‘Over-prudent’ Breakfast Club of Canada removes hundreds of superfluous lobbying reports

Lawyer and Lobbying Act adviser W. Scott Thurlow says the lobbying commissioner ‘bends over backwards’ to educate organizations about the rules.

Named in 125 communications reports as of Oct. 30, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, is the most lobbied minister in the government. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, centre, was fifth with 72 reports, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand rounds off the top 10 with 48. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

November 1, 2023

The Breakfast Club of Canada says “over-prudence” led it to submit nearly 350 superfluous communications reports to the federal lobbying registry since the beginning of 2022, but a Lobbying Act compliance expert says that while it may be a minor infraction, a “willful ...

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