Steve Van Groningen

Consultant lobbyist · PAA Advisory | Conseils

Steve Van Groningen of PAA Advisory | Conseils reported 4 meetings with Members of Parliament since October 2025, with 5 MPs on behalf of 1 client, most often Xplore Inc..

4 MP meetings since October 20255 MPs1 clients at those meetings8 clients registered since January 2025#282 among consultant lobbyists

Former public office: Special Assistant, Prime Minister's Office, until 2010. The registry flags this as a designated public office, a senior role. The Lobbying Act bars former designated public office holders from consultant lobbying for five years after leaving, unless the Commissioner grants an exemption. The revolving door

Meetings with MPs

4 communication reports naming a Member of Parliament since October 2025, newest first, with the registrant's own description where one was filed.

Date	Client	MPs	Subjects
2026-05-27	Xplore Inc. Encouraging future spectrum auctions to allow for greatest use of spectrum for rural broadband and other issues related specifically to rural broadband.	Carol Anstey, Jonathan Rowe	Telecommunications; Infrastructure; Regional Development; Science and Technology; Taxation and Finance
2026-05-26	Xplore Inc. Encouraging future spectrum auctions to allow for greatest use of spectrum for rural broadband and other issues related specifically to rural broadband.	Pauline Rochefort	Telecommunications; Infrastructure; Regional Development; Science and Technology; Taxation and Finance
2026-05-26	Xplore Inc. Encouraging future spectrum auctions to allow for greatest use of spectrum for rural broadband and other issues related specifically to rural broadband.	Richard Bragdon	Telecommunications; Infrastructure; Regional Development; Science and Technology; Taxation and Finance
2026-05-26	Xplore Inc. Encouraging future spectrum auctions to allow for greatest use of spectrum for rural broadband and other issues related specifically to rural broadband.	Raquel Dancho	Telecommunications; Infrastructure; Regional Development; Science and Technology; Taxation and Finance

Lobbying is legal and registered. A meeting may be about anything; the subjects are the ones the registrant reported. Counts are communication reports in the federal Registry of Lobbyists that name a Member of Parliament or Parliamentary Secretary, one per report, since October 2025. Registrants have until the 15th of the next month to file, so recent weeks are undercounted.

Names are as the registrants filed them; MPs link to their pages when the name matches a sitting MP. Source: Registry of Lobbyists, Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (lobbycanada.gc.ca). How this is counted: most active lobbyists.