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Government of Canada

Federal government of Canada

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Dec 7, 2025
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How much of Canada's national debt is held domestically versus by foreign investors?

Foreign (non‑resident) investors held roughly $512–$527 billion of Government of Canada marketable debt in early 2025, equal to about one‑third to just over one‑half of various reported aggregates dep...

Jan 22, 2026
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What percentage of Canadian sovereign debt is owned by foreign central banks versus private investors?

’s marketable federal debt is predominantly held domestically—about 71% of market debt was held by Canadian investors in 2022–23, leaving roughly 29% in the hands of non‑resident (foreign) investors ....

Dec 13, 2025
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Which countries are the largest foreign holders of Canadian government bonds?

Official data and central-bank analysis show that non-residents — a group that includes foreign central banks, sovereign wealth funds and overseas asset managers — are among the largest holders of Gov...

Jan 13, 2026

Which countries hold the most Canadian government bonds as of the latest monthly data?

Official monthly publications available in the provided reporting do not disclose a country-by-country ranking of who holds the most Government of Canada bonds; Statistics Canada and the Bank of Canad...

Jan 31, 2026

Can Canadians collect there pensions if they don't live in Canada

: Pension Plan (CPP)/ payments continue once eligibility is met and can be paid outside Canada but only under specific residency rules or via that can fill gaps (; ) . Federal retirement benefits are ...

Dec 17, 2025

How did Dr. D. Ewen Cameron’s “psychic driving” experiments operate and who were his documented patients?

Donald Ewen Cameron’s “psychic driving” was a staged psychiatric procedure of the 1950s–60s that combined tape-loop repetition of verbal cues with extreme somatic interventions — prolonged drug‑induce...

Oct 20, 2025

What are the projected interest payments on Canada's national debt in 2025?

Canada’s official fiscal publications reviewed here do present a single-line projected dollar figure for interest payments on the national debt in calendar year 2025; instead they report related measu...

Jan 31, 2026

can the canadian government steal CPP/OAS from pensioners

does not have a legal mechanism described in these sources to arbitrarily “steal” or payments from pensioners; CPP is a contributory, earned benefit tied to past contributions and OAS is a publicly fu...

Jan 18, 2026

What compensation or legal settlements have victims of MKUltra experiments at McGill and other hospitals received?

Victims of the MKUltra “Montreal experiments” have received a patchwork of financial redress over decades: a small U.S. settlement in the 1980s and multiple Canadian out‑of‑court payments in the late ...

Jan 12, 2026

What are the current US tariff rates on Canadian beef and how have they changed since 2020?

The most salient public reporting shows the U.S. administration in 2025 moved to impose broad tariffs of 25% on most Canadian goods — a measure industry sources and Canadian government announcements s...

Oct 24, 2025

Did Mark Carney pledge 189 million for Black businesses only

The Canadian government did commit up to to renew the Black Entrepreneurship Program, but that funding is a , not a personal pledge made by Mark Carney. Multiple contemporary reports credit Ottawa wit...

Jan 30, 2026

Which residential school sites have confirmed identifications of remains and what steps are being taken for repatriation and memorialization?

Multiple investigations since 2021 have located large numbers of potential at former residential school sites, but few sites have produced scientifically confirmed, individually identified human remai...

Jan 27, 2026

What is the most recent official breakdown of Government of Canada securities by holder type (domestic, foreign official, foreign private)?

The most recent official breakdown of securities by holder type is published by the as the “Distribution of holdings” (formerly G4) and in complementary sector- and residence-based tables from ; the s...

Jan 4, 2026

Which types of assets qualify for the proposed $250,000 bare‑trust exemption in Bill C‑15?

Bill C‑15 proposes a new bare‑trust filing exemption for trusts whose property has a fair market value (FMV) of $250,000 or less, but that exemption is constrained to trusts holding a narrow list of a...

Nov 19, 2025

What was Canada's national debt in 2024?

Canada’s federal (accounting) debt — the difference between total liabilities and total assets — was reported at $1,236.2 billion (about $1.24 trillion) at March 31, 2024 according to the Government o...

Oct 31, 2025

Which Canadian programs provide food assistance and who qualifies for each?

Canada’s food-assistance landscape comprises federal programs for northern and national policy initiatives, international assistance via NGOs, and provincial/municipal emergency and income-support mea...

Oct 28, 2025

Who replaced Mark Carney as an economic advisor to the Canadian government after Justin Trudeau stepped down?

The sources provided do not identify any individual who replaced Mark Carney as an economic advisor to the Canadian government after Justin Trudeau stepped down; instead, the documents focus on Mark C...

Feb 6, 2026

Canada disaster relief response to hurricane Audrey in 1957

’s remnants produced deadly winds and torrential rain in eastern in late June 1957, killing about 15 people in and and disrupting transportation services across the region . The sources provided docum...

Feb 4, 2026

What legal cases and settlements arose from MKUltra survivors and how were they resolved?

Survivors of -funded pursued a patchwork of legal actions from the 1970s into the 2020s that produced a handful of settlements, some court-ordered awards, many dismissals, and — most recently — the au...

Feb 4, 2026

What is the current, official list of countries with which Canada has social security agreements and each agreement's entry-into-force date?

of international social security agreements is published and maintained by the ( and ) and as an open dataset; that government list contains more than 50 partner countries and specific entry‑into‑forc...