Lobbying registration dated 2026-01-30
Registrant: HUW WILLIAMS
Client: Generation Squeeze
Targeted institutions:
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Finance Canada (FIN)
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
House of Commons
Health Canada (HC)
Government funding received:
Lobbying activity details:
Advocating that the Government of Canada commit to comprehensive carbon budgets.
Encouraging the Government of Canada to be more transparent with Canadians about how longer lives affect our assumptions about retirement security programs.
Encourage the federal government to rethink the role of real estate in economic growth, including by developing a plan to increase housing supply.
Advocating for policy recommendations that ensure all Canadians can afford enough time at home and enough time at work when they start their families. This includes supporting investments in a national childcare system.
Work towards ensuring all Canadians can afford a good home by 2030. This includes stalling home prices to ensure that local earnings can catch up.
Advocating for a review of existing taxation schemes to identify opportunities to create more affordable housing for Canadians.
Advancing recommendations to hold climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This includes meeting Canada's climate targets and commitments.
Advocate that the federal government include an accurate and meaningful assessment of spending by age in the federal budget.
Encourage the Government of Canada to align the mandates of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Recommend that the Government of Canada restructure parental leave time.
Advocating that the Government of Canada develop budgets that work for all generations. This would include assigning a point-person for intergenerational fairness in budgeting processes.
Advocate that the increasing minimum and maximum parental leave benefit amounts.
Advocating that the federal budget report on the ratio between spending on medical care versus spending on social investments.