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Lobbyists slipping through cracks of Lobbying Act: commissioner By Aidan Chamandy. Published on Jun 15, 2021 4:11pm Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Bélanger, pictured in December 2017, says the Lobbying Act needs to be updated. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) The latest high-profile investigation to reveal the Lobbying Act’s shortcomings demonstrates that the legislation still needs a parliamentary review, says Canada’s lobbying watchdog. “What we’ve seen in the last year, with the studies that have been made (and) the reports that have been issued, (is that) it is important tha...

OTTAWA — Rob Silver, the husband of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the federal lobbying commissioner. Nancy Belanger says Silver spent about 70 minutes cumulatively talking to public office holders about two different emergency aid programs on behalf of mortgage finance company MCAP. She says MCAP […]

OTTAWA - Rob Silver, the husband of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the federal lobbying commissioner.

Article content OTTAWA – The Conservatives want former PMO and Finance senior staffer Elder Marques to testify in front of the ethics committee on the WE Charity scandal. The Tories hope to summon Marques — who left his job as chief of staff to former Finance Minister Bill Morneau soon after the latter’s resignation last summer — “to testify to his knowledge of conflicts of interest and lobbying,” according to a copy of the motion obtained by National Post. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Conservatives to push for former Morneau ch...

New Cyber Nominees: What’s in Store? After almost three months of silence on key cybersecurity nominations from the White House—which garnered indignation from lawmakers [1] and experts alike—the administration announced its nominees on Monday. The slew of individuals included Chris Inglis for the first-ever national cyber director (NCD), Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and Robert Silvers as undersecretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement [2], National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan described the ...