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Rednwhite publishes an independent, plain-language report card on how Canada’s governments spend public money — federal, provincial, territorial and municipal. A new one each season, 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.
How it works
We check the published financial records of every level of government in Canada. The first report card covers the federal government, 12 provinces and territories, Peel Region and its cities, and Toronto. Crown corporations and more cities are next.
We go to the source: budgets, audited public accounts and auditors’ reports. Where the detail isn’t published, we will file access-to-information requests. Never press releases, never talking points.
Gaps between what was budgeted and what was spent, audit opinions with reservations, and results published late. Next: unexplained cost spikes, and spending far above what comparable governments pay for the same thing.
A new one each season, 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 say so.
Our mission
Rednwhite exists to make government spending in Canada legible to the people who pay for it. We publish free, plain-language report cards on every level of government, a new one each season. 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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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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