Loophole allows ministers to lobby before cooling-off period ends

When then federal defence minister Doug Young was tossed out of office in June 1997, defeated by Acadian NDP MP Yvon Godin, he didn't exactly let the grass grow under his feet. Within weeks of the election, he was back in Ottawa, and had established Summa Strategies Inc., which has quickly become...

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