Government Relations Audits

audits Examine your firm's existing government relations efforts and strategy, looking closely at the processes by which opportunities to advance your government and parliamentary profile are handled and how proactive efforts are generated.

Provide practical advice on the steps the firm should take to better achieve its government relations goals.

Our recommendations will be tailored to your firm's core practices and the specific government programs and legislative issues you should be targeting. At the end of the audit, you will receive a detailed government relations plan, as well as a follow-up discussion to review the plan and address any questions that remain.

Legislative Advocacy

Meeting with high level officials and legislators to advocate for legislation affecting our clients.
Developing strategies for enacting, implementing, or defeating legislation.
Lobbying individual legislators.
Arranging strategy sessions and meetings between clients and key decision-makers, including legislative leadership, committee chairpersons, and the (appropriate) Minister's office.
Monitoring and reporting on legislation of interest to our clients.
Providing regular client communications in the form of newsletters, information bulletins, and final reports to keep clients informed of key legislative votes, news and milestones.
Assisting with grassroots/advocacy efforts and building coalitions to achieve legislative results on behalf of our clients.
Assisting with testimony and other arrangements associated with public hearings and legislative committee meetings.
Monitoring and reporting on various legislative task force and committee meetings, and attending hearings and conferences.
Creating political strategy sessions to garner multi-party support for legislation before Parliament.

Government Relations

Serving as liaison between clients and members of various federal agencies, and the executive and judicial branches of the federal government.
Developing strategies for enacting, revising, implementing, or defeating regulations.
Crafting strategies to effectuate local economic development projects by leveraging federal financial assistance.
Representing clients on licensing, permitting, procurement, enforcement, and tax policy issues before federal agencies.
Providing advice and input on declaratory rulings of interest to our clients.
Representing clients' interests before government departments and regulatory bodies.
Coordinating crisis management and intervention.
Political strategy sessions to create ways of bringing attention to burdens on our clients brought on by federal laws.

Affiliates

The Parliamentary Group is affiliated with FIPRA - Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers - an independent network of senior public policy and government relations advisers specializing in strategic government relations for multinational clients in over 50 countries.