As the festive season approaches, the federal government has announced its own holiday — a tax holiday, that is — but spirits are excluded from the sales tax relief, and distillers want to know why. Telus wants the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to stay the course on a policy that will allow telecoms to sell their access to one another, after cabinet mandated a review over competition concerns. And a Quebec company that just signed a nearly $11 million deal to provide paper bags to the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) wants to ensure Ontario will honour its contract after Doug Ford asked the Crown agency to find a new supplier.

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.