Municipal lobbying and lobbyist registration Save article Remove saved article

The Ghuergis/Jaffir affair has brought lobbying to the forefront once again at the federal level. Ottawa is awash in scandal, but is that of interest or concern to municipal officials? It should be, for all levels of government may be subject to lobbying and to influence peddling. The worst fears about lobbying are that it embodies private deals secretly made through inappropriate means. Lobbying’s legitimacy hinges on how it has been done and how open