Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | TELUS Corp provides an unusually thorough picture of its climate-related lobbying. It names multiple concrete policies it engages on, including the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, legislation to expand renewable power, the Government of Canada’s “2 Billion Trees” programme, and energy-efficiency and low-carbon building initiatives advanced by the Canadian Green Building Council. The company is equally clear about how and where it acts: it "engages with policy makers on the development of the policy, and submits feedback on all feedback and engagement requests for Canada’s Federal Sustainable Development Policy,” meets directly with Natural Resources Canada on the tree-planting programme, participates in public consultations, and lobbies indirectly through memberships such as the Canadian Wind Energy Association and Business Renewables Canada. Specific targets—including federal policymakers responsible for the Sustainable Development Strategy and Natural Resources Canada—are identified. TELUS also spells out the results it is seeking: it supports “standardizing and mandating [ESG] reporting, increasing transparency, and factoring ESG into procurement, regulatory and funding decisions,” advocates that “digital connectivity and technologies can reduce GHG emissions by up to 20 per cent,” backs tax incentives and green bonds to speed renewable electricity deployment, urges a national carbon budget with provincial reduction goals, calls for mandatory corporate GHG disclosure and target-setting, supports full funding for low-carbon building retrofits, and wants to accelerate the 2 Billion Trees programme to capture carbon and create green jobs. Taken together, these disclosures demonstrate a comprehensive level of transparency across the policies lobbied, the mechanisms used, and the concrete outcomes sought. | 4 |