Paterson confirmed that donors are entitled to attend Canada 2020 events to which they’ve contributed — where they could easily wind up rubbing shoulders with cabinet ministers or even Trudeau himself. One of Smith’s clients, Actua, an Ottawa-based charity that promotes youth engagement in science, provides one example of how close the ties are between Bluesky and Canada 2020. But Smith, who filed no such report on the after-party, said she does no lobbying at Canada 2020 events. “Certainly, if I’m at a Canada 2020 event, I have a Canada 2020 hat on and that’s it,” she said in an interview, adding that the after-party was strictly a social occasion where it was impossible to predict who would show up. “Canada 2020 follows the rules and Bluesky Strategy Group, like every other lobby firm in Ottawa, follows the rules.

Source: thestar November 24, 2016 01:44 UTC