Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Budget
- Child Services
- Climate
- Environment
- Health
- Housing
- Taxation and Finance
Subject Matter Details
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Advancing recommendations to hold climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This includes meeting Canada's climate targets and commitments.
- Advocate that the federal government include an accurate and meaningful assessment of spending by age in the federal budget.
- Advocating for a review of existing taxation schemes to identify opportunities to create more affordable housing for Canadians.
- Advocating that the Government of Canada commit to comprehensive carbon budgets.
- Advocating that the Government of Canada develop budgets that work for all generations. This would include assigning a point-person for intergenerational fairness in budgeting processes.
- Advocating that the federal budget report on the ratio between spending on medical care versus spending on social investments.
- Encourage the Government of Canada to align the mandates of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
- Work towards ensuring all Canadians can afford a good home by 2030. This includes stalling home prices to ensure that local earnings can catch up.
Policies or Program
- Advocate that the increasing minimum and maximum parental leave benefit amounts.
- Advocating for policy recommendations that ensure all Canadians can afford enough time at home and enough time at work when they start their families. This includes supporting investments in a national childcare system.
- Advocating that the Government of Canada make it less costly for businesses to use employees up to an average of 35 hours per week each year and more costly for hours thereafter.
- Encourage the federal government to rethink the role of real estate in economic growth, including by developing a plan to increase housing supply.
- Encouraging the Government of Canada to be more transparent with Canadians about how longer lives affect our assumptions about retirement security programs.
- Recommend that the Government of Canada restructure parental leave time.
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
The lobbyist has arranged or expects to arrange one or more meetings on behalf of the client between a public office holder and any other person in the course of this undertaking.
Government Institutions
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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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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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Client Details
Government funding
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
Client Contact Information
Address:
17280 Ford Road
Vancouver, BC V3Y 0A6
Canada
Telephone number:
604-761-4583
Client representative
Paul Kershaw, Founder
Parent Company Information
Generation Squeeze is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.
Coalition Members Information
Generation Squeeze is not a coalition.
Individual, organization or corporation with a Direct Interest Beneficiary Information
The activities of Generation Squeeze are not controlled or directed by another individual, organization or corporation with a direct interest in the outcome of this undertaking.
Subsidiary Beneficiary Information
Generation Squeeze does not have any subsidiaries that could have a direct interest in the outcome of the undertaking
Lobbyist Details
HUW WILLIAMS
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Public offices held
Business address:
222 Queen Street, Suite 1404
300
OTTAWA, ON K1P 5V9
Canada
Telephone number:
613-233-8906
Consultant Firm and Address
Firm:
IMPACT PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Address:
222 Queen Street, Suite 1404
OTTAWA, ON K1P 5V9
Canada
Telephone number:
613-233-8906
Fax number:
613-230-2669
