Lobbying Flow Map

Who is lobbying whom? See the flow of lobbying communications from organizations through parties to individual MPs.

Values represent number of logged communications (meetings), not dollars. The diagram loads at most 25,000 rows per view (newest first). Use the year filter to focus on a calendar year; see Trends or Scorecard for full-database aggregates.

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Total Communications

1,000

Unique Organizations

442

MPs Contacted

265

Subject Areas

0

Lobbying by Party

Liberal689 contacts(68.9%)
Conservative265 contacts(26.5%)
Bloc Québécois32 contacts(3.2%)
NDP8 contacts(0.8%)
Green Party5 contacts(0.5%)
Independent1 contacts(0.1%)

Lobbying flow: Liberal wing (left) · organizations (center) · Conservative wing (right)

Flow is still organization → party → MP; columns are laid out with organizations in the middle, Liberal MPs and Liberal party on the left, Conservative party and Conservative MPs on the right. Other parties sit between Liberal and center. Data is the loaded sample (up to 25,000 communications, newest first). All means every distinct organization in that sample (ranked by volume), not the whole national registry.

Scroll inside the chart area to see every node when there are many orgs or MPs. You can also use the plot zoom tools and mouse wheel (if supported) on the diagram. Each band width is the number of contacts. Use the Organizations tab to scan the full list quickly.

Data from the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (lobbycanada.gc.ca). Showing 1,000 communications from 442 organizations to 265 MPs.