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Submitting corrections

If you spot something wrong on the site — a wrong party affiliation, a mis-attributed speech, a missing constituency office, a riding showing the wrong current member — submit a correction. If we accept it, we fix it; if you're signed in, you also earn credits.

How to submit

Two ways:

  1. From the page itself. Most pages (politician profiles, speeches, bills, riding pages) have a small "Suggest a correction" link at the bottom. The form opens with the relevant record pre-filled, so you only need to describe what's wrong.

  2. By email. Send the issue to corrections@canadianpoliticaldata.org. Include a link to the page in question if possible. Email submissions are triaged into the same queue.

You don't need an account to submit a correction, but you do need one to earn credits for it.

What we'll accept

  • Factual data fixes with a verifiable source — wrong party, wrong riding, wrong dates, a typo in a speech that the upstream legislature has since corrected.
  • Missing entities — a politician we don't yet have a profile for, with a citation to their official legislature page.
  • Mis-attributed speech — a speech that's been recorded under the wrong speaker.
  • Stale information — an MP who has resigned and we still show as current.

What we won't act on (or will handle differently)

  • Edits to the substance of public legislative speech. Hansard is Hansard. If a politician says something we leave it as published; if they later correct themselves, the correction goes in as a separate note, not by editing the original.
  • Removing speeches because the speaker now disagrees with them. We don't memory-hole.
  • Personal attacks or unverified claims about politicians. Those are not corrections to data we publish; they're speculation, and we won't surface them.
  • Requests to remove a politician from the database entirely. Elected office is public, and we maintain an accurate historical record.

Source citations

Every accepted correction needs a verifiable source. Strong sources include:

  • The legislature's own member directory.
  • The politician's official site (constituency or campaign).
  • Elections Canada or a provincial Chief Electoral Officer.
  • Hansard itself, when correcting Hansard metadata.
  • A reputable news outlet for very-recent changes that haven't reached official sources yet (we'll cross-check before applying).

Earning credits

If you're signed in when you submit a correction, and we apply it, you earn credits automatically. The credits land in your account balance — you can spend them on reports or save them up.

The default reward per accepted correction is 10 credits. Bulk corrections (many records, one submission) are rewarded once unless they obviously took disproportionate research effort, in which case we sometimes top up manually.

You'll get an email when your correction is applied.

What happens after you submit

  1. Submission lands in the moderation queue.
  2. An admin reviews — usually within a few business days.
  3. Outcome:
    • Applied — we fix the data, you're emailed, credits granted (if signed in).
    • Triaged for follow-up — we need more info; we may email you to ask.
    • Declined — with a brief reason. You can re-submit with more evidence.

If a correction sits unanswered for more than two weeks, it's not lost — the queue is just deep. Email us if it's time-sensitive.