Finance Committee chair Easter top non-cabinet-MP target for lobbyists in 2020

Non-cabinet MPs were lobbied nearly 10,000 times in 2020.

Finance Committee chair Wayne Easter, pictured at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance to talk about the ongoing WE Charity scandal on July 28, 2020. Mr. Easter has long been one of the most-lobbied MPs. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY

January 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic kept MPs away from Ottawa for most of the year, but that didn't stop lobbyists from meeting with MPs to try and influence both the government's and the opposition's agenda. Liberal MP and House Finance Committee chair Wayne Easter was lobbied 190 times in 2020, the most for an ...

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