Here’s the news we covered this week:

The Lobby Monitor spoke with Chris Benedetti, managing partner at Sussex Strategy Group, about the firm’s acquisition of Cumberland Strategy. In order to keep pace with increasing client demand, the firm needed to “go deeper, go broader, and be able to keep pace with what our clients' challenges and demands and opportunities might be,” said Benedetti. “That's a big part of the rationale for this move, as well, and we're continuing to seek out those opportunities. We think that the landscape for doing government relations, communications, public affairs and advisory services work in the future is going to be robust and we want to be ready to meet our client needs and surpass their expectations.” 

U.S.-based Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company submitted the highest number of communication reports – 10 – during the week of July 31. The corporation seeks to “comment on Canada’s position with respect to US Inflation Reduction Act’s transferable credits and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development pillar [two] treatment,” according to its registry file. A total of 133 reports were submitted last week.

In this week’s registrations, Magneto Investments LP is joining the federal lobbyists’ registry for the first time. The organization is responsible for the Dumont Nickel Project and is seeking financial support for the project. Kema Joseph, a consultant with Crestview Strategy, is representing the organization’s file on the registry.

First-time registrant Équité Association, an organization focusing on insurance fraud, hired Sussex Strategy Group consultants Devin McCarthy and Ingrid Ravary-Konopka to represent it on the Hill. The organization wants to discuss the privacy provisions of Bill C-27, Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, and raise awareness about insurance fraud and vehicle theft in Canada, according to the consultants’ registry files. 

In new registrations, Diabetes Canada has added three PAA Advisory consultants, Tara Mazurk, Noah Niznick, and Matthew Larventz, to represent it on the registry. The consultants will advocate for federal funding for the Framework for Diabetes in Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Strategy, and diabetes research in general, according to the consultants’ registry files. 

New Registry

Based on a search of the federal lobbyists' registry on August 11 at 8:55 a.m. ET.

New Registrations

Reactivations