Program directory · Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada

Registry of Lobbyists

Department: Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada
Program code: BVA01 (ORL)
Core responsibility: Regulation of lobbying
In Departmental Plans: 2018-19 – 2019-20 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2017-18. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Registry of Lobbyists	This program	2017-18 – 2021-22	$4.3M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

No significant changes detected.

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Number of lobbyists active during the fiscal year

Expected result: Lobbyists register and report their lobbying activities in accordance with the Lobbying Act

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 8,400	2019	6,819 An error existed in all data extracts from the Registry of Lobbyists in previous years, resulting in the inclusion of lobbyists listed in both active and inactive registrations in the reported number of active lobbyists. The 2018-19 target of 8,400 active lobbyists was set before this data anomaly was identified. Revised numbers of active lobbyists in recent years are as follows: • 2013-14 = 5,97…	Not met
2019-20	≥ 8,400	2020	6,998 An error existed in all data extracts from the Registry of Lobbyists in years previous to 2019-20, resulting in the inclusion of lobbyists listed in both active and inactive registrations in the reported number of active lobbyists. The 2019-20 target of 8,400 active lobbyists was set before this data anomaly was identified, and could not be changed in time for the 2019-20 year.	Not met

Number of registration activities during the fiscal year

Expected result: Lobbyists register and report their lobbying activities in accordance with the Lobbying Act

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 22,000	2019	40,326	Met
2019-20	≥ 22,000	2020	31,118	Met

Number of times Registry information is accessed during the fiscal year

Expected result: Canadians access information about lobbying activities through the Registry of Lobbyists

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 700,000	2019	844,149	Met
2019-20	≥ 700,000	2020	783,808	Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

Show the numbers

Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2017-18	—	$1.3M
2018-19	$1.1M	$1.4M
2019-20	$1.3M	$1.5M
2020-21	$1.3M*	—
2021-22	$1.3M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

Show the numbers

Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2017-18	7	7
2018-19	7	7
2019-20	7	7
2020-21	7*	—
2021-22	7*	—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
2018-19 plan	$1,101,932	$1,101,932	$1,101,932
2019-20 plan		$1,258,725	$1,257,625	$1,257,625
Actual	$1,445,198	$1,478,522

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.