PolitiData
Follow the money and influence
in Canadian politics.
Twenty years of Canadian lobbying registrations, meetings with public office holders, and political contributions, in one normalized, queryable feed. Built for reporters, newsrooms, and researchers digging into who is funding whom and who is lobbying for what.
For investigative reporters, political desks, and researchers covering money and influence in Canada.
Look up any riding's representatives
Find every elected official representing a postal code (federal, provincial, and municipal) in one search. A fast first step when you are chasing a local angle.
Why reporters use PolitiData
Skip the OCL portal scraping, the Elections Canada CSV merging, and the manual name-matching. Get clean, normalized records you can query in seconds.
Follow the lobbying
Search every registered lobbyist, client organization, and meeting with a public office holder. Filter by subject, department, or year. See who has been in the room on any issue.
Follow the money
Twenty years of political contributions to federal parties. Cross-reference donors with their lobbying activity to connect the money to the ask.
Bilingual & normalized
Every record carries EN and FR fields. Lobbyist names, client orgs, departments, and subjects reconciled across 20 years of disclosures, so one name search actually finds everything.
API + alerts
REST API with profile endpoints for any contributor or organization. Set up alerts to catch new filings as they land, or pull bulk history for a deep dive.
Three datasets, one API
Federal political financing and lobbying intelligence from two authoritative Canadian sources.
Powerful, consistent API
Search lobbying activity, profile any donor or organization, track new filings. One key, every endpoint.
Who it's for
Different desks use PolitiData different ways. Same data, different story.
Investigative reporters
Cross-reference donors with lobbying activity across two decades. Surface the connections between political money and policy outcomes, with a paper trail you can cite.
Political & data desks
Pull the numbers behind a story in minutes: who lobbied on a bill, which donors backed a campaign, how a sector's spending moved over time.
Freelancers & fact-checkers
Check a claim against the live registry. Confirm a meeting happened, a donation was made, or a lobbyist was registered, from an authoritative source.
Researchers & watchdogs
Twenty years of normalized disclosure data for accountability work, academic study, and transparency projects.
Pricing
Self-serve API access on RapidAPI. Working on a story and need a bulk export or a custom feed? Talk to us.