Votes is an evolving civic platform. This roadmap outlines what we have built, what we are building next, and where we are headed. We believe in building in the open.
We mapped every Federal, Provincial, and Municipal electoral boundary across Canada. This involved extensive data sourcing, processing, and standardization to create a single, consistent picture of how communities are divided for each layer of government.
Using official government sources and web research, we built a directory of elected officials for every boundary layer. Every MP, MLA, and Councillor is linked to their community so Canadians can instantly see who speaks for them.
We built an automated process that continuously rotates through community and representative data, using AI to clean, fill gaps, and create a rich, accurate profile for each community and the people representing it.
Using AI, we surface community events such as town halls, public meetings, and elections from across the web and link them directly to the communities and representatives they belong to.
We extracted and mapped over 247,000 federal grants and contributions to the communities they flow into, making public spending visible and searchable at the community level for the first time.
We laid the groundwork for full bilingual support, with initial infrastructure in place to serve Canadians in both English and French, with broader language support planned.
A simple, visual tool that lets constituents, representatives, and candidates express how they would distribute their attention and energy across the functions of government. This helps surface what matters most to communities and creates a common language between the people and those representing them.
We will extract, summarize, and simplify the real records of debate and voting from the House of Commons, provincial legislative assemblies, and municipal councils. Every statement, vote, and decision will be mapped directly to the community and representative it belongs to, making the public record genuinely accessible.
Building on our multi-language foundation, AI-powered translation will make all content summaries available in the preferred language of the reader, removing language as a barrier to civic participation.
Tools for elected officials and candidates to manage their presence on the platform, coordinate with their teams, and publish their platform directly to constituents.
Features built specifically around community learning, discussion, and participation, helping constituents understand their government, connect with neighbours, and take informed action.
Votes is built to grow. We are continuously investigating new data sources, new layers of government, and new ways to use technology in service of democratic participation.