At issue are revelations by a senior bureaucrat at Thursday’s Finance committee meeting that WE sent two \u0027unsolicited\u0027 proposals to the federal government
The letter from the Conservative MPs asks the commissioner “whether anyone in the WE organization ought to have registered to lobby public office holders, but failed to do so.”Article content continued
The Lobbying Act of Canada demands that an organization registers communications with government if it meets what is referred to as “the 20-per-cent rule”. Basically, if the total amount of time spent working on a preparing or actively lobbying by employees in a defined period is worth at least 20 per cent of the working hours of one employee, they must all register their communications with the government.
“They have sent essentially two multiple page reports over less than a month. And you can think that took more than four-and-a-half days for a single individual to write down. If that’s the case, they should have registered because essentially they are operating as in-house lobbyists for their own organization,” Trebbi noted.Article content continued
Up first was Brenda Shanahan, who stressed that it was not the committee’s role to “investigate politicians and their families” or to sully people’s reputation.Article content continued
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