Government promises
Every commitment the Prime Minister has formally tasked each minister with via a mandate letter. Two cycles covered:
- 2015–2019 (Trudeau 42nd Parliament) — 430 commitments, with PCO-reported progress status.
- 2021 (Trudeau 44th Parliament) — 760 commitments. Letters were published but PCO never released a public status tracker for this cycle, so no progress data.
The Carney government (2025–, 45th Parliament) hasn't been ingested yet — it's on the roadmap.
Why does the status disappear after 2019?
The Privy Council Office's public mandate-letter tracker only ran for the 2015–2019 cycle. After that election the tracker was quietly retired — the 2021 mandate letters were published as text but the government never restored a public progress tracker. So no official Canadian source reports commitment-level status for 2021 onward.
Coming soon: we're building an LLM-curated status layer that scans government press releases, departmental progress reports, and news mentions to estimate progress on the 2021+ commitments. It will be clearly labelled as kyg-assessed, not government-reported, with the reasoning + sources shown for each commitment. Refresh cadence will be monthly.
Don't want the gap papered over without a clear signal of who's making the call.
Status — 2015–2019 cycle only(430 commitments · government-reported)
- Actions taken, progress madeFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Strengthen oversight on government advertising.
- Completed - fully metFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Improve the use of evidence in program evaluation.
- Actions taken, progress madeFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Bargain in good faith with Canada's public sector unions.
- Completed - fully metFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Improve reporting to Parliament.
- Completed - fully metFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Modernize the Communications Policy of the government to reflect the modern digital environment.
- Completed - fully metFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Take a more modern approach to comptrollership.
- Actions taken, progress madeGovernment Services and OperationsPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Ensure that a fixed percentage of funds is devoted to experimenting with new approaches to challenges and measure the impact of programs.
- Actions taken, progress madeFair and Open GovernmentPresident of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Governmentupdated Mar 22, 2019
Exercise due diligence regarding costing analysis prepared by departments for all proposed legislation and programs.