Canadian PEP (Politically Exposed Person)
Overview
A Canadian PEP is an individual who holds—or has held within the last 5 years—a prescribed senior public office at the federal, provincial/territorial, or municipal level. This explicitly includes: Mayors and Reeves (municipal chief officers), Heads of government agencies, and Presidents of Crown corporations (i.e., corporations wholly owned by His Majesty in right of Canada or a province). Foreign PEPs in equivalent roles are treated as PEPs indefinitely, and Heads of International Organizations (HIOs) also carry a 5-year lookback.
Source: FINTRAC PEP & HIO guidance — https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/guidance-directives/client-clientele/pep/pep-eng
Pergamon policy on Indigenous leaders: While FINTRAC's prescribed list does not expressly name Indigenous Chiefs, Pergamon classifies Indigenous Chiefs as PEPs under our risk-based framework and applies the same controls as for domestic PEPs.
About this data
Scope - Domestic Canadian PEP
This dataset covers individuals who hold or have held within the last 5 years the following positions in Canada:
- Governor General, lieutenant governor or head of government
- Member of the Senate or House of Commons or member of a legislature
- Deputy minister or equivalent rank
- Ambassador, or attaché or counsellor of an ambassador
- Military officer with a rank of general or above
- President of a corporation that is wholly owned directly by His Majesty in right of Canada or a province
- Head of a government agency
- Judge of an appellate court in a province, the Federal Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of Canada
- Leader or president of a political party represented in a legislature
- Mayor, reeve or other similar chief officer of a municipal or local government
- Indigenous chiefs
Relatives & Close Associates (RCA)
Included. Our RCA approach emphasizes ancillary roles with material influence around the Direct PEP—for example, Chief Financial Officer to a Crown-corp CEO, board members, senior advisors, and comparable roles that can reasonably exert influence.
Structure & linkages
Each record is jurisdiction-tagged, role-typed (e.g., Mayor/Reeve, Agency Head, Crown-corp President), time-bounded (start/end or "as of"), and linked to RCAs and documented name variants to support entity resolution and screening accuracy.
Frequency of updates
Our Canadian PEP dataset is updated weekly to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Sample Data
Below is a sample of our Canadian PEP dataset. Scroll to explore the data structure and fields.
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