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Politicians and ridings

Every politician in the database has a profile page that gathers their term history, recent speeches, votes, social presence, and (where available) constituency offices.

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What's on a politician profile

Header
Current role, party, riding, jurisdiction, and a portrait if the legislature publishes one.
Term history
Every continuous period this person has held a particular role — party affiliations, ridings, start and end dates. Useful for tracing floor crossings and re-election history.
Recent speeches
The latest Hansard contributions, with a link into the full transcript and the search system. Click any speech to see it in context with surrounding interventions.
Voting record
(Where available) Votes cast on bills, with the bill's title and final outcome.
Socials
Public social-media handles (Twitter / X, Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) where the politician has confirmed accounts. We do not publish posts content — we just link to where they speak publicly.
Offices
(Where available) Constituency office addresses and phone numbers as published by the politician's own site or the legislature.

Finding a specific person

  • By name — the search box at the top of the directory.
  • By riding — search the riding name; the directory lists who currently holds it.
  • By party — filter to one or more parties.
  • By jurisdiction — filter to federal, or one or more provinces / territories.

Why someone might be missing

If you can't find someone you expect:

  1. Their legislature may not yet be covered. Check the coverage page.
  2. They may use a different legal name than the one you searched. Try the riding instead.
  3. They may have left office very recently and the upstream roster hasn't updated yet. Try filtering by party + jurisdiction without a name.
  4. We may have a bug. Submit a correction and we'll investigate.

Historical politicians

We keep historical politicians in the database — former MPs, MLAs, etc. You can find them through search, but they don't show up by default in the directory's "current" view. Toggle the "include former" filter to see them.

How far back history goes depends on the jurisdiction:

  • Federal: back to roughly the 1990s for a near-complete roster (sourced from OpenParliament + Library of Parliament).
  • Provincial: varies widely. Some provinces publish complete historical rosters; others only their current sitting.

What's not on a profile

  • Personal contact information beyond what the politician themselves publishes (their constituency office, their public email).
  • Family information — even when public.
  • Donations data — see Elections Canada and provincial Chief Electoral Officers for that.

We are deliberately conservative about what we publish for individuals. Public-facing speech and votes, yes; private life or attempted-private life, no.