After 15 years of successful campaigning and engagement for a more transparent mining, oil and gas sector, the Publish What You Pay Canada coalition has officially wound down. Many members of PWYP-Canada continue to be active in the fields of extractive sector transparency and accountability via the global Publish What You Pay coalition.
PWYP-Canada’s advocacy – which included a groundbreaking collaboration with the mining sector through the Resource Revenue Transparency Working Group – was instrumental to the adoption of Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA). Further, it played a key role in kickstarting the #Endsnowwashing coalition between Canadians For Tax Fairness and Transparency International Canada and which successfully achieved legislation for a federal publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry for Canadian companies as tool to combat dirty money and corruption.
The End Snow-washing campaign is currently active and continues to work towards a pan-Canadian beneficial ownership registry with provinces and the federal government. For media enquiries and campaign information, please visit www.endsnowingwashing.ca.
Extending transparency
Identify and campaign for further information that needs to be in the public domain for people to use. This includes improving government disclosure and beneficial ownership transparency in Canada, and supporting contract transparency and open data globally.
Putting transparency to work
Work to build the capacity of PWYP Canada coalition members, partners and the global PWYP coalition to access information on Canadian companies and to use it in their advocacy, research and outreach efforts.
Increasing civic participation
Promote, support and defend the rights of people, particularly the most underrepresented, to be involved in the decisions that affect them.
We envision a world where all people and communities benefit
from their natural resources, today and tomorrow.
