Canada

Find details about Canada's beneficial ownership transparency reforms

Records last updated: 08 November 2023

Contact person: Karabo Rajuili

Current ongoing work

We are providing support to authorities who are using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for the public federal register.

Committed to one or more

  • Implementing
    After work starts on implementing a register, a country is in the Implementing stage.

Implemented one or more

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Implementation details

Commitment details

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  • Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by the end of 2023 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2023 Federal Budget [28 March 2023] link to commitment
  • Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by 2025 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2021 Federal Budget. [19 April 2021] link to commitment
  • Canada has committed to a public beneficial ownership register by 2023 through a commitment by the federal government in the 2022 Federal Budget [07 April 2022] link to commitment
  • Canada has reiterated its plans to create a “publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry” by the end of 2023 as part of its 2022-2024 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [22 September 2022] link to commitment
  • Canada has committed to using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for the public federal register which the country is planning to launch by the end of 2023 [31 March 2023] link to commitment