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Québec keeps a fuller record than this one. The Registre des entreprises publishes each registered business’s directors, officers and ultimate beneficiaries — the ownership question no federal source answers in bulk. It is not reproduced here: it is published under a licence forbidding commercial use and requiring derivatives to carry the same terms, which this project will not impose on the open data it is joined to. Search it directly: Registre des entreprises du Québec. Why it is not used here.

This is a different fact from public money above: a standing offer or supply arrangement means the government has pre-agreed to buy specific goods or services from this organisation at set terms if it chooses to — it does not mean any money has changed hands. The source publishes only currently active agreements and carries no dollar figure at all, unlike the contract value field, which sometimes states a ceiling rather than a payment. How this is attached.

Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth.

Declared project value is not money anyone paid this business. It is the cost of the work as estimated on the permit application, which is what the city collects to set its fee — not revenue, not a contract, and never audited. It is kept well away from the public money on this page for that reason.

Permits are matched to this record by business name alone, and only where that name means exactly one organisation in the whole national corpus. A permit’s address is the property’s, not the builder’s, so it is discarded rather than used to help the match — otherwise a homebuilder would be joined to whichever unrelated company shares a postal area with a lot it once worked on. Where a name is shared, the permit is left unattached rather than guessed at, so these totals are a floor. How this is attached.

Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.