What this page is.
Every government in a parliamentary democracy is influenced by lobbyists. The Canadian system is unusual in that it publishes the influence in real time: the Lobbying Act requires registered lobbyists to file a Communication Report within 15 days of every "oral, arranged communication" with any "designated public office holder" (cabinet ministers, senior officials, MPs, senior staff). The full ledger is searchable on lobbycanada.gc.ca.
What this page does is read the ledger as a single record — the same way the funding flow page reads Public Accounts and the Bill C-233 page reads Hansard. The numbers below are aggregations from the Commissioner's registry, the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner's sponsored-travel reports, and the OAG's captured-regulator audits. Every aggregate links back to the source.
The headline numbers.
Top firms on the federal registry (running totals).
A short list of the most active lobbying organisations filing communication reports with the Commissioner of Lobbying. Numbers are running totals as of the latest registry pull.
The post-October 2023 CIJA surge — month by month.
A single advocacy organisation's monthly registered communication count, before and after October 7, 2023. Bars are scaled to November 2023's peak (42 meetings).
The peak in Mar 2024 is the Bill C-233 vote month — bill-c233.html. The bill was defeated 22–295 in the same month CIJA logged 33 federal communications. Cause and correlation are not the same. The numbers are contemporaneous.
Sponsored travel — the named MPs.
Under the Conflict of Interest Act, Members of Parliament who accept "sponsored travel" worth more than $200 must report it to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. The reports are public. 73 sitting MPs have accepted CIJA-sponsored Israel trips totalling $894,000+ in disclosed value across the most recent reporting cycles. (The disclosed amount is the trip cost; the access value is presumably greater than the dollar amount, but only the dollar amount is on the public record.)
The named per-MP roll, with disclosed dollar amount and trip date, is in the Sponsored Travel Register maintained by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. The data is reproduced on cija-lobbying.html for cross-reference.
The single-session aggregation pattern.
A single Lobbying Communication Report can name multiple lobbied officials. CIJA's October 21, 2025 entry on the registry names 37 MPs + 1 senator + the PMO Deputy Chief of Staff as recipients of one simultaneous lobbying communication. That is one event, one form, one half-page on the registry. It is also, in practice, an entire caucus reception.
The aggregation pattern means the raw "communication count" understates the actual number of officials lobbied. The 2,156 communication number is the floor, not the ceiling.
The capture mechanism, step-by-step.
The Government Flow page Flow C shows the capture loop visually. Step 2 of that loop is lobbying:
- Capture inputs (Step 1). Senior officials accumulate ties to WEF, Brookfield, defence primes, CIJA, before taking elected office. — carney-conflicts.html, century-initiative.html.
- Lobbying (Step 2 — THIS PAGE). The registered lobbying communications — by which the captured corridor is kept warm.
- Appointments (Step 3). Regulators, tribunals, ombudsmen, the bench. — appointments-registry.html.
- Policy (Step 4). MAID expansion, arms exports, the Bill C-233 defeat, media subsidy, Century Initiative target adoption. — bill-c233.html.
- Outcome (Step 5). 76,475 dead. Reserves on boil-water. Veterans offered MAID. — genocide-evidence.html.
The lobbying registry is the closest thing Canada has to a public confession. Every meeting that produced the outcome above has been pre-confessed in writing, with names attached, on a government website.
Why this anchors the Article II frame.
The Convention's Article II intent test asks for means + knowledge + recorded choice. The lobbying ledger is one of the strongest knowledge proofs in the dossier — it documents that elected officials were on continuous, published notice of the policy positions taken by the lobbying class, on every issue that produced the outcome. Knowledge cannot later be denied when the meetings are on a public registry the official's own staff filed.
The ledger does not, on its own, prove genocide. It proves that the Cabinet that produced the outcome was operating with full awareness of the influence pathway. That is the II(c) intent test passed at the knowledge prong.
Pages that connect to this one.
Sources.
- Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada — Registry of Lobbyists. The primary public source. Searchable by registrant, designated public office holder, date, subject matter. Every communication report cited on this page is retrievable here. lobbycanada.gc.ca
- Lobbying Act (R.S.C. 1985, c.44, 4th Supp.). The statute requiring real-time disclosure of every oral, arranged communication with designated public office holders. laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/L-12.4
- Lobbyists' Code of Conduct. The professional-conduct standard the Commissioner enforces. lobbycanada.gc.ca/the-lobbyists-code-of-conduct
- Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner — Sponsored Travel Register. Public reports of all $200+ sponsored MP travel, including CIJA-sponsored Israel trips. The named-MP roll lives here. ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca — Sponsored Travel
- Conflict of Interest Act (S.C. 2006, c.9, s.2). The statute against simultaneous private/public roles and undisclosed gifts. laws-lois.justice.gc.ca — C-36.65
- Office of the Auditor General — Captured-Regulator Audits. AG performance audits documenting where regulator outcomes track lobbyist preferences. oag-bvg.gc.ca
- Project Ploughshares — Canadian Military Exports. Independent analysis cross-referencing Lobbying registry with GAC export-permit data. ploughshares.ca
- The Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star — investigative journalism on the lobbying class. Multiple reporters have built named-individual lobbying databases that supplement the Commissioner's registry by adding context the registry alone does not capture.
- Cross-reference — TENET5 internal pages. cija-lobbying.html (CIJA-specific deep dive), bill-c233.html (the defeated bill the lobbying surge purchased), carney-conflicts.html (the captured-corridor named individual).