Documents recently filed with the federal government's lobbyist registry reveal a controversial conservative adman will soon be lobbying on behalf of The Friends of Science Society, an action group opposed to the Kyoto Accord. Bryan Thomas presently works as a senior counsel in the Calgary office of Fleishman Hillard Canada Inc., a division of one of the world's largest public relations consulting firm. But he is better known for his work as president of a London, Ontario agency that produced the advertising campaign for Ontario Premier Mike Harris's Common Sense Revolution - to a May 1997 article published in The Hallifax Daily News. In the same year, he was also responsible for the Reform Party's election commercials that drew red lines through the faces of Quebec politicians. And, in 1999, while consulting for the Saskatchewan Party, the National Post quoted him as saying that advertisers involved in politics need to keep the issues simple: "The name of the game is to find out that 20% to 30%, to find out who they are and to get inside their wee little heads and to find some way to reach out to them." Mr. Thomas subsequently resigned as an advisor to the party and has been absent from the headlines since.