A Vancouver Island recycling company bought a fleet of electric garbage trucks; now it’s lobbying for more electricity so it can actually charge them. A charity for the prevention of human trafficking wants B.C. to adopt a “whole-of-government approach” to tackling the issue. And the Heart and Stroke Foundation wants Saskatchewan to install more automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) across the province to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. 

Those are just some of the insights from the IJF’s roundup of lobbying registrations at the federal level and in every province across Canada. Each week, the IJF publishes data from our four lobbying databases showing who wants laws changed and who is asking for government money. Think of it as your weekly dose of public policy news before it becomes news.