Registry of Lobbyists
Total Number of Communication Reports: 123
Monthly communication reports in the last 6 months: 0
Version 2 of 20 (2006-02-03 to 2007-04-04) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.
| Organization: |
Canada Foundation for Innovation / Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation
230 Queen Street Suite 450 Ottawa, ON K1P 5E4 Canada |
||||
| Telephone number: | 613-947-7260 | ||||
| Fax number: | 613-943-0227 | ||||
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO | ||||
| Description of the organization's activities: | The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians. | ||||
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | The CFI was established as an independent, non-governmental organization with a Board of Directors which meets three to four times a year. An annual public meeting is held each year and is widely publicized in several of Canada's leading newspapers. | ||||
| Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? | Yes | ||||
| End date of the organization's last completed financial year: | 2004-03-31 | ||||
|
|||||
| Name: | Carmen Charette |
| Position title: | Senior Vice-President |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Eliot Phillipson |
| Position title: | President & CEO |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: | Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB), Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB), Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), Canadian Pension Commission (CPC), Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Competition Tribunal (CT), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Environment Canada, Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC), Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office (FEARO), Federal Office of Regional Development – Quebec (FORD[Q]), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC), Grain Transportation Agency (GTA), Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (HMIRC), Health Canada (HC), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), Industry Canada, Justice Canada (JC), National Defence (DND), National Energy Board (NEB), National Film Board (NFB), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL), Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), Pension Appeals Board (PAB), Privy Council Office (PCO), Procurement Review Board of Canada (PRB), Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC), Public Service Staff Relations Board (PSSRB), Public Works and Government Services Canada, Revenue Canada (RC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Solicitor General Canada (SGC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) | ||||
|
Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
|
Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format | ||||
| Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: | Academic Research Infrastructure | ||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | As part of our commitment to the highest possible standard of public accountability and transparency in managing our public funds, we believe it is critical to inform officials about our organization, its activities and their impact on strengthening Canada's capacity to innovate.As such, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) meets with Government officials to provide them with an update on recent CFI funding initiatives and how those investments in leading-edge research will help to make Canada one of the most innovative countries in the world by 2010. | ||||
| Subject Matter: Prospective: | As part of our commitment to the highest possible standard of public accountability and transparency in managing our public funds, we believe it is critical to inform officials about our organization, its activities and their impact on strengthening Canada's capacity to innovate.As such, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) meets with Government officials to provide them with an update on recent CFI funding initiatives and how those investments in leading-edge research will help to make Canada one of the most innovative countries in the world by 2010. | ||||
Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
|
|||||