Democratic accountability campaign
Our Demands
We are not alleging criminal wrongdoing. We are calling for a higher democratic standard to protect public confidence in federal decision-making.
1) Voluntary Full Divestment
We call on the Prime Minister to voluntarily divest any residual financial interests that may create perceived conflicts in sectors or geographies materially affected by federal policy, trade, investment, procurement, or strategic partnership decisions.
Why: Legal compliance is important, but public confidence requires avoiding avoidable appearance-of-conflict risks.
2) Plain-Language Public Disclosure
We call for a plain-language public explanation of all relevant safeguards, including what interests were divested, what remains (if anything), how screening works, and what the limits of those safeguards are.
Why: Technical filings alone are often inaccessible to the public. Trust depends on understandable disclosure.
3) Public Recusal Protocol
We call for a published recusal protocol describing when and how recusal decisions are made in matters that may affect sectors, regions, entities, or counterparties linked to prior financial interests or compensation structures.
Why: A visible process is stronger than case-by-case assurances.
4) Rule-by-Exception Transparency
If discretionary exemption tools or accelerated pathways are used, decisions should be publicly logged with dates, legal basis, rationale, duration, and beneficiary entity names (subject only to lawful redactions).
Why: Democracies need auditable records when normal rules are altered or exceptions are granted.
5) Independent Oversight Review
We call for independent review and/or parliamentary scrutiny of conflict-risk safeguards and any exemption/fast-track governance mechanisms with significant public impact.
Why: Trust is strongest when standards are externally tested, not only internally asserted.
Principle
This campaign applies to any current or future prime minister or senior official. Our standard is non-partisan: where public duty and private financial exposure may overlap, the remedy is stronger transparency and reduced ambiguity.