Loophole-filled, weakly enforced lobbying and ethics laws a sad joke

The key question is: will a critical mass of MPs in the current minority Parliament situation work together to pass a bill to finally clean up this unethical mess?

Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Bélanger is pictured ahead of a December 2017 House Ethics Committee meeting. The committee has called for the Lobbying Act to do away with the 20 per cent rule for a decade, writes Duff Conacher. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DUFF CONACHER

January 19, 2022

The federal Lobbying Act and Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct, as well as federal ethics rules in the Conflict of Interest Act, MPs’ and Senators’ ethics codes, and public servants’ code continue to be a collective sad joke because of huge loopholes, fatal flaws, and weak, secretive enforcement by...

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