Know your government.
The federal lobbying registry, contract awards, mandate-letter promises, parliamentary votes, and sole-source notices — joined together and searchable.
What is this?
The Canadian federal government already publishes the data needed to follow influence and money — but it's split across half a dozen websites, each with its own search box, format, and quirks. kyg pulls them into one place and joins them on the things that matter: people, organizations, and time. Pick a contractor and see whether they also lobbied the department that hired them. Pick an MP and see who's been in their office. Pick an ACAN and see whether the proposed sole-source vendor has been on the gravy train already.
Everything here comes from public sources — openparliament.ca, the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, open.canada.ca, the Privy Council's mandate-letter tracker, and CanadaBuys. Nothing is synthesized; we just join + index. Methodology and caveats →
What you can do here
Who's been lobbying my MP?
Pick any sitting or former MP and see every registered lobbying contact made with them — by which client, on what subject, when.
Where did this contractor's money come from?
Type any company name and get every federal grant + contract + lobbying contact ever recorded for them, on a single chronological timeline.
Is this sole-source contract real or recycled?
ACANs (sole-source notices) are the government's public statement that they intend to skip competition. We show each one with the named vendor's prior contracts inline.
Did the government keep its promises?
Every mandate-letter commitment the Prime Minister formally tasked each minister with — pulled straight from the Privy Council's tracker, status-coded.
How did my MP actually vote?
Every recorded division in the House, joined to the bill it was on, broken down by party. Cross-party dissenters are flagged.
What does the cross-cut on one issue look like?
Pick a topic (housing, defence, indigenous, climate, etc.) and see the lobbying contacts, grants, contracts, and government commitments side-by-side.
What's in the database
All the sections
Influence →
Lobbying registry — who met with which public office holder.
Spending →
Grants ≥$25k + contracts ≥$10k disclosed by every federal department.
Lawmaking →
Bills + recorded votes from Parliament, with each MP's ballot.
Promises →
Mandate-letter commitments from the PM to each minister.
Sole-source →
ACANs — when the government plans to skip competition. 15-day challenge window per notice.
Cross-refs →
Any organization's lobbying + grants + contracts on one timeline.
A note on what this is and isn't
A lobbying contact plus a grant to the same entity is a starting point for investigation, not a conclusion. Corporate donations to federal politicians have been banned in Canada since 2007; influence shows up here through registered lobbying, not money. Correlation, not causation — see About for methodology and caveats.