Loophole in lobbyist law means Hector Bremner, others, avoid penalties

VICTORIA — Former government employees, including a Vancouver mayoral candidate, are escaping penalties for improper lobbying because of what the province’s lobbyist watchdog calls a “significant loophole.”
The registrar of lobbyists, Michael McEvoy, said he was left with no choice but to reverse a $2,000 fine levied against Hector Bremner, who worked for a Liberal cabinet minister in 2015. And McEvoy said he was similarly forced to exempt a B.C. Building Trades lobbyist