BUSINESS COUNCIL OF CANADA

• MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC $620,000 Outside firm · 8 filings
• HANCE SCARBOROUGH $280,000 Outside firm · 8 filings
• NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH $160,000 Outside firm · 4 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• 2026 $370,000 6 filings
• 2025 $690,000 14 filings

• Trade (domestic/foreign) 19
• Economics/Economic Development 8
• Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills) 8
• Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 7
• Foreign Relations 1

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 16
• SENATE 16
• Treasury, Dept of 9
• U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 8
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 7
• State, Dept of (DOS) 7
• Office of Administration 6
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 3
• Interior, Dept of (DOI) 3
• Energy, Dept of 2
• Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 1