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Fri, 2020-01-31 (All day)
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Here’s a look back at the news we covered this week:

New lobbying rules will be in force in British Columbia on May 4, and Kyle Morrow, an associate at law firm Fasken, recommends that businesses and organizations in the province begin to prepare for the change.

The updated rules will include a ban on most gift-giving between lobbyists and public office holders. In-house lobbyists will also be required to register with the province’s lobbyists’ registrar within 10 days of their first communication with government officials.

Morrow said these changes, among others, would make British Columbia’s lobbying regime one of the strictest in North America.

Democracy Watch was in the Federal Court of Appeal on Jan. 28 to challenge the appointments of Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Bélanger and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. The case was dismissed, and Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, told The Lobby Monitor he intends to apply for an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada.

Conacher argued that the two commissioners were appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet without sufficient consultation with opposition parties. In the appeals court, Judge J.D. Denis Pelletier said he had not been persuaded that the cabinet’s view for these appointments was unreasonable.

Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May joined her fellow Green MP Jenica Atwin and Paul Manly for a press conference on Jan 28 to discuss what they considered to be a problem of corporate influence over government decision-making.

May suggested that the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying should have greater independence and increased funding to improve the enforcement of lobbying laws. She also said that the office should increase its efficiency.

Atwin said that there is a “critical flaw” in the power extended to lobbyists, and argued that handfuls of corporations have more powerful voices when it comes to lobbying than large numbers of the public.

Environmental Defence Canada was the most active organization in terms of communication reports posted to the federal lobbyists’ registry between Jan 20 and Jan. 26. The advocacy group, registered with its executive director Tim Gray, filed eight communication reports in that time frame.

Two other organizations interested in discussing the environment, both from Alberta, also posted one communication report each last week. Those were Nauticol, a petrochemical company, and ATCO, a provider of electricity and natural gas that is also based.

In new registrations, health-focused organizations were the most prominent first-time registrations between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31. Four companies and organizations interested in discussing health made their first appearances on the registry this week. Among those is the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB), which engaged consultant Kristina Proulx of Temple Scott Associates on Jan. 24, followed by Proulx’s colleague, consultant Don Moors, on Jan. 28. The CSMB is advocating for the federal government to implement recommendations laid out in the Naylor Report, which was released in 2017. The report, produced by a government-appointed independent advisory board, was a review of the level of government support for scientific research in Canada.

The two consultants will communicate with the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Innovation, Finance and Environment, as well as with MPs and senators.

There are currently 1,132 organizations and companies active on the registry with an interest in discussing health. The number of filed communication reports related to health has been rising since October, reaching 106 reports in December. However, this is still well below the 209 health-related communication reports filed in June before Parliament dissolved in anticipation of the federal election in October.
 

New registry files posted between 2020-01-27 and 2020-01-31

Organization, Corporation or Client Name Registrant Name
Centre facilitant la recherche et l'innovation dans les organisations (CEFRIO) Charles Robert, LEVESQUE Strategies & Public Affairs / LEVESQUE Stratégies & Affaires publiques
Educ'Alcool Vincent Fournier Gosselin, TACT Intelligence-conseil
Wipro Solutions Canada Limited Gordon Hunter, Hunter Strategies Inc.
Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences / Société canadienne pour les biosciences moléculaires DON MOORS, Temple Scott Associates Inc.
Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences / Société canadienne pour les biosciences moléculaires Kristina Proulx, Temple Scott Associates Inc.
Cardiol Therapeutics ROBERT EVERSHED, PROSPECTUS ASSOCIATES IN CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT INC
Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ) Sean Casey, Global Public Affairs
Anbaric Management Canada Inc. / Gestion Anbaric Canada Inc. Edward Krapels, President and Secretary

Based on a search of the federal lobbyists' registry on Jan. 31 at 8:45 a.m.

 

New registrations posted between 2020-01-27 and 2020-01-31

Organization, Corporation or Client Name Registrant Name
Dairy Farmers of Ontario Adam Petherick
Dairy Farmers of Ontario Vicky Morrison
Dairy Farmers of Ontario Don Gordon
Dairy Farmers of Ontario John Wynands
Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders Stephanie Levee, 3Sixty Public Affairs Inc.
Canadian Alliance of Student Associations / Alliance canadienne des associations etudiantes Montana Kent, Impact Public Affairs
Emergent BioSolutions Canada Inc. BRAD LAVIGNE, Counsel Public Affairs Inc.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Canada / Société canadienne de Sclérose latérale amyotrophique Amélie Gadient, Hill + Knowlton Strategies / Hill + Knowlton Stratégies
Palo Alto Networks Inc. Dennis Burnside, Capital Hill Group / Groupe Capital Hill
Motion Picture Association - Canada / Association cinematographique - Canada Bridget Howe, Counsel Public Afairs Inc.
Motion Picture Association - Canada / Association cinematographique - Canada Sheamus Murphy, Counsel Public Affairs Inc.
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame / Panthéon des sports canadiens TIM BARBER, BLUESKY STRATEGY GROUP INC.
Woodside Energy International (Canada) Ltd Pierre Cyr, FleishmanHillard HighRoad Corp
ARC Financial Corp. Hugh McFadyen, Longview Communications Inc.
McDonald's Restaurants of Canada John Betts, President & CEO
African Development Bank Trisha Rinneard, Wellington Advocacy
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. / Placements Vanguard Canada Inc. Scott Munnoch, Temple Scott Associates Inc.
Intact Financial Corporation Danya Vered, StrategyCorp Inc
Rafael USA Inc Andre Deschamps, CFN Consultants
QinetiQ Canada Operations Ltd. Andre Deschamps, CFN Consultants
Peraton Canada Corporation Andre Deschamps, CFN Consultants
MAGELLAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION Andre Deschamps, CFN Consultants
Edmonton Global Hunter Doubt, Global Public Affairs
Advanced Biofuels Canada / Biocarburants avancés Canada CHARLES BIRD, Earnscliffe Ontario Inc
Domtar Inc. Bridget Howe, Counsel Public Afairs Inc.
HP Canada Co. Claude Morris, Edelman
Blue J Legal Inc. Claude Morris, Edelman
Children First Canada Andrea Beltran, Global Public Affairs
CANADIAN ENERGY PIPELINE ASSOCIATION / association canadienne de pipelines d'energie Fernando Melo, Global Public Affairs
Fertilizer Canada Robynne Anderson, Emerging ag inc.
Bombardier Inc. Daniel Desjardins

Reactivations posted between 2020-01-27 and 2020-01-31

Organization, Corporation or Client Name Registrant Name
Canadian Nuclear Association / Association nucléaire canadienne Matthew Trapp, Hill+Knowlton Strategies / Hill+Knowlton Stratégies
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada / Association canadienne des prospecteurs et entrepreneurs Matthew Trapp, Hill+Knowlton Strategies / Hill+Knowlton Stratégies
TRANSPORT NANUK INC. FRANCIS SCHILLER, Public Interests Research and Communications Inc.
Canadian Coalition Against Terror Nick Zahn
Carcross/Tagish First Nation Lisa Kirbie, Blackbird Strategies, Ltd.
H&R Block Canada, Inc. Matthew Trapp, Hill+Knowlton Strategies / Hill+Knowlton Stratégies
ARC Financial Corp. JEFF SMITH, Longview Communications and Public Affairs

 

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