I haven't studied the present government in any specific or particular way. Generally speaking, I take a more macroeconomic view of public administration.
My research concerns the years from 2000 to 2021. I don't have any specific comments to make on the current government. For regulations in particular, the regulatory impact analyses include mechanisms enabling all stakeholders affected or concerned by regulations to take part in consultations and to be consulted. Furthermore, a forum is open to them via the notices of consultation and the calls for comments that are made. It's also quite well documented that large businesses in particular have very close ties with government when the latter wishes to develop regulations. They are one of the stakeholders that interact most with government regulatory bodies, at both the federal and other government levels.
In the course of my research, I have discovered that both types of stakeholder consultations can indeed have an impact on regulations, whether the consultations are held upstream, which is more bilateral, or whether they are more open consultations involving notices of consultation and calls for comments.
I've noticed that, when businesses appear alone at these consultations and are the government's sole interlocutor, they often manage to make the regulations less binding. When they appear at public consultations and interact with regulatory bodies, they're able to make the regulations less binding because, in most cases, they have the most information on their own activities and can therefore help the regulatory organizations more fully understand their situation.
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