Lobbying organisation

Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada

58 meetings with public office holders, Jun 11, 2025 to Aug 26, 2026, on 2 bills Arena tracks.

1,044 meetings on record since the registry opened in 2008.

Meetings over time

  • Jun 2025: 1 meeting, with Kody Blois
  • Jul 2025: 2 meetings, with Roy Karam, Melissa Kardara, Warren Gould
  • Aug 2025: 4 meetings, with Lisa Xie, Manuela Tomic, Roy Karam, Justine Frame, Galen Richardson
  • Sep 2025: 4 meetings, with Roy Karam, Justine Frame, Galen Richardson, Jay Allen
  • Oct 2025: 7 meetings, with Justine Frame, Jibril Hussein, Miled Hill, Mary Robinson, Heath MacDonald
  • Nov 2025: 4 meetings, with Elizabeth Wong, Justine Frame, Jibril Hussein, Guy Gallant, Roy Karam
  • Dec 2025: 12 meetings, with Philip Jennings, Heath MacDonald, Lawrence Hanson, Tom Rosser, Charles-Olivier Dube
  • Jan 2026: 5 meetings, with Yasir Naqvi, David Burkholder, Adam Chambers, Justine Frame, Lisa Xie
  • Feb 2026: 6 meetings, with Burton Bailey, Claudia Gallant, Luhan Yao, Helena Konanz, Miled Hill
  • Mar 2026: 5 meetings, with Helena Jaczek, Dan Mazier, Roy Karam, Justine Frame, Guy Gallant
  • Apr 2026: 1 meeting, with Shalene Curtis-Micallef, Pamela Aung-Thin
  • May 2026: 3 meetings, with Shannon Ablett, Élysée Atangana, Julian Tabbitt, Annahat Kochhar
  • Jun 2026: 1 meeting, with Justine Frame
  • Jul 2026: 2 meetings, with Shannon Ablett, Gelen Richardson, Elysee Atangana
  • Aug 2026: 1 meeting, with Sean O'Neill
Jun 2025peak 12 in a monthAug 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

  • C-224An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (natural health products)6

    Bill C-224 - An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (natural health products): To keep NHPs under the purview of the Food and Drugs Act (i.e. Vanessa’s Law), which gives the minister the authority to use a ministerial order for a number of reasons (product recall, delay cost-recovery NHPs, delay labelling for NHPs to a later date).

    • Claudia Gallant · Stakeholder Relations Advisor · House of Commons
    • Justine Frame · Policy Advisor · Health Canada (HC)
    • Luhan Yao · Policy Advisor · House of Commons
  • C-5One Canadian Economy Act1

    Measures to facilitate internal trade in Canada, including through Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act.

    No member Arena holds a page for is named in these filings — those present were:

    • Elysee Atangana · Policy Advisor · Privy Council Office (PCO)
    • Gelen Richardson · Director of Stakeholder Relations · Privy Council Office (PCO)

Who they met

Senators1 met · 1 meeting
Not in Arena's member list31 met · 56 meetings
  • Justine Frame
  • Roy Karam
  • Galen Richardson
  • Lisa Xie
  • Aaron Wudrick
  • Charles-Olivier Dube
  • Elizabeth Wong
  • Guy Gallant
  • Jibril Hussein
  • Miled Hill
  • Nasser Haidar
  • Shannon Ablett
  • Annahat Kochhar
  • Chris Forbes
  • Claudia Gallant
  • David Burkholder
  • David McFarlane
  • Elysee Atangana
  • Élysée Atangana
  • Gelen Richardson
  • Hosai Halim
  • Jay Allen
  • Jeannine Ritchot
  • Julian Tabbitt
  • Lawrence Hanson
  • Luhan Yao
  • Manuela Tomic
  • Mary Robinson
  • Melissa Kardara
  • Pamela Aung-Thin
  • Paul Moen

The 40 most-met of 48 people named in these filings.

Health Canada (HC) (19) · House of Commons (14) · Privy Council Office (PCO) (11) · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) (8) · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) (8) · Finance Canada (FIN) (4)

In their own words

  • Healthy Eating Strategy – to ensure that policy and regulation proposals on front-of-package labelling, restriction of unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children, sodium reduction initiative and ongoing revision of Canada’s Food Guide are balanced, reasonable and science-based. Providing input into Health Canada's Healthy Eating Strategy consultations.
  • Bill C-224 - An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (natural health products): To keep NHPs under the purview of the Food and Drugs Act (i.e. Vanessa’s Law), which gives the minister the authority to use a ministerial order for a number of reasons (product recall, delay cost-recovery NHPs, delay labelling for NHPs to a later date).
  • Providing input to government on rules-based trade and e-commerce: working to ensure that international trade allows for the predictable flow of ingredients, products and people; addressing the rise of non-compliant and illicit products from entering the Canadian market; and advocating against protectionism (including new tariffs).

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.