Lobbyists

Tom Potter

Consultant lobbyist · Blackbird Strategies, Ltd.

Tom Potter of Blackbird Strategies, Ltd. reported 28 meetings with Members of Parliament since October 2025, with 19 MPs on behalf of 8 clients, most often Arctic Research Foundation.

28 MP meetings since October 202519 MPs8 clients at those meetings23 clients registered since January 2025#16 among consultant lobbyists
Former public office: Legislative Assistant, House of Commons, until 2022. As the lobbyist reported it to the registry.

Meetings with MPs

28 communication reports naming a Member of Parliament since October 2025, newest first, with the registrant's own description where one was filed.

DateClientMPs
2026-08-11

Discussing federal skills training and apprenticeship support programming, and the steps that can be taken to better enable training opportunities in Inuit and Northern communities.

Lori Idlout, Ryan Turnbull
2026-08-10

Discussing federal skills training and apprenticeship support programming, and the steps that can be taken to better enable training opportunities in Inuit and Northern communities.

Lori Idlout
2026-05-25
Inuit Heritage Trust

Pursuing federal funding to support construction of Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre.

Lori Idlout
2026-04-23

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Gaétan Malette
2026-04-23

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Lori Idlout
2026-04-01

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Marilène Gill
2026-03-09
Meadow Lake Tribal Council Industrial Investments

Engaging federal decision makers on American duties applied to the import of Canadian softwood lumber products and policies that can help offset the costs of these duties as it also relates to funding for Indigenous-owned and operated businesses in the softwood lumber sector.

Jamie Schmale
2026-02-27

Supporting the SCFRJ in securing adequate, long-term funding that maintains and grows the organization’s healing support programming as well as the organization’s existing and planned public awareness activities.

Marilène Gill
2026-02-25

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Billy Morin, Jamie Schmale
2026-02-25

Advocating for the passage of Bill S-228, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures).

Patricia Lattanzio
2026-02-10

Assist BCAFN in arranging meetings with key decision-makers on BC First Nation community priorities including housing and community infrastructure, justice and policing, fisheries, environmental conservation and climate change.

Will Greaves
2026-02-09

Assist BCAFN in arranging meetings with key decision-makers on BC First Nation community priorities including housing and community infrastructure, justice and policing, fisheries, environmental conservation and climate change.

Elizabeth May
2026-01-22

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Will Greaves
2025-12-09
Meadow Lake Tribal Council Industrial Investments

Engaging federal decision makers on American duties applied to the import of Canadian softwood lumber products and policies that can help offset the costs of these duties as it also relates to funding for Indigenous-owned and operated businesses in the softwood lumber sector.

Shelby Kramp-Neuman
2025-12-04

Meetings with Public Office Holders and elected officials for funding for First Nations environmental priorities and for policy changes to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.

Lori Idlout
2025-12-02

Meetings with Public Office Holders and elected officials for funding for First Nations environmental priorities and for policy changes to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.

Sébastien Lemire
2025-11-28

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Sophie Chatel, Yasmin Adania Veiga
2025-11-19

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Bob Zimmer
2025-11-18

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Sébastien Lemire
2025-11-18

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Salma Zahid
2025-11-18

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Lori Idlout
2025-11-17

Speaking to and meeting with Designated Public Office Holders to discuss the Arctic Research Foundation to create awareness about the Foundation and of the necessity to include scientific research in the Arctic, the need for broadband, and Arctic data management in government priorities.

Ernie Klassen
2025-11-05
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan

Discussing matters related to self-governance with elected officials and designated public office holders to amend MN-S's Agreement to ensure that s. 35 of the Constitution, 1982, is upheld as well as Treaty matters.

Billy Morin
2025-10-28

"Meetings with Public Office Holders and elected officials for funding and policy changes that work to advance economic development opportunities for Ontario First Nations; support educational and language revitalization initiatives; address infrastructure and housing gaps; support Ontario First Nations’ social services; support environmental initiatives; enable Ontario First Nations engagement in the mining sector; promote clean drinking water and water protection; support income assistance and disability support programming; support First Nations police services; address violence against Indigenous women and girls; and support childcare and early learning initiatives. These priorities represent policies that Chiefs of Ontario is advocating for to be included in Budget 2025.”

Wade Grant
2025-10-21

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Leah Gazan
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DateClientMPs
2025-10-21

"Meetings with Public Office Holders and elected officials for funding and policy changes that work to advance economic development opportunities for Ontario First Nations; support educational and language revitalization initiatives; address infrastructure and housing gaps; support Ontario First Nations’ social services; support environmental initiatives; enable Ontario First Nations engagement in the mining sector; promote clean drinking water and water protection; support income assistance and disability support programming; support First Nations police services; address violence against Indigenous women and girls; and support childcare and early learning initiatives. These priorities represent policies that Chiefs of Ontario is advocating for to be included in Budget 2025.”

Leah Gazan
2025-10-20

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Larry Brock
2025-10-20

Meetings with public office holders to advance several of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's policy priorities and funding requests at the federal level including housing and infrastructure development, environmental conservation and climate change, child and family services, and community safety.

Jamie Schmale, Billy Morin

Lobbying is legal and registered. A meeting may be about anything; the subjects are the ones the registrant reported. Counts are communication reports in the federal Registry of Lobbyists that name a Member of Parliament or Parliamentary Secretary, one per report, since October 2025. Registrants have until the 15th of the next month to file, so recent weeks are undercounted.

Names are as the registrants filed them; MPs link to their pages when the name matches a sitting MP. Source: Registry of Lobbyists, Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (lobbycanada.gc.ca). How this is counted: most active lobbyists.