Public Services and Procurement Canada publishes a list of outstanding financial guarantees provided by the Government of Canada in its annual Public Accounts. The dataset includes authorized limits representing the aggregate total of various types of authorities for government bodies as stipulated in legislation or agreements. Data is updated at the end of each fiscal year and is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats.
Use Cases
- Analyzing trends in government financial exposure based on outstanding guarantees.
- Modeling fiscal risk by comparing authorized limits against actual guarantees.
- Tracking changes in government contingent liabilities over fiscal years.
Strengths
- Data is published annually as part of the official Public Accounts of Canada.
- Authorized limits are defined by legislation and legal agreements.
- 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.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Public Services and Procurement Canada
- Collection Method
- Compiled from the Public Accounts of Canada at the end of each fiscal year.
- Time Range
- Annual, at fiscal year-end.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-09 16:35:43.832367; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Canada