RE:RE:Re-Opening Ontario Main Street Project Underway what are you implying by posting this? Trying to discredit Lawrence Gold? Come on...
Iveybiz79 wrote: 2019 - 2020 Lawrence Gold, Consultant Lobbyist Lawrence Gold was found not to have registered a lobbying undertaking that involved lobbying communications with several public officers over a five-and-a-half month period, and the arrangement of one meeting between public office holders and representatives of his client. At the time Mr. Gold was given notice of an investigation into the matter, his registration was 395 days overdue. The Lobbyist Registrar found that Mr. Golds failure to register was significant and contrary to the public interest. There is a public interest in ensuring that lobbying activity is fully disclosed and transparent. The Registrar found that by failing to provide the registrar with information about his undertaking over an extended period of time, Mr. Gold failed to satisfy the public interest in this matter. The Registrar found that the failure to register resulted through inadvertence, and that he had no previous history of non-compliance. In assessing an appropriate penalty in light of these factors, the Registrar did not think a prohibition was necessary. Notwithstanding the non-compliance, the penalty was therefore confined to publication of Mr. Golds name on the Registry and this brief description of the non-compliance.