Registry of Lobbyists

Registration - In-house Organization

BIOCAP Canada Foundation / David Layzell, CEO & Research Director

Registration Information

In-house Organization name: BIOCAP Canada Foundation
Responsible Officer Name: David Layzell, CEO & Research Director 
Initial registration start date: 2005-07-18
Registration status: Inactive
Registration Number: 777215-4743

Version 1 of 8 (2005-07-18 to 2006-04-25)

Version 1 of 8 (2005-07-18 to 2006-04-25) 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.

A. Organization Information

Organization: BIOCAP Canada Foundation
Queen's University
156 Barrie Street
Kingston, ON  K7L 3N6
Canada
Telephone number: 613-542-0025  Ext.: 29
Fax number: 613-542-0045  
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: David Layzell, CEO & Research Director  
 
Description of the organization's activities: The BIOCAP Canada Foundation is a national, not-for-profit research foundation working to find solutions to climate change by using our forests and farmlands.
Organization's membership or classes of membership: Industry, Government, University, Institutional/Non-Government Organizations, Special (individual members), Ex-officio members
 
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: 2005-03-31
 
List of Government Funding
Government Institution Funding Received in Last Financial Year
Environment Canada, AAFC, NRCan $2,000,000.00

B. Lobbyists Employed by the Organization

Name: David Layzell
Position title: CEO & Research Director
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Janice Mady
Position title: Director of Operations
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Don McCabe
Position title: Director
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Viviane Paquin
Position title: Network Facilitator
Public offices held: No
 
Name: James Stephen
Position title: Network Facilitator
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Susan Wood
Position title: Associate Research Director
Public offices held: No
 

C. Lobbying Activity Information

Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Environment Canada, Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office (FEARO), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Industry Canada, National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Privy Council Office (PCO), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
Grass-roots communication, Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format
 
Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Fisheries, Forestry, Industry, Science and Technology
 
Subject Matter: Retrospective: We have been meeting with various government officials to keep them up to date on our activities and accomplishments over the past 5 years of our Contribution Agreement and to ask for further/future funding.
Subject Matter: Prospective: We will be promoting the accomplishments of BIOCAP and what we have succeeded in doing over the past 5 years and communicate how much more could be done with greater funding.
 

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Categories Description
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit We are nearing the end of a 5 year $10 million dollar contribution agreement and hope to secure longer term funding




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