POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Gomery, Sentenced, Sponsorship Scandal
21 Mar 2017
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Lobbying: money and power after prostitution: both professions have image problems. Lobbying is sometimes described as the world"s second oldest profession, Lobbying act (cid:498)a person is lobbying when he or she, for payment, on behalf office holder and another person(cid:499) Justice gomery lobbying described as (cid:498)a burgeoning part of our political system(cid:499) There are no innocents in political lobbying. Access and influence are the: a lobbyist who get his client"s case in front of the right bureaucrat or politician and persuades them to accept the client"s position can become very prosperous very quickly. The federal government moved to rein in lobbyists back in 1989 with the passage of the lobbyists registration act (lra). now renamed the. Lobbying act, the created a lobbyists" registry administered by a. Registrar of lobbyists: after 1989, anyone who wanted to lobby the federal government, its politicians or bureaucrats, had to sign up.
