When talking about transparency, let's not forget about the Elections Canada contribution and expenditure database. While it isn't in HTML, the search method is more than clunky and varies wildly between elections (presumably because of changing reporting requirements in the Elections Act) Much of my day is spent trying to extract information from government websites, so this is sort of a pet peeve for me. Some easy ways that government could make information more accessible to the public: 1) The Parliamentary Library's treatment of legislation is top notch (I heart RSS feeds), but in the text of proposed (or passed) legislation, can't they link to the various acts that are being changed? It's all on line. 2) Figure out a way of telling me when new information is posted. DFAIT (kinda) does this with the travel advisory updates, but other government sites which contain substantially more complex information do not. If the spreadsheet I use for my hockey pool can tell people when I've made changes, presumably the government of Canada can do the same.