‘Everyone wants to weigh in’: MPs, ministers with innovation, resource, environment files top 2017 lobbying list

While politicians attached to key ministries clearly topped the list last year, some Liberal backbenchers surprised observers with their popularity while oppositions MPs figured lower on the list.

The most-lobbied MPs of 2017 clockwise from left: David Lametti, parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, parliamentary secretary to the environment minister, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, Liberal MP Francis Drouin, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, file

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

January 31, 2018

The cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries handling the innovation, natural resources, and environment files swept the top 10 most lobbied MPs of 2017, with innovation right hand David Lametti fielding the most communications with stakeholders by far. ...

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