Evidence of meeting #44 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was threshold.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Thank you, Mr. Larkin.
Ms. Baker, I saw you nodding your head there. I'm sure Mr. Malette would like to give you the opportunity to respond to that last question. Even though we are over time, I'm going to give you an opportunity, because I saw that you wanted to be engaged.
Go ahead.
Vice-President, Research, Advocacy and External Relations, Imagine Canada
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Charities and non-profits are in-house. Even then, it's often not one dedicated staff member. It's very distinct. It's being done, often off the side of the desk, by the ED, by the fundraiser, by the program manager. That's when we really get into that challenge of the eight-hour threshold.
Do you want to make sure we have the clarity that the eight hours applies across anyone in the organization? That's the in-house distinction. The organization registers, and anyone on staff who is working...to meet that. That is when the eight hours starts to become quite limiting: when that ED goes to a consultation, when a staff member plans for a meeting, when someone is having a conversation around a grant.
It's just to reiterate that there is that distinction between the sustained lobbying that paid consultants do and the more incidental lobbying that some of those smaller charities and non-profits engage in.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Thank you, Ms. Baker and Mr. Larkin, for being here and for providing the committee with some valuable input.
I'm going to adjourn the meeting.
Thank you.