Lobbying organisation

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

55 meetings with public office holders, May 29, 2025 to Jul 28, 2026, on 1 bill Arena tracks.

222 meetings on record since 2011, their first on record, and 1 sponsored trip since 2023.

Also sponsors members' travel

Paid for 1 trip by 1 member, worth $744.

Declared to the Ethics Commissioner, a separate registry. This is what the sponsor spent on travel, not money any member received, and it is not a lobbying budget.

Meetings over time

  • May 2025: 1 meeting, with Niomi Trembley
  • Jun 2025: 0 meetings
  • Jul 2025: 1 meeting, with Patty Hadju
  • Aug 2025: 0 meetings
  • Sep 2025: 3 meetings, with Patty Hadju, Kyle Seeback, Marilène Gill, Don Davies, Anna Gainey
  • Oct 2025: 0 meetings
  • Nov 2025: 2 meetings, with Jacques Ramsay, Bram Abramson, Nathalie Theberge, Stéphanie Paquette
  • Dec 2025: 0 meetings
  • Jan 2026: 0 meetings
  • Feb 2026: 43 meetings, with Hon. John Zerucelli, Claude DeBellefeuille, Joel Raby Fernandes, Bienvenu-Olivier Ntumba, Kelly Block
  • Mar 2026: 2 meetings, with Gurbux Saini, Elliot Lockington
  • Apr 2026: 2 meetings, with Will Greaves
  • May 2026: 0 meetings
  • Jun 2026: 0 meetings
  • Jul 2026: 1 meeting, with Patty Hadju
May 2025peak 43 in a monthJul 2026

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What they lobby about

The registry's own subject categories, chosen by the lobbyist on each filing. Each one opens its own page.

Bills they lobbied on

Who they met

Had travel paid for by this organisationSome had no meeting filed by this organisation, only travel.
Met only
Liberal16 met · 30 meetings
Conservative11 met · 16 meetings
Bloc1 met · 1 meeting
NDP1 met · 1 meeting · $744 travel
Not in Arena's member list10 met · 18 meetings
  • Patty Hadju
  • Jordan Barrett-Choy
  • Nick Sushko
  • Paul Moen
  • Stéphanie Paquette
  • Alexander Jargic
  • Bram Abramson
  • Elliot Lockington
  • Fahim Khan
  • Galen Richardson

The 40 most-met of 82 people named in these filings.

House of Commons (74) · Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) (10) · Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (6) · Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) (4) · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) (4) · Finance Canada (FIN) (3)

In their own words

  • Communications with Members of Parliament, regarding federal policies, programs, and funding related to post-secondary education in British Columbia. Advocacy will focus on increased federal investment in trades and vocational education and training; professional, technical, information technology, artificial intelligence, and other emerging-sector programs; and research and innovation at public universities.
  • Advocate for the federal government’s role in maintaining and improving strong public services including dealing with concerns regarding ongoing job pressures that the public service is facing across a wide range of sectors including health care, emergency services, education, early learning and child care, municipalities, social services, libraries, utilities, transportation, airlines.
  • Implications of outsourcing telecommunications work to international vendors in the context of Bill C-8.

Meetings from the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada. Canada does not require lobbyists to disclose what they spend, so there is no lobbying budget to report here — only the meetings they filed.