Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Climate
• Consumer Issues
• Economic Development
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Health
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Municipalities
• Taxation and Finance
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program

• Co-op Sector: - To maintain momentum following the unanimous adoption of Motion M-100 to establish a framework that will promote the recognition and development of co-operatives in Canada and asks Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to establish a national co-operative development strategy. - Call upon the Federal Government to investment in the Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund. - To commit resources to build capacity in the co-op sector to promote co-operatives as a sustainable and well understood business model that can have significant impact on major policy.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Bank Act: Supporting amendments to the Act that would allow credit unions to continue to use banking terms.

Policies or Program

• Climate Change Adaptation – Advancing flood resiliency, residential overland flood insurance, flood mapping, weather harden houses/changes in building codes.
• Fire Safety with respect to enhancing community resilience to wildfires and building code amendments for fire sprinklers in new home construction
• Resilient and Low-Carbon Economy: - Support the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures financial to promote more consistent, comparable, and reliable disclosure of climate related information. - Call upon the Government to establish a Canadian Leaders Task Force on Sustainable Finance which would develop a set of recommendations for a Canadian Framework for Sustainable Finance.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Senate of Canada
• Transport Canada (TC)

Address:
130 Macdonell Street
Guelph, ON  N1H 6P8
Canada

Telephone number: 519-824-4400
Fax number: 519-824-0599  

Client representative

Casey Shore, Co-ordinator, Board & Member Services

Parent Company Information

The Co-operators Group Limited / Groupe Co-operators limitée is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.