Registration - In-house Organization

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities / Laurel Feltin, Executive Director

Registration Information

In-house Organization name: Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities
Responsible Officer Name: Laurel Feltin, Executive Director
Responsible Officer Change History
Initial registration start date: 2008-01-15
Registration status: Active
Registration Number: 894034-16512

Associated Communications

Total Number of Communication Reports: 183

Monthly communication reports in the last 6 months: 11

Version 1 of 61 (2008-01-15 to 2009-08-24)

Registration versions:

Version 1 of 61 (2008-01-15 to 2009-08-24) 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:	Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities 2075 Hamilton Street Regina, SK S4P 2E1 Canada
Telephone number:	306-757-3578
Fax number:	306-565-2141
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration:	Ken Engel, Exec Dir

Description of the organization's activities:	The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) is a provincial municipal association representing and serving the interests of Saskatchewan's 296 Rural Municipalities.
Organization's membership or classes of membership:	The Rural Municipalities of of Saskatchewan are eligable for membership in the association. All 296 Rural Municipalities are members iof the association.

Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year?	No

B. Lobbyists Employed by the Organization

Name:	Ken Engel
Position title:	Executive Director
Public offices held:	No

Name:	Laurel Feltin
Position title:	Director of Agriculture Policy
Public offices held:	No

Name:	Dale Harvey
Position title:	Assistant Executive Director
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, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Environment Canada, Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC), Finance Canada (FIN), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Grain Transportation Agency (GTA), Health Canada (HC), Justice Canada (JC), Members of the House of Commons, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Senate of Canada, Statistics Canada (StatCan), Transport Canada (TC), 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:

Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Internal Trade, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Regional Development, Taxation and Finance, Transportation

Subject Matter: Retrospective:

Met with MPs and federal officials regarding infrastructure needs of rural municipalities, the need for amendmending the Navigable Water Act, control of Richardson Ground Squirrels, agriculture and transportation policy and regulation.

Subject Matter: Prospective:

Meet with various MPs and federal officials regarding infrastructure needs of rural municipalities, the need for amendmending the Navigable Water Act, control of Richardson Ground Squirrels, agriculture and transportation policy and regulation.

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Categories	Description
Legislative Proposal	Amendments to update the Navigable Waters Act
Policy or Program	Control of Richardson Ground Squirrels
Regulation, Policy or Program	Engage in any activity tending to advance the interests of agriculture and in particular become directly and lawfully engaged in all or any of the following activities, that is to say, the handling, transportation, processing and marketing of grain and grain products, and the products of agriculture generally
Policy or Program	Infrastructure needs of rural municipalities
Regulation, Policy or Program	Transportation policy and regulation with regard to grain and grain products, and the products of agriculture generally.

Subject matters added through a communication report

Infrastructure	2009-08-13
Infrastructure funding consultations	2008-12-15
livestock industry	2009-08-13

Government institutions added through a communication report:

Infrastructure Canada (INFC) View

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

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

Name	From	To
Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities	2009-08-24	current

The following names have been used before July 2, 2008

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities