This is general information, not legal advice. Disclosure rules vary by province and change over time — confirm your situation with the publishing body or a qualified professional.
If you have found your name on the Sunshine List and want it gone, the honest answer is: the original government disclosure is public record, and in most cases you cannot have your name removed from it. But you do have some real options, and they are worth understanding.
Why the government record can't simply be deleted
The disclosure is required by law. The provincial government publishes it specifically so the public can see how taxpayer money is spent, and that legal requirement does not have an opt-out for individuals who earn above the threshold.
What you can do
- Request a correction if the data is wrong — a misspelled name, the wrong employer, or an incorrect figure. Errors do happen during data entry.
- Ask this site to remove or suppress your profile. We are an independent index, not the government. We honour reasonable removal requests for our own pages.
- Contact the publishing body (the provincial ministry or your employer) if you believe the underlying disclosure itself is inaccurate.
Removing your profile from this site does not remove you from the official government list — but it does take your name out of our search results.
How to make the request
You can submit a removal or correction request directly through our removal page. Tell us your name, the employer and year, and what you would like changed.