Don Martin: Jaffer knocks lobbyists into political gutter
If ever there was good fallout to a political scandal, this would be it. The fact that lobbyists will likely undergo an increased chill in Ottawa is good news for everyone's pocketbooks.
I don't begrudge a person for lobbying for their own personal benefit or those of their friends to the government. I don't begrudge a person lobbying the government for increased funding for their own pet cause - AIDS awareness, more cancer drugs, more kidney transplants, what have you.
What I DO begrudge is an organization getting money from the government and turning that money over to someone who has no personal stake in an issue and telling them to lobby the government for more money. This is where I hope that the lobby chill will affect everyone. Like I said - the less attention that is paid to lobbyists, the better it is for everyone's pocketbook.
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