What is a lobbyist anyway?
As a retort to the Conservatives proposed Federal Accountability Act, Minister Scott Brison claimed that Stephen Harper was an unregistered lobbyist for the National Citizens Coalition. …Federal Public Works Minister Scott Brison alleged that Harper’s history as an unregistered lobbyist makes him an unlikely booster of increased accountability, “given that Harper operated for four years as an unregistered lobbyist as head of the National Citizens’ Coalition.” The problem is that this is nonsense and pretty much everybody knows it. Here is how the NCC has responded. …Brison today called the NCC a `lobby group, and accused current Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper of being an `unregistered lobbyist when he headed our group, says Gerry Nicholls. Both statements are false and malicious. Brison should apologize to us and to our supporters. Nicholls says the NCC does not lobby politicians. We are a non-profit organization that promotes more freedom and less government through adve
