Bill Power Map · federal · EN / FR
Open a federal bill and Clarion lays out who decides it and who's already in the room: the sponsor, the organizations active on the bill's subject area, and the office-holders they've met. It turns a cold file into a map of the coalition you can join instead of cold-call.
Honest by construction: the map surfaces organizations active on the bill's SUBJECT AREA, by topical proximity over the federal lobbying registry. It shows who is working the subject — not a claim that any organization lobbied that exact bill number.
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Innovation, Science & Industry
The Council of Canadian Innovators filed three meetings with the Minister's office in May — a coalition you can join, not cold-call.
What's on the map
The map is built from primary records, not commentary. Each layer answers a question you'd otherwise spend a morning piecing together from the registry by hand.
The bill's sponsor and their portfolio, pulled straight from LEGISinfo. For a government bill that's the responsible minister; for a private member's bill it's the member and their party. The person whose office sets the bill's pace.
Organizations with recent activity on the bill's subject area in the federal lobbying registry — ranked by topical proximity, not alphabetical. The shortlist of who already cares enough to register and meet on it.
The designated public office-holders those organizations have logged communications with. Names, titles, and the office to brief — so your outreach starts from a coalition and a contact, not a blank page.
How it's built
No black box. The map is assembled from the bill's own text and the federal lobbying registry, by a method we'll describe to your face.
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Innovation, Science & Industry
The Council of Canadian Innovators filed three meetings with the Minister's office in May — a coalition you can join, not cold-call.
Clarion reads the bill's title, summary, and subject in both official languages, and derives the subject area it touches — finance, health, critical minerals, AI governance, and so on.
It then ranks federal lobbying registrations by how closely their declared subject matter sits to the bill's — surfacing the organizations active on the same subject area, most-proximate first.
From those registrations' communication reports, it lifts the designated public office-holders met and the dates, so the entry points are people and offices, not just org names.
We label it as what it is: organizations active on the subject area. It is topical proximity, not a declaration that any organization lobbied that exact bill — the same honesty rule we hold everywhere on Clarion.
Reads together
The Bill Power Map shares its registry layer with co-lobbying clusters and Clerk AI — so the same activity reads three ways: the bill's entry points, the coalition behind it, and a cited answer when you ask.
Computed from the registries
Critical-minerals coalition
Natural Resources Canada · Finance · the PMO — same officials, same quarter.
›Who's already working C-27, and who should we brief?
On C-27, the most active organizations on the subject are the Council of Canadian Innovators and Microsoft Canada1, who have logged meetings with the Minister of Innovation's office2 this spring — the office to brief first3. They are active on the subject, not confirmed lobbyists of the bill.
What it is — and isn't
The registry records the subjects an organization lobbies, not bill numbers. So the map shows who's active on the subject area the bill touches — stated as that, never as "these orgs lobbied this bill".
The map is built on the federal lobbying registry (OCL). British Columbia's registry is live in Clarion for other views; provincial bill power maps follow as their registries allow — we say which scope you're looking at.
Organizations active on the same subject are surfaced as observed activity. Co-lobbying is the way they cluster — never a stated coalition or a claim they coordinate.
Sponsor from LEGISinfo, organizations and meetings from the OCL registry. Every line traces back to a record you can open — no inference dressed up as fact.
Why it matters
The hard part of moving a file is rarely the analysis — it's the way in. The map turns "who do we even talk to?" into a shortlist of organizations and office-holders already on the subject.
The organizations active on your bill's subject are the coalition you can join. Read who's already registered and meeting, then decide whether to align, counter, or differentiate.
The office-holders the active organizations have met are the offices that already engage on the subject. Brief them first instead of guessing at the org chart.
If five organizations are working the same subject, you should know before you walk in. The map makes the field — allies and opponents — visible on one screen.
Start free and open any federal bill — the sponsor, the organizations active on its subject, and the office-holders they've met are right there. No demo gate to see how the map is built.