Lobbying organisation

Colleges and Institutes Canada

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153 meetings with public office holders, May 7, 2025 to Jul 29, 2026.

1,215 meetings on record since the registry opened in 2008.

Meetings over time

  • May 2025: 2 meetings, with Mona Fortier, Soyoung Park, Pemi Gill, Bronwyn May
  • Jun 2025: 10 meetings, with Adam Carroll, Isabelle Buchanan, Valérie Laflamme, Tim Logan, Harpreet Kochhar
  • Jul 2025: 9 meetings, with Angus Topshee, Ulric Shannon, Mona Fortier, Paul Moen, Manuela Tomic
  • Aug 2025: 8 meetings, with Anne-Marie Thompson, Noémie Fiset-Tremblay, Maninder Sidhu, Isabelle Buchanan, Arash Rahmani
  • Sep 2025: 11 meetings, with Colette Kaminsky, David Grebstad, Pascal Belhumeur, Eugenia Kalantzis, Jeannot Boucher
  • Oct 2025: 10 meetings, with Philip Jennings, Michelle Gravelle, Soyoung Park, Marcel Turcot, Salman Arif
  • Nov 2025: 12 meetings, with Paul Halucha, Miles Wu, Sebastian Clarke, Richard Martel, Matthew O'Connell
  • Dec 2025: 12 meetings, with Manal Bahubeshi, Matt de Vlieger, Erin Lynch, Jeff Waring, Samuel Millar
  • Jan 2026: 5 meetings, with Ted Hewitt, Karim Bardeesy, Mackenzy Metcalfe, Matthew O'Connell, Manuela Tomic
  • Feb 2026: 10 meetings, with Colette Kaminsky, André Baril, Robert Jones, Jennifer McKelvie, Bayan Kadri
  • Mar 2026: 21 meetings, with Randeep Sarai, Rodney Ghali, Chad Hartnell, Samir Kassam, François-Philippe Champagne
  • Apr 2026: 9 meetings, with Raquel Dancho, Nipun Vats, Marie-Helene Legare, Holly McCracken, Andrea Smith
  • May 2026: 6 meetings, with Lena Diab, Weldon Epp, Jean-Christian Brillant, Christine Laberge, Loc Pham
  • Jun 2026: 13 meetings, with Steve Masson, Sarah Manney, Mary-Liz Power, Bayan Kadri, Mary-Elizabeth Power
  • Jul 2026: 15 meetings, with Lisa A Courtney-Mercer, Samuel Millar, Jessica Fullerton, Adam Carroll, Miles Wu
May 2025peak 21 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.

Who they met

Not in Arena's member list32 met · 96 meetings
  • Soyoung Park
  • Colette Kaminsky
  • Manal Bahubeshi
  • Adam Carroll
  • Bayan Kadri
  • Manuela Tomic
  • Miles Wu
  • Alejandro Adem
  • Isabelle Buchanan
  • Matthew O'Connell
  • Nipun Vats
  • Paul Hébert
  • Reem Al-Ameri
  • Samir Kassam
  • Samuel Millar
  • Alfred Burgesson
  • Angus Topshee
  • Anne-Marie Thompson
  • Arash Rahmani
  • Chris Elliott
  • Crystina Dundas
  • Dilys Fernandes
  • Glenn Purves
  • Jean-Christian Brillant
  • Jessica Fullerton
  • Juan David Gonzalez Camacho
  • Mackenzy Metcalfe
  • Marcel Turcot
  • Mark Schaan
  • Matt de Vlieger
  • Mike Hamm
  • Noémie Fiset-Tremblay

The 40 most-met of 150 people named in these filings.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) (25) · Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) (25) · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) (25) · House of Commons (21) · Global Affairs Canada (GAC) (21) · Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) (18)

In their own words

  • Communicating with government officials about additional federal funding for post-secondary colleges, institutes of technology, university-colleges, cégeps and polytechnics, including funding for skills training, applied research, workforce development and innovation.
  • Integrate colleges as equal partners and their role explicitly articulated in the mandate and objectives of new funding mechanisms, in recognition of their capacity to deliver practical research solutions for the benefit of Canadians.
  • CICan is seeking federal engagement on policies and programs that support skills training, applied research, workforce development, and innovation aligned with the government's economic, industrial, defence, and security priorities.

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.