TikTok Canada is taking the federal government to court — and lobbying it, too. The app maker wants to discuss the privacy and security of its platform as Canadians face an increasingly messy media environment leading up to the April 28 election. A Nova Scotia mom wants Health Canada to change its organ donation rules, which she says discriminated against her son because he was gay. And vape giant Juul wants to talk taxes as the federal government moves to make tobacco companies pay for the public health costs linked to smoking. 

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.