Help save your tax money

Thank you very much to everyone who has donated recently to support Democracy Watch’s campaigns for changes to help save you tax money. Please help spread the word by clicking here to choose your favourite campaign and share it by email, Facebook or Twitter with your friends.

If you haven’t donated recently, did you know that Democracy Watch is the only group in Canada working to protect you from governments wasting your tax money in the following 7 ways:

pushing for every government to set up a Truth-in-Budgeting Officer to ensure governments don’t lie about the costs of their programs – click here to see details (the federal Officer stopped the federal government from wasting more than $35,000,000,000 on fighter jets);
also with the same campaign, pushing for stronger powers for Auditor General offices across Canada – click here to see details;
pushing the federal government to put conditions on its loan to Bombardier, and every other big business the government supports – click here for details;
as MetroNews reported recently, and also CBC, pushing for changes to stop big businesses, unions and wealthy individuals in B.C. and across Canada from making big donations that buy spending favours from politicians – click here to see details;
as iPolitics reported recently, pushing for strong protections for people who blow the whistle on government waste – click here to see details;
Democracy Watch is also the only group pushing to stop politicians from appointing their unqualified friends to key government jobs – click here to see details;
and the only group pushing for changes to stop politicians from lying to you about government waste – click here to see details.

That’s right – Democracy Watch is the only organization pushing to stop all these ways that governments waste your money (and lie to you about the waste). And Democracy Watch is effective – more effective at winning changes for you than any other citizen organization in Canada in the past 20 years.

Democracy Watch has already won more than 110 key changes for you cleaning up politics and banking in Canada – click here to see the list of changes.

Please click here to make a one-time or monthly donation now to help make governments and big businesses serve you better, and to stop their abuses of power across Canada. Even $5 a month will help win more protections for you!

With your ongoing support Democracy Watch can stop even more government waste.

Without your support, Democracy Watch can’t stop any government waste – it just can’t.

I know you want this waste stopped – we can do it together!

Democracy Watch doesn’t need your support to pay for a big office or big pay for its staff – because Democracy Watch doesn’t waste your money on those things. In fact, Democracy Watch has the lowest costs of any national citizen advocacy group in Canada.

But Democracy Watch does need your support for:

taking government officials to court when they don’t do their job (Democracy Watch currently has a court case against the federal Ethics Commissioner, and a court case against the B.C. Ethics Commissioner – both for failing to enforce ethics rules);
pursuing ethics complaints (the federal Lobbying Commissioner is currently investigating three complaints that Democracy Watch filed);
letter-writing and petition campaigns (Democracy Watch currently has 15 campaigns sending tens of the thousands of letters to politicians across Canada calling for key changes to stop abuses of power);
and for media campaigns (Democracy Watch has been in the news more than 400 times already in 2017 shining a spotlight on abuses of power by politicians and big businesses).

Please join the thousands of people across Canada supporting Democracy Watch’s campaigns to win changes to protect you and your family from waste of your tax money.

Thank you so much for your support,
Duff, Josephine
and everyone at Democracy Watch

P.S. Thank you very much again to everyone who has donated recently. If you haven’t donated, even $5 a month will help Democracy Watch stop government waste across Canada that hurts you and your family. Your donation here will be very much appreciated, and very effectively used to win key changes to protect you.