Lobbying registration dated 2026-01-15
Registrant: Kate Sauser
Client: Grain Growers of Canada
Targeted institutions:
Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Transport Canada (TC)
Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
Justice Canada (JC)
Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)
Finance Canada (FIN)
Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
House of Commons
National Defence (DND)
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Statistics Canada (StatCan)
Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office)
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
National Research Council (NRC)
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan)
Privy Council Office (PCO)
Senate of Canada
Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
Health Canada (HC)
Competition Tribunal (CT)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Public Safety Canada (PS)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Canadian Grain Commission (CGC)
Acts: Canada Labour Code
Canada Grain Act
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act
Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
Government funding received:
Lobbying activity details:
Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to Minor Use Pesticide Program including new pesticides, minor uses and amended labelling for usage.
Canada Labour Code, and regulations specifically related to grain handling and transportation.
Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, with respect to supporting farmer competitiveness and further enabling farmers' role as climate solution providers.
Health Canada Food and Drug Regulations as they relate to mandatory nutrition labeling, health claims involving cereal grains, oilseeds and pulse crops, Genetically Modified food labeling.
Trade-enabling infrastructure, advocating for investments in infrastructure essential to the export of Canadian grain and grain products.
Advocating for a fair and efficient railway transportation system that serves the needs of grain producers.
Canada Grain Act, seeking to enhance producer protections, bolster the producer payment security program, and increase data requirement functions.
Business Risk Management (BRM) programs, particularly AgriStability, AgriInvest and AgriRecovery, ensuring these programs provide farmers with a sufficient safety net and tools to mitigate financial losses and protect farm viability.
Capital Gains Inclusion Rate, specifically as it relates to intergenerational transfers and family farms.
Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to the Own Use Import and the Grower Requested Own Use programs.
Agricultural trade negotiations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Canada-India, Canada-China, with respect to more export market opportunities for grain farmers.
Grain research and development, particularly ensuring that AAFC is properly staffed and resourced, continues downstream research, return to former levels of research funding, and modernize their R&D infrastructure and technology.
Viterra-Bunge merger, sharing concerns from grain farmers regarding the proposed acquisition.
Right to repair to ensure that grain farmers can access diagnostics software to repair their equipment.
International trade benefitting grain farmers, ensuring that exports of grain and grain products and imports of essential equipment and inputs remain tariff-free.
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, with respect to trade distorting impacts.
Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS), ensuring that the strategy is fully funded, does not include any targets without data and helps to grow food production to meet increasing domestic and global demand.