{
  "title": "Revolving Door & Procurement Gatekeeper Analysis",
  "generated": "2026-04-07",
  "source": "Commissioner of Lobbying raw CSV exports (57MB)",
  "shared_gatekeepers": {
    "finding": "Multiple defense contractors lobby the same small group of procurement gatekeepers",
    "gatekeepers": [
      {
        "name": "Simon Page",
        "title": "ADM Procurement, PSPC",
        "lobbied_by_pratt_raytheon_iai": 81,
        "lobbied_by_irving": 29,
        "total": 110,
        "role": "Controls federal procurement approvals"
      },
      {
        "name": "Taras Zalusky",
        "title": "Chief of Staff to Defence Minister",
        "lobbied_by_pratt_raytheon_iai": 22,
        "lobbied_by_irving": 57,
        "total": 79,
        "role": "Ministerial gatekeeper for defence procurement"
      },
      {
        "name": "Troy Crosby",
        "title": "ADM Materiel, DND",
        "lobbied_by_pratt_raytheon_iai": 42,
        "role": "Signs off on defence materiel acquisitions"
      }
    ]
  },
  "pratt_profile": {
    "name": "David Pratt",
    "former_role": "Liberal Minister of National Defence (2003-2004)",
    "current_clients": [
      "Raytheon Canada",
      "Raytheon International",
      "Israel Aerospace Industries"
    ],
    "total_communications": 1079,
    "targets_at_dnd": 408,
    "targets_at_pmo": 139,
    "top_target": "Oz Jungic (PMO Policy Advisor) — 82 times",
    "pattern": "Former Defence Minister lobbies his former department 408 times on behalf of foreign arms manufacturers"
  },
  "irving_profile": {
    "name": "James Irving / Irving Shipbuilding",
    "contract": "Canadian Surface Combatants — 4B (largest procurement in Canadian history)",
    "total_communications": 2040,
    "unique_targets": 927,
    "targets_at_dnd": 386,
    "targets_at_pmo": 179,
    "targets_at_finance": 236,
    "notable_target": "Chrystia Freeland (Transport Minister) — 26 times"
  },
  "summary_stats": {
    "defense_lobby_total": "4,000+ communications from defense contractors to government officials",
    "shared_targets": "Multiple contractors target identical procurement gatekeepers",
    "pmo_access": "Combined defense contractor access to PMO: 318+ communications (Pratt 139 + Irving 179)",
    "key_insight": "A former Defence Minister personally lobbying the ADM of Materiel at his former department, on behalf of a foreign state-owned weapons manufacturer, is the definition of the revolving door"
  }
}