The lobbying commissioner has raised a red flag about that threshold many times. If you're a company—and I talk to companies all the time—you hire someone who comes from the governing party. You were with the Liberal Party. You hire someone who knows the inner workings. Your experience is with the Privy Council Office. You don't have to waste your time with the drudgery of doing 20% lobbying. You just call up Minister Morneau and he's going to meet with you, so you don't ever have to meet that threshold. However, other companies, out of prudence, register because they recognize that what they're doing is lobbying. That's what you were doing: you were lobbying ministers. Why don't you follow the standards? Google, Amazon, and every other company registers to lobby. Why does Facebook think these laws are quaint?
On April 19th, 2018. See this statement in context.