Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Agriculture
• Arts and Culture
• Bilingualism/Official Languages
• Broadcasting
• Budget
• Climate
• Constitutional Issues
• Consumer Issues
• Defence
• Economic Development
• Education
• Employment and Training
• Energy
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Fisheries
• Forestry
• Government Procurement
• Health
• Housing
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Intellectual Property
• Internal Trade
• International Development
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Labour
• Mining
• Municipalities
• National Security/Security
• Pensions
• Privacy and Access to Information
• Regional Development
• Religion
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Small Business
• Sports
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Tourism
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Safeguarding Canadians’ Personal Information Act) with respect to the mandatory breach notification provisions
• An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act (Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act) with repect to mandatory reporting requirements
• Changes to the payments industry in Canada as described in the proposed Voluntary Code of Conduct for the Debit and Credit Card Industry in Canada issued by Finance Canada. Possible legislation to regulate the payments industry in Canada, either designating the credit card companies under the Canadian Payments Act, or a similar legislative proposal. Implementation of certain provisions of "Transparency, Balance and Choice: Canada’s Credit Card and Debit Card Systems" - Report of the Senate Committee on Banking Trace and Commerce.
• Consumer Product Safety Act with respect to business confidentiality provisions and recall provisions
• Copyright Act - with respect to possible changes introducing levies on blank media, digital rights management technology, parallel imports; changes to "notice and takedown" regulations contained within existing copyright legilsation; lobbying for exceptions for photo finishers.

Policies or Program

• Maintaining the current de minimis level for goods entering Canada.
• RCC is interested in seeing the elimination of import duties that still exist on finished goods.
• RCC is interested in working with government to see regulations related to food safety and consumer product safety harmonizes with similar regulations that exist in the united states.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• International Trade - Request for Tarriff Relief for Retail Goods

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

The lobbyist has arranged or expects to arrange one or more meetings on behalf of the client between a public office holder and any other person in the course of this undertaking.

Government Institutions

• Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Senate of Canada
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)

Address:
1881 Yonge Street, Suite 800
Toronto, ON  M4S 3C4
Canada

Telephone number: 416-922-6678
Web address: http://www.retailcouncil.org/

Client representative

Susie Grynol, Vice President

Parent Company Information

Retail Council of Canada / Conseil canadien du commerce de détail is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.

Business address:
66 Queen Street, Suite 300
Ottawa, ON  K1P 5C6
Canada

Telephone number: 613-233-8906
Fax number: 613-230-2669