Methods behind the money
Money
Elections Canada returns are public. We do not invent donor names on this desk.
Financial support, lobbying, public awards, bidders & defense contractors, related entities, and assets are separate pipes. We do not mash them into an influence score. A hole stays a hole. Names print only where a filing already named them. We do not store a home address.
Open influence — committee seat × fundraising base · Bidders & defense contractors
Pipes
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Financial support
Even where campaign filings are public, names print only as filed. An unnamed cell stays a hole.
hole
Lobbying support
Lobbying filings are not loaded on this kit. We do not fill client lists from a hash.
hole
Public money
Grants, contracts, and subsidies are a separate pipe. We do not mash them with campaign cash into an influence score.
sourced
Bidders & defense contractors
Awarded 40. Separate UEIs stay separate. Unawarded SAM stays a hole. We do not attach a recipient to a member.
open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d8f85d91-7dec-4fd1-8055-483b77225d8b
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Assets
Asset filings print only where a public register exists. Empty seats stay empty.
hole
Related entities
Nonprofit filings, related LLCs, insider deals, and corporations the 990 already named. We do not invent a network.
Primary desks
Public filings. Follow the register. Names print only where the filing already names them.
Elections Canada
Political-party and candidate returns. Names print only where the return names them.
Commissioner of Lobbying
Federal lobbyist registry. Client lists stay empty until a filing is loaded.
Open Government Canada
Proactive disclosure of federal contracts. Awarded names only.
How the pipes work
Methods are sequences on public filings. Names a register already printed — PAC, corporation, contractor, 990 related org — go on the page. We do not store a home address. Third-party reporting is not a corpus.
hole · Public filing
Start with the wire
Press release is not the start. Amount, date, and who signed. Then the filing.
sourced · Public filing
Follow the money to the top
Sort by dollars. The structure at the top of the award list is the story, not the campaign slogan. Live USASpending does this sort. We do not invent a rank.
sourced · Public filing
Primary documents only
USASpending, SAM, LDA, FARA, 990, PACER. A commentary piece is not a source.
sourced · Public filing
OSINT, public signals only
Public signals only. We do not invent a classified corpus. The .gov page is the start.
hole · Public filing
Intel oversight by committee
The public record of the intelligence committee (or equivalent). We do not fill a classified dump. The committee of jurisdiction is the start.
hole · Public filing
Hearing attendance & testimony
GovInfo CHRG and the committee’s own archive. Attendance is a clerk mark. Do not infer it from a clip.
hole · Public filing
Multi-session pledge consistency
Same person, more than one session, same issue, each sentence with http(s). The party ticket is never the score. Hole until more sourced sentences land.
sourced · Public filing
Cross-border PAC / donor stems
Streams → Shared names. A stem on two desks is co-occurrence, not one legal entity. Finance harvests outside US/Canada are still holes.
No member money on this desk
The pipes above are the method. Totals wait for a harvest. We do not reconstruct a donor list from a hash.