Registry of Lobbyists

Registration - In-house Organization

Public Service Alliance of Canada / Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada / Chris Aylward, National President

Registration Information

In-house Organization name: Public Service Alliance of Canada / Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada
Previous in-house organization names
Responsible Officer Name: Chris Aylward, National President 
Responsible Officer Change History
Initial registration start date: 2007-02-09
Registration status: Active
Registration Number: 943416-14827

Associated Communications

Total Number of Communication Reports: 112

Monthly communication reports in the last 6 months: 26

Version 3 of 72 (2008-03-17 to 2008-08-14)

Version 3 of 72 (2008-03-17 to 2008-08-14) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.

A. Organization Information

Organization: Public Service Alliance of Canada
233 Gilmour Street
Ottawa, ON  K2P 0P1
Canada
Telephone number: 613-560-4330
Fax number: 613-567-0385  
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: John Gordon, National President  
 
Description of the organization's activities: The PSAC aims to unite all workers within its area of jurisdiction into a single organization in order to obtain the best standards of compensation and other conditions of employment for its members and to protect and enhance the rights and interests of all workers.
Organization's membership or classes of membership: The PSAC is Canada's largest federal public sector union. In addition to representing federal public sector workers, the PSAC represents workers employed in many other areas including: territorial and municipalities in the North; universities; airports; museums; and, diamond mines.
 
Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? No
 

B. Lobbyists Employed by the Organization

Name: Maggie Armstrong
Position title: Regional representative (Calgary)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Jeannie Baldwin
Position title: Regional Executive Vice-President, Atlantic
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Robyn Benson
Position title: Regional Executive Vice-President, Prairies
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Regina Brennan
Position title: Regional representative (Vancouver)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Sarah Bélanger
Position title: Executive assistant, Ottawa
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Bruce Campbell
Position title: Regional representative (Winnipeg)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Arthur Carkner
Position title: Regional Representative (Ottawa)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Oneil Carlier
Position title: Regional representative (Edmonton)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Edward Cashman
Position title: Regional Executive Vice- President, National Capital Region
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Patricia Anne Davis
Position title: Regional Coordinator (Winnipeg)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Jean-François Des Lauriers
Position title: Regional Executive Vice-President, North
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Patty Ducharme
Position title: National Executive Vice-President
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Wesney Duclervil
Position title: Term Assistant Regional Office, Montréal
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Barb Fayant
Position title: administrative assistant (Regina Regional Office)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Lisa Garnier
Position title: Regional representative (Regina)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Anna Goguen
Position title: Regional Representative (Moncton)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: John Gordon
Position title: President
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Luc Guevremont
Position title: Regional representative (Vancouver
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Raj Hari
Position title: Regional representative (Calgary)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Fraser Hiscock
Position title: Regional Representative (Gander Regional Office)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Dave Jackson
Position title: Regional representative (Victoria)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Ghislaine Jalbert
Position title: Adjointe administrative
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Alain Lachapelle
Position title: Alternate Regional Executive Vice-president, Montréal
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Monique Laplante
Position title: Regional representative (Moncton)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Bertrand Lavoie
Position title: Regional representative (Montréal)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Pierre Lebel
Position title: Représentant régional (Gatineau)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: James Little
Position title: Regional representative (Vancouver)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Debbie McLaughlin
Position title: Regional Representative (Halifax)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Cathy Murphy
Position title: Regional Coordinator (Atlantic)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Normand Pelletier
Position title: Représentant régional, Québec
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Jacques Roy
Position title: Regional representative (Québec)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Colette Savarie
Position title: Regional representative (Saskatoon)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Kay Sinclair
Position title: Regional Executive Vice-President, BC
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Tracy Thor
Position title: Regional representative, Winnipeg
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Jérôme Turcq
Position title: Regional Executive Vice-President, Québec
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Monica Urrutia
Position title: Regional representative (Vancouver)
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Larry Welsh
Position title: Regional Representative, Nfld
Public offices held: Yes
 
Name: Gayla Denise Wick
Position title: First Vice-President (Union of Northern Workers, Yellowknife)
Public offices held: Yes
 

C. Lobbying Activity Information

Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB), Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Members of the House of Commons, Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC), Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB), Public Service Staff Relations Board (PSSRB), Public Works and Government Services Canada, Senate of Canada, Status of Women, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
Grass-roots communication, Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format
 
Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: Constitutional Issues, Employment and Training, Environment, Fisheries, Government Procurement, Health, international mail, Labour, Taxation and Finance, Telecommunications
 
Subject Matter: Retrospective: The Public Service Labour Relations Act and the Public Service Labour Relations Board; Canada Labour Code and the Canada Labour Relations Board; Public Service Employment Act and the Public Service Commission; Public Service Modernization Act; Public Service Superannuation Act; Federal budgets and main estimates; expenditure restraint; child care; health care; Status of Women; pay equity and pay equity laws; human rights, same sex marriage; the gun registry; Canada Post Corporation Act.
Subject Matter: Prospective: In addition to the legislation and programs outlined above, public pensions and pharmacare, training and retraining and environmental issues - underfunding at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and its impact on habitat management, fishery science, enforcement as well as international mail..
 

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Categories Description
Bill or Resolution Anti-Terrorism Act 2001, c. 41.
Policy or Program Ban Asbestos Canada
Bill or Resolution Bill 236 and 295 both Acts to amend the Canada Labour Code, replacement workers.
Bill or Resolution Bill C-14, an Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act
Bill or Resolution Bill C-14, an Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act
Bill or Resolution Bill C-21, an Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act.
Bill or Resolution Bill C-39, an Act to amend the Canada Grain Act
Bill or Resolution Bill C-484 - Unborn Victims of Crime Act.
Bill or Resolution Bill C-62, an Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada
Policy or Program Child care
Policy or Program Child Care funding arrangements.
Policy or Program Environmental issues - underfunding at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and its impact on habitat management, fishery science and enforcement.
Policy or Program Expenditure cutbacks within Status of Women Canada as announced by the President of the Treasury Board in November 2006 and confirmed in the 2007-2008 main estimates.
Policy or Program Expenditure restraint
Policy or Program Federal budgets and main estimates
Policy or Program Health care
Policy or Program Human rights, same sex marriage
Policy or Program Pay equity and pay equity laws
Policy or Program Public pensions and pharmacare
Policy or Program Public-private partnerships
Legislative Proposal Public Service Employment Act and the Public Service Commission
Policy or Program Public Service Labour Relations Board - appointments.
Legislative Proposal Public Service Modernization Act
Legislative Proposal Public Service Superannuation Act
Policy or Program Sale of government buildings
Policy or Program Status of Women
Policy or Program The Expenditure Review of Federal Public Sector - Volume One - the Analytical Report and Recommendations (Lahey Report).
Policy or Program The gun registry
Legislative Proposal The Public Service Labour Relations Act
Policy or Program Training and retraining
Policy or Program Use of temporary help agencies




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