Canada Spends aims to be the easiest way for Canadians to understand how their government spends their money. A government cannot be held accountable if people don't understand what the government is doing. We aim to bring transparency to every level of government in Canada: federal, provincial, municipal and school boards.
We bring this transparency in two ways:
- We parse, aggregate and visualize audited financial statements that governments publish so that everyone can understand how their government spends their money and how it changes over time.
- We aggregate and normalize government spending databases to make the data fast to search and accessible.
By the end of 2025, we aim to have automated data ingestion pipelines for every province and territory and the largest 20 municipalities in Canada.
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Alberta
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British Columbia
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Ontario
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Quebec
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Saskatchewan
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Manitoba
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Nova Scotia
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New Brunswick
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Prince Edward Island
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Yukon
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Northwest Territories
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Nunavut
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Toronto
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Ottawa
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Montreal
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Vancouver #79
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Calgary #81
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Edmonton #82
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Winnipeg #83
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Hamilton
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London
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Mississauga
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Brampton
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Markham
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Oakville
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Halifax
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Saint John
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St. John's
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Charlottetown
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Surrey
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Moncton
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Quebec City
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Victoria
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Vaughan
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Markham
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Gatineau
Canada Spends is a NextJS app. To run it, run:
pnpm install
pnpm run dev
This project uses ESLint with Next.js configuration. Run linting with:
pnpm lint # Check for linting issues
pnpm lint:fix # Auto-fix auto-fixable issuesThe linting configuration enforces TypeScript best practices, React rules, and Next.js optimizations while keeping most issues as warnings (temporarily) to avoid blocking development.
This project automatically runs linting checks before each commit using simple-git-hooks. This is enabled automatically when you run pnpm install. If you need to enable it manually:
npx simple-git-hooksIf linting fails, the commit will be blocked until issues are resolved.