GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Advocating on your behalf
In 2019, CIQS hired a consultant to conduct an environmental scan of government officials and staff to ascertain their understanding of the quantity surveying profession and familiarity with CIQS and its designations. CIQS followed up by hiring an Ottawa-based government and public relations firm to create and implement an official plan to advocate the benefits of having a Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) as a member of the team for every stage of a government project tender process.
Beginning in the fall of 2020, the CIQS external relations committee has implemented phase one of the advocacy plan, resulting in several meetings (virtually due to the pandemic), with federal government officials, such as:
- Wayne Easter, MP for Malpeque, PEI and Chair of the Finance Committee
- Steven MacKinnon, MP for Gatineau
- Claire Churchill Smith, Parliamentary Assistant to Maninder Sidhu, MP for Brampton East
- Kate Proctor, Senior Policy Advisor - Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
- Michael Kram, MP for Regina-Wascana
- Gerald Soroka, MP for Yellowhead
- Nathan Bessner, Policy and Atlantic Advisor, Infrastructure Canada