Bryan Evans (Toronto Metropolitan University) , Howlett, Alexander (University of Canada West) , Chen David (University of Toronto) , Howlett, Michael (Simon Fraser University) , Migone, Andrea (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Military procurement represents both a strategically and financially critical step in modern states involving tens of billions of dollars in investment over decades of development and delivery, draw large amounts of public attention and are generally predicated on complex industrial and investment agreements along with needing to satisfy tactical and strategic requirements in a complex set of relations among multiple actors. Yet, defense procurement lacks an in-depth analysis of its lobbying dimension. We utilize the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada’s lobbying registrar dataset to develop insights who the major lobbying actors are (and their career backgrounds), who in government, and which departments of government they engage with, and on which issues.