Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Agriculture
• Budget
• Economic Development
• Education
• Energy
• Environment
• Fisheries
• Health
• Immigration
• Infrastructure
• Pensions
• Small Business
• Taxation and Finance
• Tourism
• Transportation

Subject matters added through a monthly communication report

• Employment and Training
• Forestry

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• -Seeking funding opportunities for The Existence Project – Community based workshops connecting community through storytelling -Seeking funding opportunities for The Existence Project’s Keeping It Human Program - a storytelling workshop for classrooms that want to build a deeper understanding of youth homelessness. -Communications with MPs regarding the status of 2019 Canada Summer Jobs funding applications
• Connected Communities Work: A Model for Poverty Reduction and Community Development. Seeking to include support Connected Communities Work in federal infrastructure budget.
• Funding application to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada under the Call for Proposals 2019: Settlement and Resettlement Assistance Program.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Amending the Canada Water Act to reflect contemporary environmental concerns

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation

• COVID-19 blue-green economic recovery: advocating for COVID-19 responses that promotes natural infrastructure and water stimulus. Advocating for a recovery plan that retains or enhances existing environmental laws. Advocating for stimulus funding that enhances environmental conservation, with additional benefits to human well being.
• Canada Water Act: Exploring potential for renewal of legislation to strengthen federal role in fresh water management.
• Fisheries Act: Seeking strengthening of habitat protections, incorporation of sustainability principles, and legal obligations to rebuild depleted fish stocks.
• Navigation Protection Act - Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Navigation Protection Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Transportation.
• Navigation Protection Act: Seeking a return to protections for all navigable waters.
• Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Fisheries Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

• Advocate for reforms to the charity sector through changes to the Income Tax Act and CRA regulations

Policies or Program

• -Updating Canada’s Federal Water Policy of 1987 to better support how fresh water is governed and how the health of Canada’s freshwater ecosystems can be improved. -The benefits of updating the Canada Water Actof 1970 to support freshwater health across Canadaand the federal government’s role in supporting healthy fresh water across the country. -Including priorities identified by the Our Living Waters Network in the formation of the Canada Water Agency-which is referred to in the mandate letter issued to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canadaby the Prime Minister.
• Advocating establishment of a Canada Water Agency
• Discussing engaging pension fund beneficiaries and supporting pension fund managers to be a part of the transition to a low-carbon economy to achieve the inextricably linked goals of pension wealth and planet health. Sharing research and discussing new laws and programs that various states and governments have been passing related to this area.
• Infrastructure investment to improve water quality; Offer feedback and ideas on how infrastructure investment could improve water quality
• Nature-based solutions to build back better: 1) Renewing Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Funding program and reserving 25% of funding for "Green Infrastructure" projects, and 2) Instituting a new dedicated Natural Infrastructure Fund that would invest $500 million over the next five years the development, implementation and evaluation of natural infrastructure projects across the country.
• Pan Canadian national water quality strategy; Explore concept and how to set up pan Canadian water strategy
• Policies related to the integration of water health into food and agricultural policy, including but not limited to the development of a new Food Policy Framework for Canada.
• Policies related to the reduction of phosphorous in Canadian lakes, including but not limited to the Lake Erie Phosphorus Reduction Plan.

Regulation

• Health Canada's development of new regulatory guidance on novel foods and "Consultation: Proposed new guidance for Novel Food Regulations focused on plant breeding" regarding safety assessments for genetically engineered foods

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Senate of Canada
• Transport Canada (TC)

Address:
400-163 W Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC  V6B 1H5
Canada

Telephone number: 647-417-1727