Lobbying organisation

Council of Canadian Innovators

www.canadianinnovators.org ↗

177 meetings with public office holders, May 9, 2025 to Jul 27, 2026.

830 meetings on record since 2016, their first on record.

Meetings over time

  • May 2025: 2 meetings, with David Boland, Joanna Murphy, Scott Taylor, Patrick Comtois, John Dullaert
  • Jun 2025: 22 meetings, with David Boland, Joanna Murphy, Scott Taylor, Raquel Dancho, Patrick Weiler
  • Jul 2025: 5 meetings, with Allison Catmur, Stéphane Crépeau -, Wendy Hadwen, Swithin D'Zouza, Benjamin Ebadi
  • Aug 2025: 13 meetings, with Chantal Warywonda, Marie-Claude Hurens, Lesie-Ann Chang, Aline Ngarukiyintwalie, David McFarlane
  • Sep 2025: 14 meetings, with Evan Solomon, Taleeb Noormohamed, Niloo Boroun, Matthew O'Connell, Francois-Phillipe Champagne
  • Oct 2025: 12 meetings, with Raquel Dancho, Peter Wall, Mark Schaan, Colin Deacon, David Dlab
  • Nov 2025: 6 meetings, with Charles Vincent, Arash Rahmani, Lena Metlege Diab, Louise Baird, Harpreet Kochhar
  • Dec 2025: 9 meetings, with Mark Schaan, Runa Angus, Sebastien Lauzier, Brian Botting, Gaetan Malette
  • Jan 2026: 9 meetings, with Brian Gordon, Anushka Kurian, Matthew O'Connell, Nicole Vigneault, Stephanie Warner
  • Feb 2026: 13 meetings, with David Lisk, David McNil, Erin Campbell, Charles Vincent, Nick Lewick
  • Mar 2026: 19 meetings, with Philip Jennings, Michael Assad, Rechie Valdez, Sony Perron, Kendra Wilcox
  • Apr 2026: 10 meetings, with Diakarian-Tarak Diallo, Kelsey Lane, Jenna Sudds, Diakaria Diallo, Katarina Stephenson
  • May 2026: 26 meetings, with Iris Petten, Laural Porth-Jones, Katherine Morley, Katarina Stephenson, Colin Deacon
  • Jun 2026: 11 meetings, with Matthew O'Connell, Tom Osborne, Francois-Phillipe Champagne, Audrey Milette, Morgan McCullough
  • Jul 2026: 6 meetings, with Mark Schaan, Jordan Zed, Anushka Kurian, Alan MacDonald, Sarah Manney
May 2025peak 26 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

Conservative3 met · 9 meetings
Not in Arena's member list31 met · 88 meetings
  • Wilder Walker-Stewart
  • Mark Schaan
  • Matthew O'Connell
  • Peter Wall
  • Brian Gordon
  • Chanel Sterie
  • Charles Vincent
  • Clinton Lawrence-Whyte
  • Colin Deacon
  • Conor Lewis
  • David McFarlane
  • Dominic Laporte
  • James Burns
  • John Burnett
  • Katherine Morley
  • Kelsey Lane
  • Nicholas Chesterley
  • Niloo Boroun
  • Samuel Millar
  • Simran Arulraj
  • Tim Logan
  • Adam Pender
  • Alexander Jeglic
  • Alexandra Dostal
  • Anushka Kurian
  • Arianne Reza
  • Audrey Milette
  • Brian Botting
  • David Boland
  • Diakaria Diallo
  • Erin Campbell

The 40 most-met of 219 people named in these filings.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) (67) · House of Commons (63) · Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) (37) · Finance Canada (FIN) (32) · National Defence (DND) (31) · Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) (11)

In their own words

  • The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is engaging with government officials to discuss the alignment between CCI’s priorities and the federal government’s efforts to foster innovation in Canada. These discussions focus on ensuring that government programs and policies effectively support high-growth Canadian technology firms and strengthen the country’s innovation ecosystem.
  • Health Canada: advocate for an increase of resources for Therapeutics Canada for them to speed up processing times and efficiencies within their department; create working groups and framework with industry leaders and health Canada on digital and data health, and create a therapeutics working group with industry and health Canada.
  • Advance discussions on policies and programs that advance prosperity and innovation in Atlantic Canada and beyond including procurement, productivity, healthtech, artifical intelligence, clean tech, skills, immigration and other topics of relevance to members.

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.