Uber Canada wants to talk with the federal government about testing self-driving cars. Beef Farmers of Ontario is lobbying the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) to reopen what was supposed to be the country's last prison slaughterhouse. And the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada wants the federal government to better regulate the marketing of “unhealthy foods and beverages” to children.

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 will publish 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.