Lobbying registration dated 2026-01-06
Registrant: Tim Gray
Client: Environmental Defence Canada
Targeted institutions:
Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG)
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Transport Canada (TC)
Parks Canada (PC)
Canadian Heritage (PCH)
Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
Justice Canada (JC)
Finance Canada (FIN)
Export Development Canada (EDC)
House of Commons
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Statistics Canada (StatCan)
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Competition Bureau Canada (COBU)
Canadian Energy Regulator (CER)
Privy Council Office (PCO)
Senate of Canada
Health Canada (HC)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC)
Legislative bills: C-383
C-5
Acts: Financial Institutions
Building Canada Act
Competition Act
Income Tax Act
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act
Species at Risk Act
Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act
Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
Impact Assessment Act
Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act
Fisheries Act
National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act
Government funding received:
Institution: Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Amount: null
Lobbying activity details:
Advising on the environmental impacts of projects enabled by Bill C-5 and seeking to mitigate harms.
Seeking regulations to ban thermal coal exports from and through Canada.
Supporting the establishment, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, of regulations to address plastic pollution.
Highlighting affordability and environmental considerations of applying tariffs to Chinese electric vehicles.
Seeking stronger rules, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicle fuel economy regulations and zero-emission vehicle standards to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
Rouge National Urban Park expansion involving the former Pickering Airport lands.
Seeking regulation of critical habitat for Redside Dace and other species under the Species at Risk Act.
Seeking, under the Competition Act, regulations for a sustainable finance taxonomy that aligns with limiting warming below 1.5C.
Federal Budget - providing resources for environmental initiatives, including climate change, public transit, renewable energy, climate finance accountability, investment in water and wastewater infrastructure, pollution abatement and enforcement, economic transition, sustainable jobs, aligning federal spending with climate objectives and restricting resources for fossil fuels.
Supporting the development of the Sustainable Jobs Action Plans, under the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, with regard to accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and economic growth in a net-zero economy.
Supporting Canada meeting its international commitments and obligations under the Paris Agreement.
Seeking 1.5 aligned scenarios to meet Canada’s climate commitments from the Canada Energy Regulator in its annual Energy Futures reports, based on recent analysis from the International Energy Agency that shows shrinking global oil and gas demand and warns against use of speculative technologies.
Presentations on how to improve Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act and its subsequent regulations in a manner that protects the environment in Canada.
Supporting revisions to the Impact Assessment Act and associated regulations to ensure ongoing review of projects based on key environmental parameters under federal jurisdiction.
Advancing climate transition plans across the economy, requiring federally regulated financial institutions and large companies to develop and implement plans that align their business with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Supporting workforce development and regional economic development programs to advance the creation of sustainable jobs.
Seeking, under the Canada Business Corporation Act, disclosure requirements for large private companies on their climate-related emissions and net-zero transition plans.
Supporting the commitment made by the federal government to end fossil fuel subsidies and public financing of the oil and gas sector, and ensure the Polluter Pays principle is upheld.
Strengthening the Competition Act to limit corporate greenwashing.
Supporting stronger rules limiting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Ensure a green investments Taxonomy does not include fossil fuels.
Supporting the federal government in its negotiation of a strong international treaty on plastic waste.
Supporting federal action to protect communities and ecosystems from local impacts in the oil sands, including from seeping oil sands process water.
Supporting the implementation, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, of Clean Electricity Regulations to mitigate climate change and build a low carbon future.
Supporting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice under the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act.
Supporting, under the Income Tax Act, federal investment in clean economic development that excludes carbon capture and storage and fossil-fuel derived hydrogen.
Environmental and industrial strategy approaches to reducing waste and material inputs
Supporting federal action establishing a Federal Plastics Registry that will require producers to report annually on the quantity and types of plastic they place on the Canadian market, how it moves through the economy, and how it is managed at its end-of-life.
Supporting, under the auspices of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Fisheries Act enforcement actions with regard to pollution being emitted from the oil sands, and implementation of the Chemicals Management Plan; ensuring assessment and regulation of priority chemicals of concern.
Supporting the establishment of the Canada Public Transit Fund and negotiated infrastructure funding agreements with provinces, territories, and cities, where the federal government would establish land-use standards near federally funded transit stations, establish zero-emission bus procurement requirements and expand operations funding to increase transit service levels.
Supporting the establishment, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, of a greenhouse gas emissions cap regulation for the oil and gas sector.
Support for Canadian Indigenous communities in their efforts to secure the removal of the Line 5 oil pipeline under the Great Lakes.
Seeking investment and co-investment in housing programs to increase housing capacity within towns and cities in Canada.
Supporting C-383, an Act to prohibit the export of thermal coal from Canada.
Supporting the establishment, under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA), of regulations requiring disclosure, and prohibitions, restrictions, or container requirements for certain human health hazards of concern (HHHOCs) in consumer chemical products.
Supporting federal action to reduce plastic waste in grocery stores through reductions in packaging and overwrap, increases in the use of reusable packaging, and greater transparency with regard to the effectiveness of recycling and waste diversion approaches across Canada.
Supporting the establishment, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, of regulations on the manufacture, use, sale and import of products containing CEPA-toxic and potentially toxic substances.
Seeking a strengthening of the Output-based pricing system intended to make polluters pay
Supporting stronger regulations under the Fisheries Act on Oil Sands Mining Effluent Release.
Seeking, under the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act, regulations to mobilize the financial sector for the transition to a climate safe future.
Supporting federal government commitments to achieve a significant reduction in the risk posed by pesticides by 2030 as part of its international commitments to the Convention on Biodiversity.
Supporting investment in systems for reuse and refill as an alternative to single-use packaging.
Supporting a Climate-Aligned Finance Act, that would  include enforcing science-based targets and holding financial institutions accountable to them.
Supporting the strengthening of current and future federal government emission reduction targets.