Agriculture interests dominate trade lobbying last year

Published February 9, 2011

As Canadian negotiators hammered away at a deal with the European Union last year, segments of the country's agricultural and pharmaceutical industries were engaged in fierce behind-the-scenes lobbying efforts to get their positions included.

In fact, an Embassy analysis of lobbying records shows that when it came to lobbying on international trade issues in 2010, the country's sharply-divided agricultural industry took the top prize, highl...