What this site is, and what it is not
It collects the supplier schedules Capital Region local governments publish each year and makes them searchable in one place. It shows where money went, what the source said, and what remains unresolved.
It does not issue a verdict about any supplier, public body, person or conduct.
What the schedules are
Under B.C.’s Financial Information Act, municipalities and regional districts publish an annual Statement of Financial Information, including a schedule naming every supplier paid more than a set amount in the year, and the total paid to each. Payments under that amount appear only as one combined figure.
What one line tells you
It is
A disclosed annual aggregate: the total one body paid one printed name over one fiscal year.
It is not
An invoice, contract, transaction count or procurement finding. It doesn’t say what the money was for.
Adding up a body’s schedule gives its disclosed supplier dollars, not its total spending. Wages, small payments, some grants and transfers are reported elsewhere or not itemised. A share of that total is a share of disclosed supplier dollars, never a market share, never HHI, and never evidence of dominance.
How names work
Names are shown as each schedule printed them. The site puts names that differ only in capitals, spacing or punctuation on one page, and says so. Matching names are a label_overlap, a search aid, never an entity overlap: two schedules printing the same name have not been shown to mean the same company, and a law firm’s “In Trust” account is not its client.
Names that differ only in how the schedule ended them (Ltd or Limited, a truncated word) are pointed out as look-alikes. They keep their own pages and are never added together.
How notices work
Simple screens run over the schedules: large changes between years, lines at the disclosure threshold, names in more than one schedule, and how concentrated each schedule is. Every notice has five parts:
- 1The observation, with the source line it came from
- 2Why it is notable, in neutral terms
- 3The trail a reader can follow to check it
- 4What it may mean, framed as a question
- 5What it does not prove
notices reviewed by a named person so far. Automated checks can’t close that gate.
The site never uses words that imply wrongdoing unless a competent authority has made that specific finding.
How numbers are checked
Each amount links to the official document it was read from, at the page and line where it appears. Amounts are stored as exact cents, never rounded.
Where a schedule prints its own total, the lines are added up and compared with it. When they differ, both figures are published and the difference is recorded as an exception. No line is edited to make a total match. See the checks.
Coverage
4 of the region’s 30 local public bodies are held, fiscal 2023–2025 (Oak Bay 2024 isn’t held). This is not a census of the region: absence from this site is not evidence that a body paid nothing. See the coverage list.
- Capital Regional District: scanned pages, checked line by line.
- City of Victoria: official machine-readable file.
- District of Oak Bay: official PDF linked, not stored.
- District of Saanich: official PDF linked, not stored.
Dataset Capital Region Public Spend · schema 1.4 · built 2026-09-20