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Why imply that Canada is a corrupt country by making up the title, OP?
Because lobbying is just legalized bribery. And any country that allows it, is corrupt.
Same with party contributions. It's just bribery. We need to ban lobbying, and ban political party contributions and cap election spending equally across the parties.
See the insurance industry. Completely corrupt with government at federal and provincial levels, except those provinces with public insurance.
Not really.
Lawmakers in a democracy can't possibly be experts on all the fields they make laws about. Without any lobbyists at all, they wouldn't know what kinds of laws any organizations (whether for-profit or not) would like to see passed. This would likely cause worse laws to be passed.
Ultimately lobbying is just (parts of) the population attempting to influence what happens in politics, which is what is supposed to happen in a democracy.
In some cases what you say may be true, but not in all.
You’re thinking of an advisor. You pay an advisor, you get paid by a lobbyist.
Lobbyists are not experts. Well maybe only experts in making more money by pushing deregulations. Lobbying sdo not gives advices they try to force policies on politicians
No it fucking isn't! Lobbying is people getting paid to attempt to influence what happens in politics, which is what makes it corrupt.
" the population " can't afford a lobbyist. Corporations can. And that's who gets to make the laws. It is a corrupt system, where politicians are given gifts, and vacations, to vote a certain way.
There's nothing for the people in those talks.
There are lobbyists for non-profits (that you can donate to if you agree with their goals) too.
In the US, the reason corporations hire lobbyists is that it has a ROI that is bigger than most of their main businesses.
And that return comes from tax revenue. So it is much more expensive for us to allow lobbyists.
That "expertise" angle used to make some sense, before we created long distance communication. But today, politicians have staff, and the staff have access to the internet and telephones. If they need an expert, they can just call one.
Again, it would be much cheaper to hire researchers for politicians than to allow lobbying to continue.
I see no reason why anyone who isn't a constituent should have easy access to a politician.