An update of the Lobbying Act is long overdue, says Commissioner of Lobbying Nancy Bélanger
The lobbying watchdog says lobbying of ministers, MPs and federal officials is going unchecked and unnoticed under the current rules, and a more robust regime is needed to impose “transparency by default.”
Scribbled in the margins of her well-thumbed copy of the Lobbying Act are notes on potential improvements to make interactions with policy-makers more transparent. “I do not understand the logic … that if you go work for a corporation, you can do a few phone calls but if you work for an organization, you can’t,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense.”
Ms. Bélanger wants more flexibility in the penalties for breaking the lobbying rules, with a sliding scale of sanctions. Now, a lobbyist who an investigation finds has flouted the rules either faces no penalties or must be reported to the RCMP.
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