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Matthew Lau: 'Circular lobbying' has hurt child care in Canada

The federal government hands out money to groups that use it to lobby for ever more government spending. How does this doom loop end well?

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“Circular lobbying” is a phrase I learned from a new report by Sabine Benoit and David Clement, Canadian policy researchers with the U.S.-based Consumer Choice Center. Circular lobbying takes place when the government gives money to organizations that then use the money to lobby the government. “In other words,” the report explains, “the government is paying to lobby itself.”

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