Foreign Direct Investment in Canada by Ultimate Investor Country

Statistics Canada provides data on foreign direct investment in Canada categorized by the ultimate controlling investor's country, differing from standard immediate investor country presentations. The dataset is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats and was last updated on April 29, 2026. It is published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the geographic sources of foreign control in the Canadian economy based on ultimate investor country.
• Model trends in foreign direct investment inflows to Canada based on the described ultimate investor methodology.
• Compare investment patterns using the ultimate investor perspective versus the standard immediate investor country data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XML.
• Last updated on April 29, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 12:46:48.710106

Geography

Canada