Canadian mining companies are desperate.
That’s about the only possible conclusion to be drawn after monitoring the federal lobbying database for more than eight months.
Since the election in October, companies such as Teck Resources, Rio Tinto Canada and Iamgold — mining the likes of gold, copper, uranium, coal and diamonds — have racked up 164 “registered communications.”
Such meetings have involved MPs 78 times, ministers 16 times and chiefs of staffs another 20 times.
Even those impressive efforts pale in comparison to the Mining Association of Canada, which has met with federal officials in 123 separate meetings.
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