Lobbying organisation

York University

62 meetings with public office holders, Aug 12, 2025 to Jul 23, 2026.

371 meetings on record since the registry opened in 2008, and 1 sponsored trip since 2017.

Also sponsors members' travel

Paid for 1 trip by 1 member, worth $1,812.

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

  • Aug 2025: 5 meetings, with Karim Bardeesy, Maggie Chi, Matthew Pollesel, Michael Ma, Bryn Savage
  • Sep 2025: 2 meetings, with Ryan Spero, Francesco Sorbara
  • Oct 2025: 16 meetings, with Greg Orencsak, Taki Sarantakis, Alex Kondakov, Melissa Lantsman, Mark Schaan
  • Nov 2025: 2 meetings, with Bayan Kadri, Shalene Curtis-Micallef
  • Dec 2025: 9 meetings, with Fahim Khan, Matthew O'Connell, Rachel Sutton, Taki Sarantakis, Hilary Hendriks
  • Jan 2026: 0 meetings
  • Feb 2026: 2 meetings, with Jeff Labonté, Drew Leyburne, Manvir Shokar
  • Mar 2026: 5 meetings, with Bayan Kadri, Jennifer McKelvie, Tim Hodgson, Juanita Nathan, Helena Jaczek
  • Apr 2026: 0 meetings
  • May 2026: 10 meetings, with Taki Sarantakis, Duncan Tooley, Vince Gasparro, Leslie Church, Michael Guglielmin
  • Jun 2026: 7 meetings, with Tim Hodgson, Jeff Waring, Kelly Burke, Mary-Elizabeth Power, Ryan Spero
  • Jul 2026: 4 meetings, with Julie Dzerowicz, Normand Labrie, Duncan Tooley, Jennifer McKelvie
Aug 2025peak 16 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

Had travel paid for by this organisationSome had no meeting filed by this organisation, only travel.
Met only
Liberal12 met · 21 meetings
Conservative2 met · 2 meetings · $1,812 travel
Not in Arena's member list25 met · 34 meetings
  • Bayan Kadri
  • Duncan Tooley
  • Taki Sarantakis
  • Fahim Khan
  • Ryan Spero
  • Soyoung Park
  • Alex Kondakov
  • Alexa Kalsatos
  • Alexis Graham
  • Bronwyn May
  • Bryn Savage
  • Chelios Vuong
  • Drew Leyburne
  • Gabriela DeJager
  • Greg Orencsak
  • Hamid Mohamed
  • Hilary Hendriks
  • Jaun Sarmiento
  • Jeff Labonté
  • Jeff Waring
  • Kelly Burke
  • Manvir Shokar
  • Marcel Turcot
  • Mark Schaan
  • Mary-Elizabeth Power

The 40 most-met of 60 people named in these filings.

House of Commons (22) · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) (9) · Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) (6) · Health Canada (HC) (6) · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) (6) · Finance Canada (FIN) (5)

In their own words

  • Inquire on the status of grants and to propose a wide variety of academic research projects to Federal Research Granting Councils (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)- Advocating for continued and increased granting council funding.
  • Raising awareness about York University's strengths in research, teaching, and scholarship and differentiation among post-secondary institutions in Canada
  • Advocating for increases in funding for research and innovation, as well as funding to the Indirect Costs Program of SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR

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.