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Trade, agriculture, innovation bureaucrats are most lobbied

Frédéric Seppey, chief agricultural negotiator, Steve Verheul, chief NAFTA negotiator, and Paul Halucha, assistant deputy minister of the industry sector at ISED, round out the top three.

Chief NAFTA negotiator Steve Verheul is the second most-lobbied bureaucrat so far in 2018, which lobbyists say was unsurprising given the ongoing talks about the agreement with the United States and Mexico.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

August 1, 2018

The country's most-lobbied federal bureaucrats so far this year have their hands on trade, agriculture, and innovation files, according to statistics from the federal lobbyists' registry, with top officials at Trade, Environment Canada, and Innovation, Science, and E...

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