Canadian Crown Corporation Contingent Liabilities from Public Accounts

Public Services and Procurement Canada publishes a summary of contingent liabilities for consolidated and enterprise Crown corporations and other government business entities. The data, sourced from Sections 4 and 9 of Volume I of the Public Accounts of Canada, is expressed in thousands of dollars and is updated annually at the end of each fiscal year. This non-official record provides a historical view, with the official version available from the Receiver General and Library and Archives Canada.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in government financial risk exposure based on contingent liability figures.
• Modeling potential fiscal impacts based on the definition of contingent liabilities as potential future obligations.
• Benchmarking financial positions of different Crown corporations and government business enterprises.
• Studying annual changes in public sector liabilities as reported in the Public Accounts.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the official Public Accounts of Canada, an authoritative government financial report.
• Published annually, providing a consistent time series for longitudinal analysis.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and institutional bias inherent to the Public Accounts of Canada source.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada, via the Public Accounts of Canada.

Collection Method

Extracted from tables in Sections 4 and 9 of Volume I of the Public Accounts.

Time Range

Annual, at the end of each fiscal year.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:35:51.245918; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada