The Sunshine List, officially known as the "Publicly Funded Organizations (PFO) Executive Compensation Roundtable Report," was initiated in 2018 by the Ontario government. It was designed to increase transparency and accountability in the compensation of executives in the public sector. The list includes the names and compensation details of executives earning over $100,000 in publicly funded organizations. The primary goal was to ensure that the public had access to information about how their tax dollars were being spent on executive salaries.