Records last updated: 11 June 2024
Contact person: Tymon Kiepe
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership is providing support to authorities who are using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for the public federal register. We are also working with the province of British Columbia to implement a regional register expected in 2025, and with the End Snow-Washing Coalition on a project to amplify beneficial ownership transparency advocacy inside and outside Canada.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implemented one or more
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Implementation details
Individuals with significant control register
- Name
- Individuals with significant control register
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2024
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 25%
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- Planned
- Available via API
- No
Commitment details
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- Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by the end of 2023 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2023 Federal Budget [28 March 2023] link to commitment
- Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by 2025 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2021 Federal Budget. [19 April 2021] link to commitment
- Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by 2023 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2022 Federal Budget [07 April 2022] link to commitment
- Canada has reiterated its plans to create a “publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry” by the end of 2023 as part of its 2022-2024 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [22 September 2022] link to commitment
- Canada has committed to using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for the public federal register which the country is planning to launch by the end of 2023 [31 March 2023] link to commitment
- At the 2023 Summit for Democracy, Canada committed to effective implementation of beneficial ownership transparency measures and the maintenance of a beneficial ownership registry or an alternative mechanism [29 March 2023] link to commitment
