Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Broadcasting
• Consumer Issues
• Government Procurement
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Intellectual Property
• Labour
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• • Bills related to lawful access obligations that will have a direct impact on the Company from a financial and operational perspective, as well as impact on TELUS customers from a privacy perspective, and with respect to obligations imposed on carriers with respect to intercept and subscriber information.
• • Potential Amendments to the Broadcasting Act, with respect to streamlining regulation of broadcasting industry.
• • Proposing amendments pursuant to Income Tax Act concerning Capital Cost Allowance deductions.
• • Review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) as relates to communications service providers’ obligations

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

• • Critical infrastructure and cyber security - protection of facilities, networks, technology, assets and systems.

Policies or Program

• • Broadband Canada - Connecting Rural Canadians program which is of interest to TELUS.
• • Broadcasting Policies Relating to Conventional Television
• • Broadcasting Policies Relating to Specialty Television
• • Policy Framework with regard to the terms and conditions of auction for Spectrum Licences
• • Proposed Digital Economy Strategy with respect to spectrum policy.
• • 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.
• • Spectrum policy framework as related to incumbent wireless carriers with respect to all technological and financial implications of proposed government policies.

Regulation

• • Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission review of Basic Telecommunications Services
• • Copyright regulations and the Copyright Modernization Act with respect to the scheduled five year review.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication

The lobbyist has arranged or expects to arrange one or more meetings on behalf of the client between a public office holder and any other person in the course of this undertaking.

Government Institutions

• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Competition Bureau Canada (COBU)
• Copyright Board of Canada (CB)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Defence (DND)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
• Senate of Canada
• Status of Women Canada (SWC)
• Transport Canada (TC)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)

Address:
555 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC  V6B 3K9
Canada

Telephone number: 613-593-8344

Client representative

Johanne Senecal, Senior Vice-President Federal Government and Regulatory Affairs

Parent Company Information

TELUS Corporation is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.

Business address:
Suite 1115,
50 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, ON  K1P 6L2
Canada

Telephone number: 613-238-4371