Government Accountability Database
Every documented ethics violation, criminal charge, conviction, and scandal involving Canadian elected officials — federal, provincial, and municipal. Sources: Ethics Commissioner, Auditor General, court records, Hansard, Charbonneau Commission, provincial integrity commissioners. Public record only.
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All parties · All levels
How the record is built: TENET5 follows a primary-source sourcing discipline as defined in AGENTS.md Section 3. Every database entry must resolve to a verifiable public record. Claims are stated as facts without editorial framing or rhetorical inference to maintain the database as an archival record for legal or regulatory proceedings. This methodology ensures that all entries are backed by primary sources, such as the Criminal Code of Canada, Hansard transcripts, and Auditor General reports.
00 — REALITY CHECKHow Government Purchases Work (And Why They Shouldn't Cost This Much)
Before we get to the individuals, let's talk about what your government actually pays for things — because the markup isn't a bug, it's the business model.
What Your Government Pays vs. What Things Actually Cost
Pay system for 290,000 employees
$5,000,000,000+
What a pay system actually is: Employee × Rate × Hours = Deposit. Shopify processes billions. Tim Hortons pays 15 people on time for $30/month. A CS student could build one in a weekend.
ArriveCAN — a COVID questionnaire app
$59,500,000
What it actually is: a web form with 10 fields and a QR code. A competent developer builds this in 3 days. 76% of subcontractors did zero work.
Long Gun Registry — a database
$629,000,000
What it actually is: a table with columns (Name, Address, Serial Number, Type). Your local library catalogue is more complex. Original budget: $2 million.
Hunting 84 deer on a BC island
$800,000
That's $9,524 per deer. With helicopters and semi-automatic weapons. Any hunter in Canada would have done it for a tag and a case of beer.
Catching one (1) bullfrog
$10,000
Parks Canada. Four years. One bullfrog. A 12-year-old with a net would have done it for free.
Flying a Canadian chef to India to cook Indian food
$17,000
India. Home of Indian food. They flew a Canadian there to make it. During a state visit. With your money.
86 leather chair cushions (Mexico City embassy)
$24,638
$286 per cushion. You can get a whole leather chair at Costco for less.
A fence at Signal Hill, Newfoundland
$65,000
Put up. Taken down one week later. $65,000 for a fence that existed for 7 days. That's $9,286 per day of fence.
A barn at Rideau Hall
$8,000,000
Eight million dollars. For a barn. Your tax dollars built the most expensive barn in Canadian history. The cows must be thrilled.
EV battery subsidies to foreign multinationals
$28,200,000,000
$28.2 billion to Stellantis, VW, and Northvolt (bankrupt). 20-year break-even "hope." Stellantis responded with layoffs. You paid for that.
Trans Mountain Pipeline (original est. $5.4B)
$34,200,000,000
6x over budget. Up to $18.8 billion in projected taxpayer losses. $1,255 per Canadian household. But there's no money for veterans.
TOTAL DOCUMENTED WASTE (partial list)
$100,000,000,000+
Every dollar above came from you. None of it was optional. None of it was refunded. And nobody went to jail.
Criminal Conviction
Criminal Charges
Ethics Violation
Conflict of Interest
Scandal/Misconduct
Expense Fraud
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