Lobbying in an election year: risks and rewards

The next year will also see some shakeups within the industry as consulting firms and organizations with in-house GR departments anticipate and possibly adjust to a change in government, and staffers move into the private sector both before and after the writ is dropped.

Some lobbyists are eyeing an election year as an unmissable opportunity to influence policy for years to come, but others are advising clients to take cover, subscribing to former prime minister Kim Campbell’s unfortunate aphorism about election campaigns not being the t...

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