Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Housing
- Taxation and Finance
Subject matters added through a monthly communication report
- Budget
- Economic Development
- Regional Development
- Small Business
Subject Matter Details
Policies or Program
- Lobbying around the elimination of homelessness in Canada.
- Lobbying for energy retrofit programs for co-op housing.
- Lobbying for government to examine the consequences of the steady erosion of rent-geared-to-income (RGI) capacity for low-income households in existing federally administered housing providers, including co-operatives.
- Lobbying for new low-income subsidies for federal co-ops (including Section 95 program co-op housing).
- Lobbying to ensure that low-income households can continue to live affordably in federally-administered housing co-operatives after their operating agreements end with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
- Lobbying to ensure the new affordable housing framework is implemented and linked to measurable outcomes.
Communication Techniques
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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House of Commons
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
In-house Organization Details
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.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
Timothy Ross,
Executive Director
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.
Government funding
End date of the last completed financial year:
2017-12-31
List of Government Funding
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Government Institution
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Funding Received in Last Financial Year
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Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
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BC Housing
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$0.00
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Yes
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
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$10,000.00
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Yes
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Government of Nova Scotia
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$90,000.00
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Yes
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In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
225 Metcalfe Street
Suite 311
Ottawa, ON K2P 1P9
Canada
Telephone number:
613-230-2201
Ext.
222
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- Harvey Cooper,
Managing Director, Ontario Region |
No public offices held
- Diana Devlin,
Program Manager, Special Projects |
No public offices held
- Scott Jackson,
Program Manager, National Communications |
No public offices held
- Jacob Larocque-Graham,
Co-ordinator, Government Relations, Ontario Region |
No public offices held
- Timothy Ross,
Executive Director |
No public offices held
- Simone Swail,
Program Manager, Govt Relations, Ontario Region |
No public offices held
- Douglas Wong,
Program Manager, Policy and Government Relations |
No public offices held
