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World Society for the Protection of Animals Canada

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World Society for the Protection of Animals Canada

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This group lobbied on more closed in animal cruelty laws, improving conditions for animals during transportation. They got support from the UN animal welfare declaration. This company has been saving animals for more than 50 years.

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We move the world to protect animals. | World Animal Protection

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Our vision is a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.

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Ernst & Young are an accounting firm that began in London, UK. They are globally recognized and understand the global markets with analyzing many details and being in with talking to different governments globally to maintain the best rates for their clients despite the circumstances. Ernst & Young are recognized as one of the "Big Four" accounting firms together with PwC, Deloitte and KPMG.

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Lobbying is common through the banks in Canada. The government is partnered with many banks in Canada as they like to have control over money and those who hold it being the many banks in our country. The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) represents up to 59 banks across Canada employing over 200,000 workers.

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Founded in 1979, the Animal Legal Defense Fund seeks to protect the lives and advance the interest of animals through the legal system.

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After Barack Obama was elected as President of the United States, the First Lady Michelle Obama, launched her "Lets Move" campaign. The goal of this campaign was to combat childhood obesity which is rampant worldwide but especially in the U.S.. At the beginning, Mrs. Obama went after sugar. She fought to get sugar out of school cafeterias and to limit the damage it can cause to children. A couple years into the movement however, they transitioned from trying to cause actual legislation to focusing on personal responsibility. This is because monstrous companies such as Kraft spent approximately $175 million for lobbying from 2008 to 2013. The First Lady is one of the most influential faces in American society, and even she was swayed.

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Canadian Bankers Association ( Lolita Ahmedov)

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Canadian Bankers Association ( Lolita Ahmedov)

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Lobbying is a company, special interest group or individuals. That influence government to endorse public policy favorable to those groups. For instance, if we look at Ontario to incorporate financial literacy into grade 10 career course. Prakash Amarasooriya, push to get skills about managing money into the course was led by Toronto Youth Cabinet. The Ontario Ministry of Education has committed to incorporating financial literacy skills into the grade 10 careers course after a call from the Toronto Youth Cabinet. Prakash Amarasooriya wants to get specific topics like budgeting, filing taxes and how to buy a house into a careers course.

( Paraksh Amarasooriya )

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An ongoing battle since around 1994 where Ford Canada has tried to get the government to cover some of employees pensions. Ford wants their employees to have a pension but they do not want to cover all of the expense. - Randi. J

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Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - Brody Brown

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Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - Brody Brown

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Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) are an influential group who advocate for the upstream Canadian oil and natural gas industry. They recently lobbied in 2011 to oppose the Kyoto Protocol, which was created to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere.

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Chicken farmer of canada Lobbied for meat inspection regulations, poultry import tariffs, medicated feed mixing regulations, food safety programs on May 28, 2009.

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Since 2012 Google has been spending the most money on lobbying the American government than any other company.   On the website, opensecrets.org, there is a list of 24 issues that Google lobbied for in 2014 and most recently, Google addressed Trump to ask him to support the freedom and growth of the internet while lobbying for better trade agreements and less regulations.

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American Civil Liberties Union - LAUREN RAMO

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American Civil Liberties Union - LAUREN RAMO

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the ACLU is a non profit organization who's mission is to defend an individuals rights and liberties of everyone  in the US by the constitution of laws of the USA. it works though lobbying and litigation.
PAST: founded in 1920 it was mainly focused on freedom of speech mainly focusing on anti-war protesters. later on in the year they expanded on protecting the free speech rights with the national association of the advancement of coloured people to decrease racism. in 1930's ACLU started to work on working against police misconducted and native American rights.
PRESENT: ACLU is the nations guardian of liberty with working in legislatures, courts, and all through communities.
FUTURE: They are going to achieve there goal of full equality from lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people by establishing new privacy protections with with government surveillance and making sure that the tight to vote and the right to have an abortion stays as rights.

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The World Animal Protection company was founded in 1981 and has put forth many efforts lobbying for stricter animal rights laws,  better conditions for animals during transport and support for the UN animal welfare declaration. The World Animal Protection company was started so that all animals could have a voice and be able to live free of pain.

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Canadian Bankers Association- Emma Holmes

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Canadian Bankers Association- Emma Holmes

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In 2005, the Canadian Bankers Association helped put in place a "Do Not Call" list so that insurance companies couldn't constantly call their clients.

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Suncor Energy is a lobbyist company known for consistently communicating and suggesting ideas to the government. They are a part of more than 10 industry groups famous for lobbying.

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“The Voice for Real Estate"  - Emma Hamilton

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“The Voice for Real Estate"  - Emma Hamilton

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The National Association of REALTORS is America’s largest trade association, representing over 1.1 million member and the #2 top spender on lobbying is the USA from 1998 to 2016.  The Association has lobbied for many different issues in 2016 spending $45,255,769 to lobbying on acts such as the Credit Availability Act and the Mortgage Choice Act.

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Voice for Real Estate 57: Elections, Orlando, Board of Directors

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NAR Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello discusses the impact of the 2016 election join real estate. The video also looks at the 2016 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in Orlando and the actions of the NAR Board of Directors.

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The Retail Council of Canada is a not for profit group that speaks out for all of the retail industry in Canada. They believe that their industry touches the daily lives of Canadians all over the country. They speak out which helps them provides job, and opportunity to many Canadians. Their main goals is to advance, promote and protect the members of the group by educating, advocacies and also through communication. This group is located in  Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.

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The MAC (Mining Association of Canada) is a lobby group fighting for sustainable mining in Canada. Their group mainly pushes to remedy abandoned mines, create regulations on regularly assessing the mines. In the end, their vision is to see "a strong, responsible and globally competitive Canadian mining and mineral processing industry that creates wealth and opportunity for all Canadians".

This lobby group started way back in 1935 and is still going strong today!

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In 2010, a group supported by the United States Department of Agriculture proposed healthier lunches for students at schools in order to act upon obesity of children, however a stronger group, food lobbyist, that were backed up by Coca-Cola and Del Monte were encountered. The food lobbyists were able to block the proposed health improvements, even suggesting that the tomato paste on a pizza qualified as a vegetable. This showed how the food lobbyist were able to compel the government (United States Department of Agriculture) for their own interests, winning over health concerns.

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Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by Canadian and U.S environmentalists and is a global campaigning organization that acts to protect and serve the environment and promote peace towards these issues. One of the successes that was lead by Greenpeace was in 2011 by influencing Costco to remove red listed (threatened) fish species from sale in the U.S and Canada and this marked the last of Canada's major supermarket chains to commit to moving away from selling seafood in danger and instead help to ensure greener seafood choices for their customers. View this video below:

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A Message from Casson Trenor, Oceans Campaigner, on Costco Victory

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Greenpeace Oceans campaigner, Casson Trenor, announces that the Costco campaign is victorious after the company has pledged to remove red-list fish products from their stores and take a leadership role in aquaculture and the canned tuna industry.

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The NRA is the National Rifle Association and is a major lobby group in the United States. The NRA was founded on November 17, 1871, New York City, New York, United States and was founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan. Now it serves for protecting the 2nd Amendment of the United States, (the right to bear arms).

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Oiling and gas lobbying has exceeded any other interest group in Canada. By using the federal lobbyist registry to track meetings, study shows that since 2008 oil and gas interests diminished contact by other major industry groups.Petroleum Producers and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association nearly doubled the 412 communications.