Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Agriculture
- Consumer Issues
- Employment and Training
- Health
- Housing
- Labour
- Municipalities
- Pensions
- Taxation and Finance
Subject Matter Details
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Advocate for policies to address the financialization of housing
- Call for implementation of Canada Disability Benefit as Federal Income Supplement
- Securing formal recognition that food is a human right in domestic policy
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
- Reforms to Employment Insurance (EI) to enable low-wage, temporary, casual, and/or contract workers to have access to EI benefits
Policies or Program
- Advocating for the realization of the right to housing, including increasing the supply of, and access to, affordable housing for low-income Canadians.
- Calls for a National School Lunch Program
- Conversion of non-refundable credits that benefit low-income Canadians to refundable tax credits
- Creation of financial benefits (e.g. refundable tax credits) for single adults with low incomes
- Enhancing the frequency of national data collection on food insecurity and establishment of targets for reducing food insecurity as part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Ensuring all low-income Canadians have access to the Canada Child Benefit and that rates are indexed to inflation
- Ensuring all low-income seniors have access to Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement and that these benefits are increased to reflect the cost of living
- Establishment of national Pharmacare and Dental Care programs
- Expansion of national child care and early learning program that is accessible to low-income families
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Ease filing of taxes for people living in poverty
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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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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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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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Privy Council Office (PCO)
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Senate of Canada
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Client Details
Government funding
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
Client Contact Information
Address:
191 New Toronto Street
Toronto, ON M8V 2E7
Canada
Telephone number:
416-203-0050
Web address:
https://www.dailybread.ca/
Client representative
Talia Bronstein, Vice President, Research and Advocacy
Parent Company Information
Daily Bread Food Bank is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.
Coalition Members Information
Daily Bread Food Bank is not a coalition.
Individual, organization or corporation with a Direct Interest Beneficiary Information
The activities of Daily Bread Food Bank are not controlled or directed by another individual, organization or corporation with a direct interest in the outcome of this undertaking.
Subsidiary Beneficiary Information
Daily Bread Food Bank does not have any subsidiaries that could have a direct interest in the outcome of the undertaking
Lobbyist Details
Devin McCarthy
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Public offices held
Business address:
340 Albert Street
Suite 1650
Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y6
Canada
Telephone number:
613-864-0263
Consultant Firm and Address
Firm:
Sussex Strategy Group
Address:
340 Albert Street
Suite 1650
Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y6
Canada
Telephone number:
613-864-0263