Canada Lobbying Meetings Database

388,557 monthly communication reports filed by registered lobbyists for oral, arranged communications (meetings, calls and video calls) with ministers, MPs, senators, political staff and senior federal officials from Jul 2, 2008 to Nov 6, 2026, 44,060 of them in the latest 12 months.

01The Most-Lobbied Federal Ministers

Ministers ranked by the number of registry reports that identify them in a ministerial role, going by the title the lobbyist wrote in each report (not checked against official dates of office). Each count is one report naming that person; a report that names several officials counts once for each of them, and two reports about the same event are not merged.

Titles are the most recent ministerial titles each person was given in the reports, as the lobbyist wrote them. Latest 12 months = Nov 6, 2025 to Nov 6, 2026. Recent weeks are always incomplete, because reports are filed up to six weeks after the communication.

02The Most-Lobbied MPs

MPs ranked by the reports that list them as an MP, including opposition critics and shadow ministers, but not as a minister or parliamentary secretary. MPs and senators were added to the list of designated public office holders in 2010, so they appear from then on.

03The Most-Lobbied Senators

04Prime Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, Deputy Ministers and Staff

Most reports do not involve elected people at all. Deputy and assistant deputy ministers run the departments, and political staff in ministers' offices and the Prime Minister's Office decide much of what reaches the minister.

All time. Deputy ministers includes associate and assistant deputy ministers. Political staff means people whose title places them in a minister's or leader's office, such as chiefs of staff and policy advisors.

05The Organizations That Lobby the Most

Companies, industry associations, unions, charities and other groups, ranked by the number of reports filed on their behalf, by their own staff or a hired consultant.

06The Lobbyists

The person who filed each report: the consultant lobbyist, or for in-house lobbying the senior officer responsible for the organization's registration.

07What They Lobby About

Each report lists one or more subject areas from the registry's own list, so the totals add up to more than the number of reports. Click a subject for who lobbies on it.

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08The Most-Lobbied Departments

The institution each official worked for, as named in the reports, for reports in the latest 12 months.

09Reports by Year

The registry starts on July 2, 2008, when the Lobbying Act took effect, so 2008 is a half year. The latest year is incomplete, and reports can be filed weeks after the communication.

10The Latest Reports

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