JTI-Macdonald is lobbying PEI lawmakers about a policy proposal to ban anyone born after 2009 from ever legally buying cigarettes on the Island. An association of biotechnology companies in Quebec wants its members to be exempt from a provincial freeze on hiring low-wage temporary foreign workers. And grain growers registered to lobby about the reliability of rail transportation on the same day that both of Canada's major rail companies locked out workers, bringing trains to a halt across the country.

Those are just some of the insights from the IJF’s roundup of lobbying registrations at the federal level and in every province across Canada. Each week, the IJF publishes data from our four lobbying databases showing who wants laws changed and who is asking for government money. Think of it as your weekly dose of public policy news before it becomes news.