Canada Spends

We built a tool to make it easy for Canadians to understand how First Nations are funded and how they spend that money. We scraped over 10,000 financial statements and schedules of remuneration that First Nations disclosed under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act. We then processed those documents to extract revenue, expenses, accumulated surplus (which includes both financial assets and physical assets like roads and water systems) and council remuneration into an easily processable format. We also scraped historical data going back to 2007 of First Nations registered population to make it easy to understand the scale of our First Nations. Lastly, we scraped First Nations legal Claim data from the Reporting Centre on Specific Claims. This is all accessible on our easy to use, fast website with source documents accessible directly from the page for easy verification.