Democracy Watch

Democracy Watch

Democracy Watch is Canada’s leading citizen group advocating democratic reform, government accountability and corporate responsibility, and the most successful national citizen advocacy group in Canada over the past 10 years in winning systemic changes to key laws.

Democracy Watch is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian organization that opened its doors in October 1993 and launched its first campaign in April 1994. 

Democracy Watch works with Canadian citizens and organizations in pushing Canadian governments and businesses to empower Canadians in their roles as voters, citizens, taxpayers, consumers and shareholders. Our aim is to help reform Canadian government and business institutions to bring them into line with the realities of a modern, working democracy.

Democracy Watch’s work for democratic reform is based upon the following principles:

• Canadians need access to full and timely information about government and business activities;
• Canadians need meaningful rights to participate and be represented in Canada’s political system;
• Canadians need easily accessible remedies against government and corporate waste, abuse and misrepresentation;
• Accountability measures are needed wherever there are concentrations of power in society; and
• Measures must be enacted to help Canadians band together as citizens, consumers and taxpayers.

Website: http://www.dwatch.ca/