Amended Federal Accountability Act a blow to GR: lobbyists

Published June 19, 2006

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has given no leeway to the lobbying industry as the government crammed its way through a series of amendments to the Federal Accountability Act last week, an amended bill that lobbyists say is unfair and onerous, and which appears to put relations between the Conservative government and the lobbying industry at a new low.

Prime Minister Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) introduced an amendment to the...