It's your money.

Every year the Government of Canada spends hundreds of billions of dollars. It is your money — you earned it, it was taken in tax, and you have every right to know where it goes.

Most of that spending is already public. By law, contracts, grants, salaries and expenses are disclosed — then left in government databases almost nobody reads: spreadsheets, codes and PDFs built to be filed, not understood.

Ottawasted does one thing. Every morning we pull real federal spending out of those records, explain it in plain language, and ask you one question: was it worth it?

We don't hand you the answer. We don't speak for any political party — wasteful spending isn't partisan, and the absurd, the baffling and the perfectly reasonable all turn up under every government. Every figure traces back to the public record. You read it, you vote, you decide.

Why do this? Because it is your money, and you deserve to see it spent in the open. Governments spend more carefully when people are paying attention. This is a way to pay attention — about two minutes a day.