Political Science 2211E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Business Council Of Canada, Pass Laws, Corporate Donations
11 Mar 2016
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Lecture 6 where two worlds meet: business lobbying. Atempt to inluence some aspect of public sector decision making: direct, indirect atempt to inluence public opinion through pr, adverising. Steps have since been taken to increase transparency: federal level lobbying act, lobbyist"s code of conduct, oice of the commissioner of lobbying of canada, 5 year ban on lobbying for ministers and ministerial stafers. Primary targets: pm, cabinet, public service: business actors acive in trying to promote government decisions along neoliberal lines. Structural power: private ownership and control of means of producion. Business as only ones who can facilitate economic growth: important source of government revenue. May not even need to lobby due to inluence: threat of capital strike. Pulling out investments and moving to other jurisdicion. Power of ideas: business interests were never fully commited to keynesianism, engage in concentrated campaigns on key poliical issues try and shit public opinion, fund supporive research.
