Regulation of lobbying in Canada

The aim of the bachelor thesis is to define lobbying, actors of lobbying and their lobby activities within the frame of theoretical models of regulation of lobbying and subsequently apply these definitions to specific levels of Canadian government arrangement. The main question then is why it should be legislated to regulate lobbying. The structure of the Canadian organization of the State corresponds to two institutional levels. The first chapter is devoted to definitions of lobbying, and its actors. This chapter is the analysis of legal regulations related to lobbying. The second chapter examines the theoretical models of legal frameworks regulating lobbying. The third chapter of the above definition of lobbying is first applied to the Canadian federal level. The fourth and last chapter of the bachelor thesis gets to the very core of the topic, which monitors regulation of lobbying at the provincial level, which has included into its legal framework and consequently leads to a comparison of these legal frameworks regulating the lobbying in Canada