This is good news. Anti-poverty activist Daniel Haran has written some code which lets you match postal codes to federal Members of Parliament. His goal — and likely the goal of many other activists — is to harness the power of the databases for political and social justice purposes. Now you'd think it would be dead simple to get a list of postal codes mapped to members of Parliament and if you thought that way you would be mistaken. It's dead simple if you're well-funded professional marketing agency and can afford to pay the federal government thousands of dollars for this data. Don't get me started …
In the meantime, Haran has made the dataset available in a variety of formats that should let you plug it in easily into whatever spreadsheet or database application you're using. Grab it now before the government sues him to shut it down!
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