The registry
Canada already pays outsiders for information the state cannot see from the inside. The Ontario Securities Commission pays up to 5 million dollars for information about breaches of securities law. The Canada Revenue Agency pays an informant a share of the tax it recovers. A federal body that breaks an obligation it published itself carries no price at all, and outside the body nobody measures it.
What counts as a defect
A verifiable difference between an obligation a public body published and what the body did. The obligation has to come from a statute, a regulation, a published service standard, a published policy, or official guidance the body issued itself. A complaint about how an official behaved is not a defect. A disagreement with a decision is not a defect. The body writing one thing and doing another is.
An entry is accepted on four conditions.
- The obligation is named, with its source, in the version in force on the day of the conduct.
- The departure is proved by a document: the body's own letter, a file number, a dated page, a machine-readable record.
- Anyone outside can reproduce the check, or a document fixes it permanently.
- The class is stated.
How an entry is scored
Four axes, each from 0 to 3. The total sets the tier, and the tier sets the price.
| Axis | 0 | 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | one person | the whole country, or every client of the body |
| Harm | time lost | liberty, safety, status, children, life |
| Absence of a remedy | fixed by asking the same body | no legal route exists |
| Persistence | a single failure | the body confirmed it in writing, or continued after notice |
| Total | Tier | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10 to 12 | Critical | 1,500 CAD |
| 7 to 9 | High | 400 CAD |
| 4 to 6 | Medium | 100 CAD |
| 1 to 3 | Low | 25 CAD |
The price doubles where the defect comes from a rule the body applies to everyone it serves. It rises by half where the body does not correct the defect within 45 days of notice.
The entries
Time is not the constraint
Two offices answered written demands on other files in twenty-seven hours and in twelve hours. Both are recorded, with file numbers, under where an authority reversed itself. A body that can move in twelve hours when it chooses cannot explain a missed deadline by the size of its workload.
Two lines, three roles
A defect in a rule is one entry no matter how many people it crossed. Every person it was applied to is a separate entry of their own. Both lines are paid.
- The finder describes the defect as a mechanism and proves the obligation. Full price of the tier.
- The person it was applied to shows it was applied to them, with a document. Their own entry, scored on their own harm, never less than a quarter of the price of the defect.
- The corroborator reproduces the defect in another office, another file, another date. A tenth of the price, for the first three.
Ten people recorded against one defect raise its reach by a point and the defect is scored again, upward, for everyone already on it. The only entry refused is an empty one: same defect, same body, no new case, no new date.
Submissions
[email protected], in either official language: the obligation, its source, the document that proves the departure, the class.
Not accepted: material obtained by breaking into a system, another person’s personal information without their written consent, an opinion about how an employee behaved, and a claim with no document behind it.
The drafted bill that would put this scheme into federal law, administered by an office that already exists and paid for out of the appropriation of the body at fault, is drafted.
Citation: Danilo Dzyuban, “The registry” (8 September 2026), dzyuban.com/registry.