May’s most in-demand office holders in Ottawa
May’s most in-demand office holders in Ottawa
Mark Holland, Jean-Yves Duclos, Filomena Tassi, Ahmed Hussen, Randy Hoback (Prince Albert), Kyle Seeback (Dufferin Caledon), Karen Vecchio (Elgin Middlesex London), Blaine Calkins (Red Deer Lacombe)
Lobbying is the grease that lubricates the gears of our country’s legislative and regulatory machinery, shaping the contours of laws and rules that govern the business environment. That is why Queen Street Analytics provides monthly updates on the most lobbied Ministers, MPs and civil servants.
Table of Contents:
May’s most lobbied ministers
May’s most lobbied MPs
May’s most lobbied DPOHs, by agency
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1. May’s most lobbied ministers
Exhibit 1 lists current cabinet ministers with the number of meetings and communications they took in May, and, for context, the trailing twelve month (TTM) average of meetings they had in a typical month between April 2023 and April 2024.
Different ministers will be relevant to different readers, but at a high level, it’s worth noting most ministers had quiet months in May, with only Mark Holland, Jean-Yves Duclos, Filomena Tassi, and Ahmed Hussen standing out with more meetings than usual.
2. May’s Most Lobbied MPs
Exhibit 2 lists the MPs with the most lobby communications and meetings in May, including their riding and committees they sit on. (TTM again reporting on the previous twelve-month average of meetings.)
Indicative of the large number of legislative initiatives that were gearing up for a vote before the summer break,
one pattern that stands out in Exhibit 2 is the large number of MPs who took considerably more meetings than usual in May, compared to Exhibit 1, where most ministers took fewer than usual meetings in May.
3. May’s Most Lobbied DPOHs, by Agency
The largest number of lobby-communications occurs at the level of the bureaucracy, with designated public office holders (DPOHs) that may not be very well-known outside of Ottawa. Exhibit 3 lists the 30 busiest DPOHs in May, organized by their agencies. TTM reports on their previous twelve-month meetings-average (TTM) and the Rank-field ranks them according to the number of meetings taken in May.
Paul Halucha, Deputy Secretary at the Privy Council was the busiest DPOH for the third month running, showing his importance in the Privy Council, where he is now receiving increasing help from Chris Padfield.
Breaking the DPOHs down by whom they met with is too much information to fit into this newsletter format, but that information can readily be gleaned from LobbyIQ’s dashboards for individual DPOHs.
Exhibit 4 for example shows a partial snapshot for Ben Chin’s dashboard, Ben being the most senior advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
For readers who want to know which officials to talk to on a specific issue, LobbyIQ’s “who to talk to” recommender-engine offers the
capabilities to guide outreach. For example, the attachment below shows an issue dashboard for Greenwashing, listing the MPs that most engaged with the issue (on p10), as well as the DPOHs that got lobbied the most on it (on p14).
This concludes today’s issue on May’s most lobbied ministers, MPs, and public office holders.
Next week, we dive into our review of June’s GR landscape.