How we make public decisions accountable.
IIBD follows a consistent path — from mapping a decision to measuring whether it improved. Here is the pathway and the method behind our work.
Every public decision runs through the same path.
We review each step for who it counts and who it leaves behind — then help partners correct it.
Data collected
Who is missing?
Rules applied
Who is screened out?
Systems automated
Who can challenge it?
Outcomes measured
Did access improve?
Decision corrected
What changed?
Who Canada's public decisions affect.
Scroll through the numbers behind the systems we review — the people a form, a rule, or an algorithm can quietly count, support, or screen out.
41 million people live under Canada's public systems.
Every one of them is counted — or missed — by the data behind eligibility rules, benefit programs, and automated decisions. Ontario alone accounts for nearly 16 million.
8.0 million live with a disability — and the share climbs with age.
More than one in four Canadians aged 15+ has a disability. When intake forms and screening tools aren't built for them, exclusion is designed in from the start.
Women still earn less for every hour worked.
Gaps like this don't only live in pay — they're reproduced by the datasets and models that decide who gets hired, screened, or supported. That's the work we review.