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What is being compared

Each row of the comparison table is one published measure:

• Integrity grade and score. The composite 0–100 figure and its letter grade, built from weighted factors across disclosure and conflicts, participation and legislative work, and money and influence. See the methodology for the full list.
• Vote attendance. The share of recorded divisions held in the member's session that the member took part in. Voice votes leave no individual trace anywhere in Canada, so they cannot appear here.
• Trades filed. The count of trading activity carried in the member's filings, where their jurisdiction publishes it.
• Conflict review signals. Points where a member's disclosed holdings overlap the sectors their committees oversee. A signal is a prompt to look at the underlying filing, never a finding of wrongdoing.
• Score factors. The per-factor percentages behind the composite, so you can see which part of the score is doing the work. Higher is stronger.

Where the data comes from

Both columns are assembled from the same official sources as the rest of the site: disclosure filings from the federal Ethics Commissioner's public registry and the provincial integrity commissioners, recorded divisions from the House of Commons and the Ontario Legislative Assembly, and contact records from the lobbying registries. Nothing on this page is an estimate or a projection.

How to read a comparison honestly

Compare within a chamber. This is the single rule that matters. Scores only count the factors a member's legislature actually publishes — missing data is left out of the calculation rather than scored as zero — so two members of the same chamber are measured against the same set of feeds, while a federal MP and a member of a roster-only provincial legislature are not. Put those two side by side and much of the gap is a difference in what their governments publish.

Two members of the same caucus is usually the more revealing comparison. Party affiliation is not an input to the score, so a cross-party comparison tends to surface the same structural differences over and over. Two colleagues in the same party, the same chamber and the same session differ on things they individually control.

A blank is not a zero. Where a measure is missing it is missing, and a member with fewer than three data streams is shown as Unscored rather than given a grade. Treat an empty cell as a question to take to the source, not as a bad result.

What this tool will not tell you

It holds no assessment of policy, competence or constituency service, and no ranking of parties. It will not tell you how wealthy a representative is either: Canadian public disclosure summaries name categories of assets and liabilities without publishing dollar amounts, so any net-worth figure derived from them is invented. See the guide on MP salary and net worth for what the filings do and do not contain, and data coverage for which feeds exist in which jurisdiction.