Lobbying registration dated 2026-02-16
Registrant: Lucie Bérubé
Client: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Targeted institutions:
Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Transport Canada (TC)
Justice Canada (JC)
Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)
Finance Canada (FIN)
House of Commons
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)
Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC)
Privy Council Office (PCO)
Senate of Canada
Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
Health Canada (HC)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Public Safety Canada (PS)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Acts: Customs Tariff
Agricultural Products Marketing Act
Government funding received:
Lobbying activity details:
Consultation on Vitamin D fortification.
Contribute to a Vision Exercise on the future of dairy with AAFC.
Canadian Agricultural Products Act  with respect to standards for ice cream and yogurt.
Quality Milk Program - Implementation and administration of the Quality Milk Program under the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program of AAFC.
Traceability
Under "Agricultural Partnership", the establishment of regulations for traceability.  Collaborating with provincial and federal governments in the determination of private and public interests and in discussions with Ministers re government/industry share of costs.
Ensure the appropriate allocation of the Tariff Rate Quotas under the Comprehensive Review of the Allocation and Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas for Dairy, Poultry and Egg Products.
Animal Health - development of the  Animal Health Canada with CFIA and AAFC.
Consultations on supplemented foods.
Agriculture and dairy farming (Farm Management and Technology and Social/Policy Challenges)
Advocating for resources for Border enforcement of dairy regulations.
Implementation of a Grocers Code of Conduct.
Federal framework and action plan on antimicrobial us and antimicrobial resistance.
Implementation of new tariff rate quotas for milk protein isolates as per GATT Article XXVIII, Amendment to Customs Tariff (tariff line 3504).  Work with Finance Canada, AAFC and DFAIT on implementation and allocation of said TRQ.
Ingredients
Industry stakeholders discussion on domestic ingredient strategy, pricing of components, marketing of ingredients.  Involves discussions with the Canadian Dairy Commission.
Agreement on Internal Trade
Canada's position on agriculture at the UN Food System Summit.
Growing Forward.
This is a federal-provincial agreement with oversight for many of our issues (Business Risk Management, Research, etc.)
Use of Veterinary Natural Health Products in dairy livestock production - Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada.
International trade negotiations and ensuring mitigation measures for existing/future trade agreements.
Implementation of Special Agricultural Safeguard for supply-managed products, dairy products in particular.
Guide for Food labelling and Advertising in respect of all dairy products and use of dairy terminology (modifiers, highlighted ingredients).
WTO (World Trade Organization) Negotiations on Agriculture as it relates to supply management.
Canada-EU Trade Agreement, CUSMA, CPTTP and Canada-UK.
 The components within these agreements that we are interested in are agriculture and protection/exemption of supply management.
Climate Change / Environment
Farm practices for greenhouse gas mitigation; documenting programs that exist provincially and federally that are available to dairy producers; promoting best management practices.
proAction - implementation and administration of the proAction program.
Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as they apply to all dairy product compositional standards, in particular those on cheese and yogourt.
Product of Canada consultations
Dairy Farmers of Canada participated in federal government consultations on regulations pertaining to "Product of Canada".
Explicit and implied Health Claims related to dairy and non-dairy products
Development of the Code of Practice for the Care and handling of Dairy Cattle in cooperation with CFIA's activities in OIE (Organisation mondiale de la Santé Animale).
Health Canada's consultation and next steps around regulation of foods derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer clones.
Research
Under "Canadian Agricultural Partnership", the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food announced a research cluster, in cooperation with Dairy Farmers of Canada, worth $12M.
Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as it applies to the labelling and advertising of dairy products
Discretionary Food Fortification policy of Health Canada.  DFC has particular interest in the discretionary food fortification of non-nutritious foods and vitamin fortification of dairy products.
Trans fats, Saturated fats, Sodium  and Sugar as it relates to dairy products, Food Guide recommendations and nutritional labelling.
Discretionary Food Fortification
Governed by Food and Drug Act and the Agricultural Products Marketing Act.