Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Agriculture
- Budget
- Climate
- Economic Development
- Education
- Employment and Training
- Energy
- Environment
- Financial Institutions
- Fisheries
- Forestry
- Health
- Immigration
- Infrastructure
- International Trade
- Pensions
- Regional Development
- Science and Technology
- Small Business
- Taxation and Finance
- Tourism
- Transportation
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- -Seeking funding opportunities for The Existence Project – Community based workshops connecting community through storytelling
-Communications with MPs regarding the status of 2019 Canada Summer Jobs funding applications
- Connected Communities Work: A Model for Poverty Reduction and Community Development. Seeking to include support Connected Communities Work in federal infrastructure budget.
- Funding application to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada under the Call for Proposals 2019: Settlement and Resettlement Assistance Program.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Amending the Canada Water Act to reflect contemporary environmental concerns
- Reforms to the Export Development Act to prohibit Export Development Canada from providing support to the oil and gas sector.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- COVID-19 blue-green economic recovery: advocating for COVID-19 responses that promotes natural infrastructure and water stimulus. Advocating for a recovery plan that retains or enhances existing environmental laws. Advocating for stimulus funding that enhances environmental conservation, with additional benefits to human well being.
- Canada Water Act: Exploring potential for renewal of legislation to strengthen federal role in fresh water management.
- Fisheries Act: Seeking strengthening of habitat protections, incorporation of sustainability principles, and legal obligations to rebuild depleted fish stocks.
- Navigation Protection Act - Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Navigation Protection Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Transportation.
- Navigation Protection Act: Seeking a return to protections for all navigable waters.
- Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Fisheries Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Advocate for reforms to the charity sector through changes to the Income Tax Act and CRA regulations
Policies or Program
- -Updating Canada’s Federal Water Policy of 1987 to better support how fresh water is governed and how the health of Canada’s freshwater ecosystems can be improved.
-The benefits of updating the Canada Water Actof 1970 to support freshwater health across Canadaand the federal government’s role in supporting healthy fresh water across the country.
-Including priorities identified by the Our Living Waters Network in the formation of the Canada Water Agency-which is referred to in the mandate letter issued to the Minister of Environment and
Climate Change Canadaby the Prime Minister.
- Advocating establishment of a Canada Water Agency
- Discussing engaging pension fund beneficiaries and supporting pension fund managers to be a part of the transition to a low-carbon economy to achieve the inextricably linked goals of pension wealth and planet health. Sharing research and discussing new laws and programs that various states and governments have been passing related to this area.
- Federal budget commitments to match the Province of BC's $27million investment in watersheds as part of their economic recovery plan and a Federal government investment in a BC Watershed Security Fund.
- Infrastructure investment to improve water quality; Offer feedback and ideas on how infrastructure investment could improve water quality
- Nature-based solutions to build back better: 1) Renewing Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Funding program and reserving 25% of funding for "Green Infrastructure" projects, and 2) Instituting a new dedicated Natural Infrastructure Fund that would invest $500 million over the next five years the development, implementation and evaluation of natural infrastructure projects across the country.
- Pan Canadian national water quality strategy; Explore concept and how to set up pan Canadian water strategy
- Policies related to the integration of water health into food and agricultural policy, including but not limited to the development of a new Food Policy Framework for Canada.
- Policies related to the reduction of phosphorous in Canadian lakes, including but not limited to the Lake Erie Phosphorus Reduction Plan.
- o Discussing financial investment by the federal government through economic stimulus in watershed projects in British Columbia as opportunity for economic recovery and employment generation
Regulation
- Health Canada's development of new regulatory guidance on novel foods and "Consultation: Proposed new guidance for Novel Food Regulations focused on plant breeding" regarding safety assessments for genetically engineered foods
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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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
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Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
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Parks Canada (PC)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Senate of Canada
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Transport Canada (TC)
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
MakeWay Charitable Society's mission is to provide uncommon solutions for the common good by helping Canadians secure a healthy environment in ways that promote social equity and economic prosperity. We advance our mission by creating opportunities to pool ideas and resources to solve complex environmental and social problems; and by connecting and empowering a wide range of people and initiatives across the country to take on tough social and environmental challenges.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
Joanna Kerr,
CEO & President
Organization's membership or classes of membership
Membership of MakeWay Charitable Society consists of its Board members.
Government funding
End date of the last completed financial year:
2020-03-31
List of Government Funding
Government Institution
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Funding Received in Last Financial Year
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Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
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$16,000.00
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Yes
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Canada Council for the Arts
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$56,417.00
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Yes
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Canadian Heritage (PCH)
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$66,500.00
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No
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
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$115,000.00
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Yes
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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$180,033.00
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Yes
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
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$79,632.00
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Yes
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
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$180,629.95
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Yes
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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
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$0.00
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Yes
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Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
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$194,214.00
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Yes
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
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$704,201.50
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Yes
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In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
400-163 W Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H5
Canada
Telephone number:
647-417-1727
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- Zita Botelho,
Program Director |
No public offices held
- Marko Curuvija,
Project Director, The Existence Project |
No public offices held
- Richard Farthing-Nichol,
Coordinator, FLOW |
No public offices held
- Anne Gloger,
Principal |
No public offices held
- Karen Hamilton,
Program Officer |
No public offices held
- Joanna Kerr,
CEO & President |
No public offices held
- Christine Mettler,
Project Co-Director |
No public offices held
- Tim Moriss,
Project Director |
No public offices held
- Lucy Sharratt,
Project Director |
No public offices held
- Nikki Skuce,
Director |
No public offices held
- Andrew Stegemann,
Project Director, Our Living Waters |
No public offices held
- Coree Tull,
Project Co-Director |
No public offices held