If the legislation ain’t broke …

If changes must be made to the Lobbying Act, the one area that needs a lot of work is the section relating to designated public office holders.

Cabinet staffers are pictured at a March 2020 ministerial briefing on COVID-19 in the West Block. While there should be a limit placed on the ability of certain high-ranking public figures to interact with government once they leave office, we can’t agree that all DPOHs should be treated the same, writes W. Scott Thurlow.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY W. SCOTT THURLOW

January 20, 2021

The federal Lobbying Act is (past) due for its legislatively mandated parliamentary review. Again. Let me tell you why Parliament need not spend too much time on this: it works fine. The act, and the resulting registry, conspicuously publish the who’s who of government engagement at the federal le...

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