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Registration - In-house Organization

SAIT Polytechnic / Irene Lewis, President & Chief Executive Officer

Registration Information

In-house Organization name: SAIT Polytechnic
Responsible Officer Name: Irene Lewis, President & Chief Executive Officer 
Initial registration start date: 2005-10-12
Registration status: Inactive
Registration Number: 778081-5809

Associated Communications

Total Number of Communication Reports: 2

Monthly communication reports in the last 6 months: 0

Version 1 of 11 (2005-10-12 to 2006-06-07)

Version 1 of 11 (2005-10-12 to 2006-06-07) 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: SAIT Polytechnic
1301 - 16 Avenue N.W.
Calgary, AB  T2M 0L4
Canada
Telephone number: 403-284-7055
Fax number: 403-284-8940  
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: Irene Lewis, President & CEO  
 
Description of the organization's activities: SAIT Polytechnic (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) is a public, board-based polytechnic operating as a technical institute in accordance with the Post-Secondary Learning Act. Located in Calgary, SAIT is Canada's oldest publicly funded technical institute and offers upgrading, apprenticeship, certificate, diploma, applied degrees and bacculaureate degrees.
Organization's membership or classes of membership: 70,000 students and 2,000 faculty and staff.
 
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
Government of Alberta $85,000,000.00

B. Lobbyists Employed by the Organization

Name: Ivan Bernardo
Position title: Board of Governors, SAIT
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Julien De Schutter
Position title: Board of Governors, WorldSkills 2009 Calgary
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Scott Hierath
Position title: Government Relations
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Guy Mallabone
Position title: VP External Relations, SAIT
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Menno Vanderlist
Position title: Board of Governors, WorldSkills 2009 Calgary
Public offices held: No
 
Name: Richard Walker
Position title: President & CEO, WorldSkills 2009 Calgary
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: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), Industry Canada, National Energy Board (NEB), National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)
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: Aboriginal Affairs, Education, Employment and Training, Energy, Health, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Regional Development, Science and Technology, Sports
 
Subject Matter: Retrospective: SAIT's has been working with WD, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Health Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Industry Canada, and HRSD on a number of initiatives: 1. Centre for Innovative Information Technology Solutions (CIITS) 2. applied research proposals.
Subject Matter: Prospective: 1. Working with WD staff on a $1 million grant application for the CIITS project.2. Approval from NSERC for eligibility.3. Joint application with various Calgary partners for Health Canada research grant.4. Working with HRDC to address labour shortages from the post secondary perspective5. Discussing with officials within the PMO the upcoming WorldSkills 2009 exhibition that SAIT is hosting
 

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Categories Description
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit 1. Western Economic Diversification (WD)grant for CIITS proposal.



Responsible Officer Name

This is the responsible officer name as provided in the most recent registration for the corporation or organization.

Name Change History:

SAIT Polytechnic

The following names have been used on or after July 2, 2008

The following names have been used on or after July 2, 2008
Name From To
SAIT Polytechnic 2009-04-08 2012-02-02

The following names have been used before July 2, 2008

  • SAIT Polytechnic

Responsible Officer Change History

SAIT Polytechnic

Responsible Officer History
Responsible Officer Name From (YYYY-MM-DD) To (YYYY-MM-DD)

All Monthly Communication Reports for SAIT Polytechnic

Irene Lewis, President & Chief Executive Officer (Organization)

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Registrants are required to submit a monthly communication report for each oral and arranged communication with a designated public office holder. The name of the most senior paid officer (i.e. the registrant) will appear on all in-house monthly communication reports, whether or not he/she participated in the communication.

Note: Monthly Communication Reports are due on the 15th day of each month for communications that took place in the previous month.

Results below are sorted by posted date, beginning with the most recent.

Results 1-2 of 2

  • SAIT Polytechnic
    In-house Organization
    Designated Public Office Holders who participated in the communication:
    • Gary Lunn, Minister of State for Sport | Minister of State for Sport

    Subject Matter of the communication: Education, Sports
    Communication date: 2010-09-10
    Posted date: 2010-09-21
    Communication number: 5809-155210 View associated registration
  • SAIT Polytechnic
    In-house Organization
    Designated Public Office Holders who participated in the communication:
    • Denis Gauthier, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister | Finance Canada (FIN)

    Subject Matter of the communication: Education
    Communication date: 2009-04-16
    Posted date: 2009-05-13
    Communication number: 5809-104895 View associated registration

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