Methodology

Data sources

• Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Public registry (ethicscanada.ca). Every person, declaration and item on this site comes from it: the listings by role, each person's profile and each declaration's own page. The registry has no download or API, so its pages are read one at a time, at most one a second, and kept as received. The registry pages do not state a licence. Refreshed monthly (weekly for about four months after a general election). Registry read on 2026-10-11.
• House of Commons, Members of Parliament open data (members list in XML and each member's roles): caucus and current committee memberships of sitting MPs. Refreshed with the registry.
• Other Publicly ledgers: the vendor names of Canada's Contract Ledger and the recipient names of Canada's Grants Ledger, read from those sites' own files to find the same name there (how).

Data coverage

Everyone the registry lists under the three roles this site reads: Members of Parliament, ministers (including ministers of state and secretaries of state) and parliamentary secretaries. That is 371 people: 336 who hold one of those roles now and 35 former ministers or parliamentary secretaries whose profile the registry still shows (their role reads "Post-Employment"). The registry's role listings had 2,979 under Members of Parliament, 1,725 under Ministers, 408 under Parliamentary Secretaries when last read; each entry is a person or one of their declarations.

MPs who have left the House do not appear in the registry's listings, so this site cannot cover them. Senators file with a different officer and are not included.

Declarations read, by the registry's type (the earliest was disclosed Feb 13, 2009):

All 2,714 declarations were read from their own registry pages.

Not read: declarations about gifts, sponsored travel, recusals, penalties and the Commissioner's reports. They are counted on each person's page and linked from their registry profile. In all:

See also Limits.

What the rules require

• MPs follow the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons. They report their and their family's interests to the Commissioner confidentially; the Commissioner publishes a disclosure summary that, in the Code's words quoted on every summary, sets out "the source and nature, but not the value, of the income, assets and liabilities". Assets and liabilities of $10,000 or more are listed, by name only.
• Spouses and common-law partners: their assets, liabilities, income and activities are part of the member's disclosure and appear under their own headings ("Spouse's/Common-Law Partner's assets" and so on). This site shows them exactly as the registry does and adds nothing about them.
• Material changes: the Code asks a member to report a material change "within 60 days after the change" (subsection 21(3), quoted on every Material Change). The registry publishes the statement as a Material Change with its own disclosure date.
• Ministers and parliamentary secretaries are also reporting public office holders under the Conflict of Interest Act. They must sell publicly traded securities they control or place them in a blind trust, and they publish a declaration of their other assets and a summary statement of how they complied. Their spouses are not required to sell. A minister's own securities therefore rarely appear here; a spouse's may.
• Owning shares, property or a company while in office is allowed. Disclosing them is what the rules require.

Reading a declaration

A declaration is free text under headings. This site keeps every line exactly as written and reads, from the words alone:

• Whose it is: the member's, or the spouse's or common-law partner's, from the heading. Dependants' items are shown on the person page as written but left out of every count.
• What kind of item it is: shares (including trust and partnership units of listed issuers), ETFs and funds, bonds and notes, cryptocurrency, investment accounts (registered plans and accounts "composed of publicly traded securities"), real estate, private corporations, liabilities, and other assets (loans receivable, copyrights, trusts). Lines under a heading such as "Shares of:" or "Units:" take that heading's kind.
• The name of a security, the lender of a liability or the institution of an account, as written.
• In a Material Change: the "Date of change", whether the statement reports an acquisition ("purchased", "acquired", "now hold"), a sale or end ("sold", "no longer", "disposed") or another change, and the names listed under it.

Listed now means the line is in a declaration the registry marks Active (not "No Longer Applicable"), or it was acquired in a Material Change disclosed after the person's latest Active disclosure summary. When a later Material Change reports a sale of something still in the summary, the person page says so next to it. First listed and last listed are the disclosure dates of the first and last declarations that list the item.

How names are matched

The same company is written many ways ("Enbridge", "Enbridge Inc.", "ENBRIDGE INC"). A reviewed list of 298 companies, funds and lenders (pipeline/entities.json) gives each one the written names that can mean nothing else. A name matches only when it is identical to one of them after ignoring letter case, accents, punctuation, a leading "the", "&" versus "and", and trailing legal forms such as Inc., Corp. or Ltd. Nothing is matched by similarity, so a misspelt or abbreviated name stays unmatched rather than being guessed. This build matched 6,145 of 9,877 named lines to 298 companies, funds and lenders; 1,776 other names are shown exactly as written, each with its own page. Tickers are given only when the listed security is unambiguous.

Links to the Contract and Grants ledgers use the same rule: a company's page links to a vendor or recipient page there only when that name, written the same way, has exactly one page. 21 companies link this way. A matching name does not show that two records are the same legal entity, nor any connection between a holding and a contract or grant. Minister pages link to the departments named in the title of their current role, on the ledgers that have that department.

Measures

• People: every count on the dashboard and the holding pages counts people, a member and their spouse counting once, unless a column says members or spouses.
• Disclose shares or fund units: the person or their spouse lists now at least one line of shares, ETF or fund units, bonds or notes, or cryptocurrency.
• Party: the House of Commons caucus for sitting MPs, matched to the registry by riding and surname; otherwise the party the registry lists, if any.
• Days to disclose: the disclosure date the registry shows minus the "Date of change" written in a Material Change. A date written with numbers where day and month could be swapped (for example 03/04/2026) is used only if one reading falls on or before the disclosure date; otherwise the gap is left blank. 27 dates of change could not be read unambiguously in this build.
• More than 60 days: a Material Change with at least one dated change more than 60 days before its disclosure date. The registry's disclosure date is when the statement was made public, which can be later than when the member filed it with the Commissioner, so a long gap is not by itself a late filing.

Example: this Material Change gives a date of change of 2026/07/15 and the registry shows it disclosed on Sep 29, 2026: 76 days.

Limits

• No values: the registry never gives the value of a holding or a debt, or the size of a trade. This site never estimates them, and a count of items says nothing about wealth.
• Free text: declarations are written by people and vary. Kinds and names are read from the wording; a line may be read into the wrong kind or keep extra words in its name. The original line is always shown, and the declaration is one click away.
• Older Material Changes often have no text on the registry page; they are counted and linked but cannot be read.
• Ministers' securities in a blind trust are not listed by name, by design.
• The registry is the source: if a declaration is wrong or incomplete there, it is wrong or incomplete here.

Updates and corrections

The registry is read again every month, and weekly for about four months after a general election, when new members file. Only profiles the registry marks as modified and declarations not yet read are downloaded again. New names are added to the reviewed list by a person. Mistakes can be reported on the corrections page, where every correction is logged.

Disclaimer

Publicly is an independent project. It is not affiliated with the Government of Canada, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the House of Commons, any other government, court or agency, or any political party.

These pages are built by automated processing of the declarations published in the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner's public registry, with code written and run with the help of AI. Errors in the registry or in our processing can still occur. Treat every item as a pointer to the original declaration and verify it there before you rely on it: each item links to the declaration it comes from.

Declarations are as filed with and published by the Commissioner, not audited findings. A holding, a change or a gap between dates appearing on this site is not an allegation of wrongdoing. Nothing here is legal, financial or professional advice.

Found a mistake? Report it on the corrections page.