This is not at all to say that all, most or even many politicians, government employees or corporate executives are dishonest, unethical, secretive, non-representative or wasteful -- but if any of these people act in these ways they will often not be caught, let alone penalized, because of loopholes in laws and rules and weak enforcement systems.

Incredibly, the laws and enforcement of parking a car illegally are stronger than most government accountability and corporate responsibility laws and enforcement systems in Canada, and in some cases the penalties for parking illegally are higher than for government officials or corporate executives who act dishonestly, unethically, unrepresentatively, secretively or wastefully!

For the past more than 140 years, since Canada became a nation (and section 91 of the Constitution of Canada empowered politicians to "make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada"), politicians and government officials have not been passing strong good government laws, but instead have been playing a game by sometimes strengthening laws, but then weakening enforcement, or strengthening enforcement at the same time as creating loopholes in laws, and in almost every case penalties have remained too weak to discourage violations.

While governments and corporations do bad things for many reasons, often it is because they are operating in bad ways.  Especially when governments operate in bad ways, they usually do not require corporations to act in good ways (because they make secret deals behind closed doors with corporate lobbyists).

And unfortunately, the public always pays one way or another when governments or corporations act in bad ways.

See set out on this page are Action Alerts about Democracy Watch's campaigns to increase government accountability and corporate responsibility in Canada -- to ensure governments, politicians and their staff and appointees, and government employees, and corporations and corporate executives, all pay a price for acting irresponsibly.

Politicians, government officials, and big business executives are resisting changes to the system that would increase their accountability for wrongdoing.  They just don't get it, so we have to give it to them until they do!

Democracy Watch needs your support to clean up Canada's government accountability and corporate responsibility systems --- to strengthen the rules, the enforcement and the penalties for irresponsible activities by governments and corporations.

You can help clean up the system to prevent future scandals!

For general background on how the system is the scandal, read the following Democracy Watch article about the 
Many Changes Needed Before Canada Will Be a Democracy

Finally, if you think Democracy Watch is exaggerating how much Canada's government accountability and corporate responsibility systems are the scandal, consider the following survey results and reports:

(NOTE: For details about how to help clean up the Ontario provincial and municipal government's accountability system, click here and click here):

(NOTE: For details about how to help clean up the Ontario provincial corporate responsibility system, click here):