Two types of access: the influential lobbyist and the public´s

MPs should come forward with their accounts of what the 4,611 registered efforts by lobbyists targeting them are all about. The Access to Information Act doesn´t cover Parliament.

One access to information coordinator used to say that it would be a lot easier to find out what was really going in Ottawa and government if you were a fly on the wall at Cabinet discussions. Assuming Cabinet ministers are still allowed to talk—just because almost everybody else in Ottawa ...

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