Our Mission
Engagement
Power your democracy. Know your representatives by name, reach them directly, and make your voice count at every level of government.
Accountability
Government works for you. We track public spending, representative records, and policy decisions, giving you the tools to demand answers.
Transparency
Open data, open government. Every boundary, every dollar, every vote made visible. Because informed citizens make better democracies.
Community
Democracy is local. Connect with your neighbours around shared priorities, amplify your community's voice, and shape the decisions that affect your street.
People
Most Canadians don't know who represents them at all three levels of government. Let alone how to reach them, what they stand for, or how public money is being spent in their community. Votes changes that.
- ✦Know your reps. See every elected official representing your address. Federal, provincial, and municipal. In seconds.
- ✦Track policy priorities. Understand where your representatives stand on the issues that matter to your community.
- ✦Follow the money. Explore government grants and contributions flowing into your riding. Every dollar, mapped.
- ✦Contact directly. Email, call, or connect on social. Every contact method, one place.
- ✦Express your priorities. Allocate your political priorities across policy areas and show your representatives what issues matter most to you.
- ✦Stay election-ready. Compare platforms, track records, and make confident decisions when it counts.
Politicians
Voters are paying attention and they want more than a pamphlet. Votes gives elected officials and candidates a structured, credible platform to communicate their vision, demonstrate accountability, and build genuine trust with the people they serve.
- ✦Publish your platform. Clearly outline your policy priorities across 12 issue areas. Structured, verifiable, and visible to every constituent.
- ✦Engage your riding. Connect with constituents directly inside the tool they use to understand their government.
- ✦Showcase fiscal wins. Highlight the grants and investments you helped bring to your community, backed by real data.
- ✦Build a verified profile. A structured, trusted profile that voters find when they search for who represents them.
- ✦Demonstrate accountability. Show voters your record between elections. Not just during campaign season.
- ✦Stand out with clarity. In a crowded field, clear positions and real data separate leaders from politicians.
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Access Simplified
Real data from the Votes platform, updated regularly.
Electoral boundaries mapped across all layers of government.
Elected officials linked to their communities.
Town halls, elections, and public meetings surfaced.
Government spending mapped to communities.
Active political parties tracked across all layers.
AI For Good
Civic data is vast, scattered, and often impenetrable. We use artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. Surfacing what matters, simplifying what's complex, and automating what's tedious, so that every Canadian can engage with their government on equal footing.
Surface
We continuously scan hundreds of thousands of public records: government grants, electoral boundaries, and spending reports. The data that affects your community, brought directly to you.
Simplify
Policy documents and government data are written for bureaucrats, not citizens. Our AI translates complex public information into plain language that anyone can read, understand, and act on.
Automate
From linking 247,000 fiscal records to electoral boundaries to generating representative profiles from public data, AI automates the slow work so the platform stays current without manual effort.
Rebuild Trust
Distrust in institutions grows when people feel uninformed. When citizens can see where money is spent, who made the decision, and how to respond, transparency becomes the foundation of renewed trust.