Registry of Lobbyists
Total Number of Communication Reports: 2
Monthly communication reports in the last 6 months: 0
Version 3 of 11 (2007-07-05 to 2008-01-07) 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.
| Organization: |
SAIT Polytechnic
1301 - 16 Avenue N.W. Calgary, AB T2M 0L4 Canada |
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| 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: | 2007-06-30 | ||||
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| Name: | Peter Davis |
| Position title: | Director, Government Relations |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Guy Mallabone |
| Position title: | VP External Relations |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Alex Zahavich |
| Position title: | Director, Applied Research & Innovation Sciences |
| 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, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Finance Canada (FIN), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), Industry Canada, Members of the House of Commons, National Research Council (NRC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) | ||||
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Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
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Grass-roots communication, 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, Environment, Health, Industry, Labour, Science and Technology | ||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | SAIT has been working with Western Economic Diversification (WD), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Health Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Industry Canada, and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (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 $1m grant application for the CITTS project2. approval from NSERC for eligibility3. working with HRSDC to address labour shortages from the post-secondary perspective4. working with WD staff on a $30 million grant application for the TTC project5. working with INAC on a $1 million grant application for the Chinook Lodge project | ||||
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