Registry of Lobbyists
Version 5 of 57 (2007-11-14 to 2008-05-09) 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: |
Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada / Fédération de l'habitation coopérative du Canada
225 Metcalfe Street Suite 311 Ottawa, ON K2P 1P9 Canada |
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| Telephone number: | 613-230-2201 Ext.: 230 | ||||||
| Fax number: | 613-230-2231 | ||||||
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | Nicholas Gazzard, Executive Director | ||||||
| Description of the organization's activities: | CHF Canada is a non-profit co-op association. Our services include research to support new co-op development and improve government support programs; representing our members' interests to the federal government; developing and promoting national education materials for the co-op housing movement; organizing conferences and training forums, etc; providing support to co-ops and member federations upon request; research on legal matters; publishing newsletters and bulletins for our members. | ||||||
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | Our members include: non-profit housing co-ops (except in Quebec, where housing co-ops belong to CHF Canada through their local federations); federations of existing housing co-ops at the local and regional levels; groups that help housing co-ops; provincial co-op housing associations that work on provincial issues; associations that represent and support housing co-op staff; land trusts that hold and protect land for housing co-ops; sponsoring organization who lend us their support and assistance. | ||||||
| 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: | 2006-12-31 | ||||||
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| Name: | Harvey Cooper |
| Position title: | Manager, Govt Relations/Co-op Services, Ontario Region |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Nicholas Gazzard |
| Position title: | Executive Director |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | David Granovsky |
| Position title: | Government Relations Co-ordinator |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Name: | Dale Reagan |
| Position title: | Managing Director, Ontario Region |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Merrilee Robson |
| Position title: | National Communications Officer |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Nicholas Sidor |
| Position title: | Director, Corporate Affairs |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Name: | Karla Skoutajan |
| Position title: | Director, Sector Development |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: | Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) | ||||||||||||||
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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, Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format | ||||||||||||||
| Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: | Housing, community development | ||||||||||||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | 1. Lobbying for changes to regulations governing administration of the federal co-op housing portfolio. 2. Lobbying against devolution of co-op housing programs to the provinces, municipalities and for-profit private sector organizations. 3. Lobbying for new housing supply program. 4. Lobbying around homelessness issues. | ||||||||||||||
| Subject Matter: Prospective: | 1. Lobbying for changes to regulations governing administration of the federal co-op housing portfolio.2. Lobbying for the transfer of federal co-op housing administration for Manitoba to the federal level.3. Lobbying for funding for new affordable housing programs.4. Lobbying for new low-income subsidies for federal co-ops.5. Lobbying for energy retrofit programs for co-op housing.6. Lobbying around the elimination of homelessness in Canada. | ||||||||||||||
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