Enregistrement - Lobbyistes-conseils

Objets

• Affaires autochtones
• Agriculture
• Budget
• Climat
• Commerce international
• Emploi et formation
• Énergie
• Environnement
• Impôts et finances
• Industrie
• Infrastructure
• Justice et application des lois
• Municipalités
• Pêches
• Santé
• Télécommunications
• Transports

Détails sur l'objet

Politique ou Programme

• Agriculture and transportation with respect to the humane transportation of livestock.
• Agriculture: Free Trade Agreements - continued need for access to international markets / Growing Forward 2 - continued need for support programs
• Agriculture: Business Risk Management Program Suite under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership - In particular requesting changes to the AgriStability Program to provide enhanced support for producers.
• Broadband - requesting government investment to enhance services in rural Saskatchewan. “Use it or lose it” provisions in spectrum allocation and unused spectrum.
• Canadian Agriculture Partnership; ensuring that it serves to maintain and increase the competitiveness of the agricultural sector.
• Chronic wasting disease; policies to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.
• Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA); with respect to increasing the compensation for use of municipally owned equipment
• Emergency response fund; the establishment of an emergency response fund will give fire departments the resources they need to continue providing essential services without risk of non-payment.
• Energy Infrastructure - Advance the notion that pipelines safer mode of transportation than rail to the Canadian Energy Regulator.
• Infrastructure funding; ensuring eligibility requirements and thresholds allow rural municipalities to access infrastructure funding.
• International trade with respect to Canola exports.
• Municipal access to Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant.
• Mutual aid agreements; formalizing mutual aid agreements is important because RMs need assurance that they will be reimbursed for providing emergency services to neighbouring municipalities and First Nations.
• National Disaster Mitigation Program; to ensure mitigation projects and strategically and effectively undertaken.
• New Building Canada Fund; eligibility requirements and thresholds.
• Provide comments on the need for improvements to the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program.
• RCMP presence in rural Saskatchewan. Preventing rural crime.
• Rail Safety; Transporting dangerous goods by rail. Grade crossing improvements.
• Requesting federal government lead the fight to prevent spread of aquatic invasive species throughout Canada and Saskatchewan’s waters.
• Requests to maintain a Gas Tax Fund and to reduce related administrative requirements for RMs.
• Telecommunications: Spectrum Licenses for Mobile Broadband Servcice - essential need for Broadband access in rural Canada
• The Rural Municipal (RM) Tax Loss Compensation Trust Fund tied to Treaty Land Entitlement agreements continues to decrease and appears to be unsustainable without municipalities absorbing significant reduction in monies from the fund.
• Water treatment systems; alternative water treatment technologies continue to be explored and, where feasible, applicable regulations and guidelines be updated to allow for the most efficient use of those technologies.

Proposition législative, Projet de loi ou résolution

• Actively lobbied and supported the federal governments efforts to resolve the trade issues regarding Country of Origin Labelling (COOL).
• Cannabis Act and regulations; mitigating potential risks to municipalities resulting from legalization.
• Carbon tax; impact of carbon tax on Saskatchewan’s agricultural producers and municipalities.
• Fisheries Act; ensure it effectively balances the need for habitat protection with the need for municipal infrastructure development.
• Navigation Protection Act; placed administrative and financial burdens on municipal infrastructure projects. SARM is concerned that the 2012 amendments will be reversed.
• Participating in consultations on reducing violent crime consultations and position against bringing in a long gun registry.
• Rural Crime with respect to amending acts and regulation in relation to firearms.
• Species at Risk Act (SARA); mitigating negative effects of SARA.
• Trade Agreements; including Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), our request is to better international trade for agriculture producers.
• Transportation Modernization Act; SARM participating in consultation to promote efficient and effective grain transportation.

Subvention, Contribution ou autre avantage financier

• Infrastructure: ongoing need for financial support for municipal infrastructure through the New Building Canada Fund and Gas Tax Program
• Need for additional funding programs for rural infrastructure.

Techniques de communication

• Communication écrite
• Communication orale

Institutions gouvernementales

• Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada (AAC)
• Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada (BST)
• Cabinet du Premier ministre (CPM)
• Chambre des communes
• Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC)
• Diversification de l'économie de l'Ouest Canada (DEO)
• Environnement et Changement climatique Canada (ECCC)
• Finances Canada (FIN)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada (ISDE)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Office national des transports (ONT)
• Pêches et Océans Canada (MPO)
• PPP Canada
• Régie de l’énergie du Canada (REC)
• Ressources naturelles Canada (RNCan)
• Santé Canada (SC)
• Secrétariat de l'ALÉNA
• Sécurité publique Canada (SP)
• Sénat du Canada
• Services aux Autochtones Canada (SAC)
• Transports Canada (TC)

Adresse :
2301 Windsor Park Road
Regina, SK  S4V 3A4
Canada

Numéro de téléphone : 306-757-3577

Représentant du client

Jay Meyer, Executive Director

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