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Quebec commissioner calls for strengthening of lobby laws
On the same day the federal lobbying watchdog appealed to Ottawa to provide more funding, the Quebec lobbying commissioner echoed calls by his predecessors and beckoned the provincial government to strengthen, expand and simplify the province’s lobby laws. Continue reading
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Four charged with lobbying offenses
A week after the Quebec Lobbyists’ Commissioner implored the provincial government to strengthen, expand and simplify the province’s lobby laws, and on the eve of his retirement, four lobbyists were charged with infringing the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act. Continue reading
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Quebec lobbyists commissioner appeals for tougher legislation
Talk is cheap. So says François Casgrain, Quebec’s lobbyists commissioner, who will be retiring by the end of the month after an eight-year term due to health reasons. Casgrain, disappointed but not bitter, chastised Quebec politicians of all stripes for failing to bolster, expand and simplify the province’s lobby laws. Four successive provincial governments promised… Continue reading
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