The Lobbying Policy applies to all oral or written communications with government officials by any director, officer or employee of Power Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, unless a comparable policy applies in respect of a subsidiary, or persons authorized to act on their behalf concerning a change to an existing or proposed law, regulation, policy, program, permit, privatization, grant, financial contribution or appointment or the awarding of a contract, as further defined in the relevant provincial and federal lobbying legislation.