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Rednwhite is building an independent report card on how Canada’s governments spend public money — federal, provincial, territorial and municipal. It will be published four times a year, free for everyone, and funded without a single dollar from government.
Our first report card is out: how Canada's governments did against their own budgets, including Peel Region, its cities and Toronto. Crown corporations and more cities are next.
Find a budget Pick a province or territory to see where its budget, public accounts and auditor’s reports live.
What we’re building
We are building a system to check the financial records of every level of government in Canada, starting with federal departments and Crown corporations, then every province and territory, then major cities. Here is how it will work.
We will go to the source: budgets, public accounts, Auditor General reports and municipal financial returns — and file access-to-information requests where the detail isn’t published. Never press releases, never talking points.
Unexplained cost spikes, gaps between what was budgeted and what was spent, and spending far above what comparable governments pay for the same thing.
Four times a year, each built on what governments published that season, in plain language and free for every Canadian. Where a government makes its numbers hard to follow, we will say so.
Our mission
Rednwhite exists to make government spending in Canada legible to the people who pay for it. We will audit every level of government and publish free, plain-language report cards four times a year. We accept no government money, so nothing we publish depends on the goodwill of the institutions we examine.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic
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Free public report cards a year.
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Governments in our budget directory, every link opened before it is published.
Join us in holding governments accountable. Your support is what takes the report card to Crown corporations and more cities — and we accept no government funding, ever.
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