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A Lobby Registry, also named Lobbyist Registry, Register for Lobby Transparency or Registry of Lobbyists is a public database, in which information about lobbying actors and key data about their actions can be accessed. Its aim is to gain transparency about possible influences of interest groups on Parliamentarians and their staff.
Manitoba's Office of the Lobbyist Registrar, New Brunswick's Office of the Integrity Commissioner, Newfoundland and Labrador's Commissioner of Lobbyists, Nova Scotia's Registry of Lobbyists, Ontario's Office of the Integrity Commissioner, Prince Edward Island's Lobbyists Registry, Saskatchewan's Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Québec's ...
The legislation that regulates the lobbying industry is found in the lobbying act. The Lobbying Act began as the Lobbyists Registration Act, which came into force in 1989 after approximately 20 years of interest expressed through private member's bills. The motivation of the act was to provide a record of who the lobbyists on the federal level ...
The Office of the Integrity Commissioner (French: Bureau du commissaire à l’intégrité) for the province of Ontario is the office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario responsible for preventing ethics violations before they occur for members of the Legislative Assembly.
The Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada is an officer of Parliament of Canada who is responsible for achieving the objectives of the Lobbying Act that came into force in 2008. The office replaced the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists. [3] The Lobbying Act mandates this office and its commissioner, who holds office for seven years.
Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a Kitchener, Ontario-based grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement—created in June 2001—that calls for the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, as part of electoral reform in Canada. [14] [15] Friends of Canadian Broadcasting political
The Century Initiative [a] [3] is a Canadian lobby group [4] [5] [6] that aims to increase Canada's population to 100 million by 2100. [7] This includes increasing the population of megaregions, which are interlocking areas with more than one city centre and a typical population of 5 million or more (e.g., the Greater Toronto Area, Greater Vancouver, and the National Capital Region).
According to the Federal lobbyist registry, from January to September 2012, the Canadian Bankers Association had 131 contacts with federal officials to discuss issues such as mortgage insurance, identity theft laws, do-not-call list, corporate income tax, and accounting rules, making it the lobby group with the second most contacts that year. [5]