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Estimates for the number of lobbyists in Canada are at roughly 5000 lobbyists in the federal system as of 2011. Of these 5000, about 84% or 4300 worked within a not-for-profit or a corporation as an "in-house lobbyist", while about 800 worked as "consultant lobbyists", or in firms that sell lobbying services to other organizations on a contract ...
In Canada, the Lobbyists registrars and commissioners network (LRCN) includes the federal Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying as well as some provincial and municipal offices and agencies. [7] As of 2020, participating provinces, territories and municipalities included Alberta's Lobbyist Registry, Office of the Ethics Commissioner, British ...
The Keeping Canada’s Economy & Jobs Growing Act, introduced in October 2011, triggered a phase-out of the per-vote subsidy from 2012-2015. [27] The amount paid out to parties decreased from approximately $2 per vote in 2012 to approximately $0.50 per vote in 2015, the final year of the subsidy. [28] Contribution limits were increased in 2014.
Government debt securities provide a useful measure of government debt as they are a large share of government debt (76.2% in 2020), [13] and are relatively straightforward to measure. By contrast, the second largest debt component, employee pension plan liabilities, [ 13 ] are less easy to value as they depend on employee longevity and the ...
Taxpayer-funded lobbying by local political subdivisions can take two main forms: direct and association. [12] [13] [14] In the first type, local political subdivisions of the state, such as, cities, counties, and school districts, use public funds to contract directly with a lobbyist to lobby on their behalf at the state or federal legislature.
In 2008, debt-to-GDP ratio was 28% with a total federal debt of $458 billion. In 2010, Canada, which had a debt-to-GDP ratio of 77%, was the lowest of all the G7 economies with the United States at 98% and Japan at 227%. [42] Canada's total federal debt continued to increase after the financial crisis.
The comparison isn’t exactly apples-to-apples, as the government can essentially borrow as much as it wants to pay its obligations, while individual Americans must pay their debt or face bankruptcy.
Fossil fuel lobbyists contacted government officials five times more than non-government environmental organizations. [ 52 ] Canada's Lobbyist Act does not require companies to disclose how much money they spend on lobbying the Canadian government, and does not require companies to register lobbyists that interact with government officials who ...