Tag: Lobbyists

When I first expanded my Pork Barrel study to include audits of individual programs, I said I’d start by working through Minister Diane Finley’s increasingly incompetent HRSDC first. Since then, however, my attention was piqued by a press release claiming that FedDev Ontario, which is dedicated to promoting small business

Someone has to continue to bear witness on this, and it will be me. We have now reached the three-month mark since it was reported that the Conflict of Interest Commissioner had completed an investigation into illegal lobbying by former Harper regime insider Bruce Carson, subsequently an oilpatch advocate and

I’ve been watching the Canadian lobbyist registry for about a month now, as part of my ongoing Lobbyist Tracker project. So far, I’ve highlighted the hypocrisy of the Harper regime in complaining about “foreign environmentalists” at the pipeline inquiry while tolerating legions of foreign influence-purchasers in Ottawa, and the entirely

Alternative title: how many degrees of separation are there between Ontario anti-wind activists and medical quackery advocates? Most of my trawling through the federal disclosure records and databases is simply menial drudgery. But there are occasional bright glimmers of something interesting and even humorous. One of those is Trueman Tuck,

In response to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s recent temper tantrum about “foreign billionaire socialists hijacking” the pipeline hearings, I reactivated my Lobbyist Watch project, which tracks the burgeoning lobbying sector in Ottawa. Ottawa has a love-hate relationship with this sector. Harper claims to hate it, but they still manage

It’s interesting to chart the official outrage over environmental groups that have taken money from foreign donors and now oppose a Canadian pipeline as part of an international anti-Canadian conspiracy (don’t ask me, ask Minister Joe Oliver). It’s even more interesting to see their studious unconcern about a more routine