Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Agriculture
- Animal Welfare
- CHEESE
- Climate Change
- Consumer Issues
- DAIRY PRODUCT REGULATIONS
- DAIRY PRODUCTS REGULATIONS
- Dairy Products Standards
- DAIRY PRODUCTS STANDARDS
- Discretionary Food Fortification
- Environment
- Federal-Provincial Relations
- Growing Forward
- Health
- Industry
- Internal Trade
- International Relations
- International Trade
- LABELLING
- Research
- Science and Technology
- Supply management
Subject matters added through a monthly communication report
Subject Matter Details
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Agreement on Internal Trade - Review of Chapter 9
- Implementation of Special Agricultural Safeguard for supply-managed products, dairy products in particular.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- Implementation of new tariff rate quotas for milk protein isolates as per GATT Article XXVIII, Amendment to Customs Tariff (tariff line 3504). Work with Finance Canada, AAFC and DFAIT on implementation and allocation of said TRQ.
Policies or Program
- Animal Health - development of the National Farmed Animal Health Strategy with CFIA; development of the Code of Practice for the Care and handling of Dairy Cattle in cooperation with CFIA's activities in OIE
- Discretionary Food Fortification policy of Health Canada. DFC has particular interest in the discretionary food fortification of non-nutritious foods and vitamin fortification of dairy products
- Explicit and implied Health Claims related to dairy and non-dairy products
- Quality Milk Program - Implementation and administration of the Quality Milk Program under the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program of AAFC.
- Trans fats / Sodium as it relates to dairy products, Food Guide recommendations and nutritional labelling.
- Use of Veterinary Natural Health Products in dairy livestock production - Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada
- WTO Negotiations on Agriculture as it relates to supply management.
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Guide for Food labelling and Advertising in respect of all dairy products and use of dairy terminology (modifiers, highlighted ingredients)
Regulation
- Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for cheese;
Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for yogourt
Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for ice cream
- Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as they apply to all dairy product compositional standards, in particular those on cheese and yogourt;
Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as it applies to the labelling and grading of dairy products
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
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Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
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Canadian Border Services Agency
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Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC)
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
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Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
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Environment Canada
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Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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NSERC
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Privy Council Office (PCO)
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Revenue Canada (RC)
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Senate of Canada
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Statistics Canada (StatCan)
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is the national lobby, policy and promotion organization representing all dairy producers in Canada. The main objective of DFC is to promote the interests of producers by coordinationg the actions of dairy producer organizations on all issues of national scope and collaborating with relevant agencies in the elboration of national policies affecting the Canadian dairy industry. The promotional objective is to increase the sale sof dairy products to the financial benefit of producers and the health benefit of consumers.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
RICHARD DOYLE,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Organization's membership or classes of membership
DFC represents all Canadian milk producers through its 12 provincial member organizations and the Canadian Dairy Network.
Government funding
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
21 Florence St.
Ottawa, ON K2P 0W6
Canada
Telephone number:
613-236-9997
Fax number:
613-236-0905
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- THERESE BEAULIEU,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS |
No public offices held
- REJEAN BOUCHARD,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DAIRY PRODUCTION |
Public offices held
- STEVE COUTURE,
DIRECTOR, POLICY & ECONOMICS |
No public offices held
- RICHARD DOYLE,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
No public offices held
- JOANNE GALLAGHER,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, NUTRITION |
No public offices held
- ELIZABETH JARVIS,
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR |
Public offices held
- YVES LEDUC ,
DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL TRADE |
No public offices held
- IAN MACDONALD,
NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND NUTRITION |
No public offices held
- ROSEMARY MACLELLAN,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS |
Public offices held
- MARGHERITA MARCONE,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, POLICY AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS |
No public offices held
- ISABELLE NEIDERER,
DIRECTOR, NUTRITION |
No public offices held
- CLAIRE PAYETTE,
DIRECTOR, PRODUCT GROUP |
No public offices held
- GREGORY (RICK) PHILLIPS,
DIRECTOR, POLICY AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS |
No public offices held
- RICHARD SANCHEZ,
DIRECTOR, POLICY & ECONOMICS |
No public offices held
- NATHALIE SAVOIE,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, NUTRITION |
No public offices held
- ROBERT STULTZ,
DIRECTOR, MARKETING |
No public offices held
