tested" goods from Israel.	Policies or Program, Regulation
  International Relations, Justice and Law Enforcement, National Security/Security	Urging government attention to address all forms of racism and discrimination, including systemic racism against Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians within Canada and the Middle East.	Policies or Program

  Subject matters added through a communication report:

  • Defence
  • Federal-Provincial Relations
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Immigration
  • International Development
  • International Relations
  • International Trade
  • Justice and Law Enforcement
  • Municipalities
  • National Security/Security
  • Pensions
  • Taxation and Finance

Government Institutions

• Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
• Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
• Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)
• Export Development Canada (EDC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• House of Commons
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Defence (DND)
• National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat
• 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)

• Government institutions in previous versions

  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
  • Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC)
  • Canadian Heritage (PCH)
  • Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
  • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
  • Transport Canada (TC)
  • Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)
  • Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

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, 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

• Lobbyists in previous versions

  • Thomas Woodley, President | No public offices held
  • Michael Bueckert, Vice President | No public offices held