Not Jayson Myers of the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters Canada, that’s for sure. Why, just last month, he was able to set up a meeting with the Prime Minister himself, along with the then freshly shuffled ministers of International Trade and Public Works to discuss business opportunities with – France? really? – as well as manufacturing competitiveness, industrial benefits in federal procurement and support for Canadian exporters.
Not Jayson Myers of the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters Canada, that’s for sure. Why, just last month, he was able to set up a meeting with the Prime Minister himself, along with the then freshly shuffled ministers of International Trade and Public Works to discuss business opportunities with – France? really? – as well as manufacturing competitiveness, industrial benefits in federal procurement and support for Canadian exporters.
So far, that’s the only contact that the PM has had with a registered lobbyist since the communications log database went live over at the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, which was, of course, created by the Conservatives’ boy-those-early-days-of-minority-government-were-fun Federal Accountability Act.
Other listings for PMO officials:
UPDATE: Press gallery colleague and fellow database nerd David Akin uncovers a second meeting between the PM and Buzz Hargrove, of all people, to discuss aboriginal affairs, and – at last – evidence that someone, at least, has met with Guy Giorno: John Furlong, to be precise, director of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.