Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Agriculture
• Bilingualism/Official Languages
• Broadcasting
• Budget
• Climate
• Economic Development
• Elections
• Energy
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Fisheries
• Forestry
• Government Procurement
• Health
• Housing
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Development
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Labour
• Mining
• Municipalities
• National Security/Security
• Natural Resources
• Regional Development
• Science and Technology
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Tourism
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• • Federal infrastructure program funding, including (but not limited to) infrastructure Canada: Seeking government funding through Infrastructure Canada, the Building Canada Fund, gas tax transfer, Goods and Services Tax municipal rebate and the economic developments agencies and programs for municipal infrastructure development.

Policies or Program

• Environmental issues and sustainable development: Environmental and sustainable development policies and programs with regard to local climate change mitigation and adaptation, the development and implementation of water management, watershed planning, wastewater, stormwater policy and accomplying federal funding, brownfield redevelopment, greenhouse gas (ghg) reductions, urban forest management and stewardship, capacity building for sustainable community planning and federal government involvement in sustainable community development.
• International municipal development: Canadian foreign policy with regard to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funded programs overseas in various countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Caribean and Middle East, providing technical assistance to local governments and national associations of local government.
• Municipal-aboriginal relations issues: Federal policies and programs with regard to municipal-aboriginal relations, resources to meet the needs of the aboriginal population living in municipalities, municipal consultation and communication regarding land management and additions to reserve.
• Rail, Airports and Ports: Federal policies and programs with regard to access to national and international markets for trade, intra-city movement of people and goods and sustainability of small and rural communities
• Rural, remote and northern municipal issues: Federal policies and programs with regard to delivering infrastructure funding in rural, remote and northern communities, trade irritants effecting rural, remote and northern communities, the development and implementation of the northern strategy in the three territories and the development of a rural champion at the federal cabinet level.
• • Buy America provision of the US government's federal stimulus package: Canadian policy with regard to the Buy America provision of the US government's federal stimulus package.
• • Rural Development and execution of federal policies and programs designed to ensure that rural, remote and northern municipalities and communities are able to a) access federal programs, b) strengthen local economic development c) provide residents with access to services d) work with local partners to develop locally appropriate solutions.
• • Citizenship and immigration: Immigration and refugee policies and programs with regard to federal & local programs supporting language training, skills development, foreign credential recognition, settlement services, access to affordable housing, access to affordable transit, and career and employment services.
• • Community safety and crime prevention: Community-based crime prevention policies and programs with regard to crime prevention through social development, community corrections, national/contract policing, and national and municipal drug strategies. Federal and municipal roles and responsibilities regarding policing duties and funding.
• • Emergency preparedness and security measures: Emergency preparedness policies and programs with regard to the cost and implementation of emergency equipment and first responder support.
• • Federal Programs Supporting Social Development: Federal policies and programs with regard to improving accesses to affordable housing, reducing homelessness, increasing social infrastructure required for immigration and refugee settlement and integration support.
• • Guidelines for urban transit, intra and extra urban transit systems: Infrastructure and Transportation policy with regard to the development of guidelines, policy and dedicated funding for urban, intra and extra urban transit systems, intra-modular transportation integration, municipal/railway proximity issues, shipping routes and sea ports, boarder crossings, highways, and provincial or federal owned roadways
• • Municipal Finance and Intergovernmental Arrangements Revenue sharing with the federal and provincial governments: Federal policies and programs with regard to the payments in lieu of taxes (PILTs) system, intergovernmental partnerships, recognition of municipal governments contributions to economic growth, the fiscal imbalance between each order of governments revenues options and their responsibilities to provide services and programs to Canadians.
• • Telecommunications and Technology: Telecommunications policies with regard to universal broadband access throughout Canadian communities, antenna tower and municipal rights-of-ways.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
• Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Defence (DND)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Pension Appeals Board (PAB)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office)
• Senate of Canada
• Service Canada (ServCan)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Transport Canada (TC)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)
• Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

Address:
24 Clarence Street
Ottawa, ON  K1G 5P3
Canada

Telephone number: 709-315-4394
Web address: fcm.ca

Client representative

Tyler Downey, Government Relations Coordinator

Parent Company Information

Federation of Canadian Municipalities / Fédération Canadienne des Municipalitiés is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.