CIJA Lobbied Or Sponsored Trips For 58% Of MPs Running In 2025

 

CIJA’s significant level of interaction with incumbents may indicate notable political influence

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is a Zionist lobby group that has a stated priority of “strengthening the Canada-Israel Friendship.” It has aimed to do so in several ways, including lobbying MPs and taking them on fully paid trips to Israel. 

I’ve published several articles on CIJA’s activities since 2022, including a list of the 10 MPs most lobbied by CIJA and a breakdown of MPs CIJA has taken to Israel.

This article is intended to provide readers with a better understanding of how CIJA has interacted with incumbents running in the ongoing federal election.

In order to do so, I took the following steps:

1. I narrowed down ridings to ones where an incumbent is running by using the Canadian Elections Tracker website;
2. I searched each of these incumbents’ names in the public Registry of Lobbyists to see how many times CIJA has lobbied them and/or their staff, if at all, since 2008 (which is as far back as you can go in the online registry);
3. I searched each of these incumbents’ names in the public registry at the ethics commissioner’s website to see if they had been taken on at least one trip to Israel by CIJA since 2007 (which is as far back as the registry goes online), and if so, what its/their value was;
4. I then created the graphs and crunched the numbers that you’ll see below.  (more...)

CIJA Lobbied Or Sponsored Trips For 58% Of MPs Running In 2025