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Lobbying by DEMOCRACY WATCH: its registrations, its lobbyists, the bills it has named and every meeting it has reported with federal office holders since November 2021.

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DEMOCRACY WATCH

Meetings this Parliament
0
With MPs
0
Since Nov 2021
0
Active registrations
1

Bills they've lobbied on

Named in their own descriptions of meetings or of their registration. Their words are quoted below each bill.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Jun 5, 2026

Filed by Duff Conacher, COORDINATOR

Lobbyists

  • Duff Conacher · COORDINATOR

Institutions they may lobby: Competition Bureau Canada (COBU), Elections Canada, Finance Canada (FIN), House of Commons, Justice Canada (JC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Senate of Canada, Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

What they're lobbying on (15)
  • Advocating changes to the federal Bank Act to protect consumers from excessive fees and interest rates, and to establish stronger bank accountability measures, complaint-resolution systems, and penalties to ensure banks treat all customers fairly and well.
  • Advocating changes to the Lobbying Act, and the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct, to prevent, prohibit and penalize secret, unethical lobbying, and to strengthen the enforcement powers, mandate and requirements for the Commissioner of Lobbying.
  • Advocating changes to the Parliament of Canada Act to restrict the power of the Prime Minister to prorogue Parliament, and to define what constitutes a vote of confidence, and to set out rules concerning who has the right to govern after an election, and what happens after a vote of confidence, and changes to the Canada Elections Act to fix election dates.
  • Advocating changes to the Canada Elections Act (Bill C-25 of Parliament 45-1), and the Parliament of Canada Act, to restrict the powers of party leaders to choose election candidates and riding association executives, and to control political party caucuses and MPs in their caucus, and to prohibit party leaders from choosing members of House of Commons Committees.
  • Advocating changes to the federal Financial Administration Act, Auditor General Act, and Parliament of Canada Act to strengthen the government procurement rules, and the powers of the Auditor General, Procurement Ombudsman, and the Parliamentary Budget Officer to enforce these laws, including adding the power to penalize violations.
  • Advocating changes to stop foreign interference (Bill C-70 of the 44-1 Parliament; Bill C-25 of the 45-1 Parliament, the Canada Elections Act, the Lobbying Act, the Conflict of Interest Act, the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators, the Parliament of Canada Act, the RCMP Act, and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act).
  • Advocating changes to the Constitution of Canada to abolish the Senate of Canada.
  • Advocating changes to strengthen the federal whistleblower protection law and enforcement system for both government employees (the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act) and employees of all federally regulated businesses (under the Aeronautics Act, Bank Act, Broadcasting Act, Canadian Business Corporations Act, Canada Labour Code, Fisheries Act, Food and Drugs Act, Forestry Act, Insurance Companies Act, Mining Act, Nuclear Energy Act, Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, Trust and Loan Companies Act, and Telecommunications Act).
  • Advocating changes to remove excessive secrecy loopholes from the federal Access to Information Act, and changes to the Act to strengthen the overall open government system, and to strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner to enforce the Act, including adding the power to penalize violators of the Act.
  • Advocating changes to the Canada Elections Act (Bill C-25 of the 45-1 Parliament) to limit political donations and loans to a level an average voter can afford, and to require disclosure of all donations and loans before voters vote, and to limit third-party spending to an amount based on the number of voters that supports each third party, and to prohibit lobbyists from fundraising, campaigning or doing other favours for politicians they lobby or will lobby in the future.
  • Advocating changing the Canada Elections Act (Bill C-25 of Parliament 45-1), and the ethics laws that apply to politicians, their staff and government officials, and lobbyists (Conflict of Interest Act, Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators, Lobbying Act, and the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector), to prohibit everyone who participates in any federal political process, policy-making process, election or by-election from making false claims (including false election promises), and to prevent MPs from switching parties between elections, and to establish fines for all false claims, and to establish a fully independent false claims enforcement system.
  • Advocating changes to close unethical loopholes in the federal Conflict of Interest Act, and the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, and the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators, and to strengthen the enforcement powers of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, and the Senate Ethics Officer, including adding the power to penalize violators.
  • Advocating changes to the RCMP Act to establish an independent appointment process and structural independence for the RCMP Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners and heads of every division of the RCMP, and the appointment processes for Officers of Parliament, and the heads of every federal agency, board, commission and tribunal that enforces any federal law.
  • Advocating changes to the federal Judges Act to make the federal judicial appointment process fully independent.
  • Advocating for a statute to establish an independent appointment process for the Governor General of Canada.

Registration 780103-12285-10. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

No meetings reported since November 2021.

From the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying's open data, published November 5, 2026. Reports cover oral, arranged meetings with designated public office holders since November 22, 2021; lobbyists file them by the 15th of the following month. Names of MPs are matched to the current House of Commons, and bills are linked when the lobbyist's own description makes clear which bill it means. Contains information licensed under the Open Data Licence Agreement — Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying. Licence. PolitiKit is independent and is not endorsed by the Commissioner of Lobbying.