Enregistrement - Lobbyistes-conseils

Objets

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

Détails sur l'objet

Politique ou Programme

• 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 - Pipelines safer mode of transportation than rail. National Energy Board (NEB) Participant Fund. NEB Modernization Review report.
• Infrastructure funding; ensuring eligibility requirements and thresholds allow rural municipalities to access infrastructure funding.
• 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.
• 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.
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) presence in rural Saskatchewan. Preventing rural crime.
• 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.
• 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.

Techniques de communication

• Communication écrite
• Communication orale

Institutions gouvernementales

• Affaires autochtones et du Nord Canada
• Agence canadienne d'évaluation environnementale (ACÉE)
• Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments (ACIA)
• Agence du revenu du Canada (ARC)
• Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada (AAC)
• Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada (BST)
• Cabinet du Premier ministre (CPM)
• Chambre des communes
• Commission canadienne des grains (CCG)
• Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC)
• Diversification de l'économie de l'Ouest Canada (DEO)
• Élections Canada
• Environnement et Changement climatique Canada (ECCC)
• Finances Canada (FIN)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Office national des transports (ONT)
• Pêches et Océans Canada (MPO)
• PPP Canada
• Relations Couronne-Autochtones et Affaires du Nord Canada (RCAANC)
• Ressources naturelles Canada (RNCan)
• Santé Canada (SC)
• Secrétariat de l'ALÉNA
• Sécurité publique Canada (SP)
• Sénat du Canada
• Services aux Autochtones Canada (SAC)
• Statistique Canada (StatCan)
• 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

Renseignements sur la société mère

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities n'est pas une filiale d'une société mère.