About Us
Democracy functions best when people are informed. Our mission is to take publicly available data about elected officials and make it easily accessible for all Canadians.
This website was created by Canadian Developers inspired by a data source originally compiled through the investigative work of Isaac Peltz and Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours and accessed via Discord.
Disclaimer
This site is a work-in-progress and updated regularly. While we strive for accuracy, there may be errors in the data.
If you notice any inaccuracies, please contact mplandlordcheck [ at ] protonmail [ dot ] com.
Frequently Asked Questions
My representative only owns X properties/their extra property is a vacation home/they are renting it to a family member, why are they flagged?
The word landlord tends to be quite charged and it becomes challenging to objectively decide where to draw the line when flagging people who collect a rental income directly, versus those who benefit from an imputed rent or from the inflating price of the asset itself.
In our best effort to avoid accusations of editorialization we tend to flag quite strictly, even though it can feel unfair to flag someone who owns 2 vacation homes next to someone who owns 10 downtown rental condos.
We include the full contents of the public disclosures unmodified and a link to the source so that people can reach their own conclusions about specific politicians, and we have a longer term goal to use separate flags for properties that generate direct rental income, if and where it is possible to distinguish them.
Our goal is not to shame specific politicians, but to highlight than many politicians at all level of government own multiple properties - a consideration when they pass legislation about housing affordability.
We encourage people to make their own judgements about the data presented.
Methodology
Federal data is sourced from a public registry which is maintained by the Office of Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. This registry is updated yearly for current members of parliament when there is a relevant change in their summary statements, public declarations relating to gifts or other advantages, travel, outside activities and certain assets and liabilities, and other declarations as necessary.
We regularly update this site as new data is released. Please refer to the relevant public registry for further information.
For Provincial data, we use similar public registries which are listed accordingly on the relevant pages.
Recently we removed data regarding home ownership as it related to primary residence.
This data is inconsistent, particular in provincial jurisidictions, and representatives often do not need to declare their primary residence, especially if the mortgage is paid off.
Our research also found that nearly elected representative is a homeowner. We identified less than five cases to the contrary. As a result, we have removed this data from the page since it is often misleading.
Terminology
- Landlord
- An individual who owns a property they or their family do not reside in, and either collect or plan to collect rental income, or benefit from an imputed rent or the inflating price of the asset.
- Significant Assets/Investments
- An individual stock ownership of at least $10,000. Stocks or assets valued under this amount are not included, and there is no maximum cap.
- For Provincial representatives this threshold is typically much lower.
Under Development
We are working on adding data about Federal MP contract expenses, and potentially other objective political data, as well as preparing for more data about Mark Carney's administration to become available soon.