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  • 1. Foreign control in the Canadian economy: Visualization tool
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020024
    Description: A visual summary of foreign control in Canada as measured by ownership of assets, revenues and profits. Users can specify the financial variable, choose from selected industries as well as selected countries and macro-regions. Two reference periods are provided for comparison over time.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 2. Corporations Returns Act
    Table: 61-220-X
    Description: Each year, Statistics Canada produces a report on foreign control {Foreign control in the Canadian economy}, as stipulated in the Corporations Returns Act. This report draws a national profile of foreign control in the Canadian corporate economy, examining financial and ownership information on corporations conducting business in Canada. This information is used to evaluate the extent and effect of non-resident control of the Canadian corporate economy. The report includes charts and tables providing time series on selected financial characteristics (assets, operating revenue and operating profits) by specific country of control and classified by major industry groups. The statistics provided in the Corporations Returns Act report are presented at the 21-industry level, using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS Canada 2017). Previous versions of this report may use different industry classification systems. The industry system used will be referenced within the specific version.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 3. Foreign control in the Canadian economy 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20252752972
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 4. Foreign-controlled enterprises in Canada, counts by operating revenue size groups
    Table: 33-10-0005-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    The number of incorporated enterprises operating in Canada and under foreign control, by specific enterprise size groupings (small, medium and large), annual.

    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 5. Foreign-controlled enterprises in Canada, by financial characteristics and selected country of control
    Table: 33-10-0570-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Dollar amounts and percentages of assets, operating revenues and operating profits of incorporated enterprises that are operating in Canada by the Finance and Non-Financial industries and selected country of control, annual.

    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 6. Liquidity and access to liquidity over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1049-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Liquidity and access to liquidity over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 7. Ability for the business or organization to take on more debt, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1051-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Ability of the business or organization to take on more debt, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 8. Inter-corporate Ownership
    Table: 61-517-X
    Description: The Inter-corporate ownership product is the most authoritative and comprehensive source of information available on corporate ownership; a unique directory of "who owns what" in Canada. It provides up-to-date information reflecting recent corporate takeovers and other substantial changes. Ultimate corporate control is determined through a careful study of holdings by corporations, the effects of options, insider holdings, convertible shares and interlocking directorships. The number of corporations that make up the hierarchy of structures totals approximately 50,000.

    The information that is presented is based on non-confidential returns filed by Canadian corporations under the Corporations Returns Act and on research using public sources such as internet sites. The data are presented in an easy-to-read tiered format, illustrating at a glance the hierarchy of subsidiaries within each corporate structure. The entries for each corporation provide both the country of control and the country of residence.

    The product covers every individual corporation that is part of a group of commonly controlled corporations with combined assets exceeding 600 million dollars or combined revenue exceeding 200 million dollars. Individual corporations with debt obligations or equity owing to non-residents exceeding a net book value of 1 million dollars are covered as well.

    Release date: 2025-06-16
  • 9. Update on the Entry into and Exit from Self-employment and Business Ownership in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025004
    Description: This paper provides an update on the dynamics of entry into and exit from (unincorporated) self-employment and (incorporated) business ownership in Canada from 2005 to 2020.
    Release date: 2025-04-01
  • 10. Analysis on majority women-owned businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025005
    Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-03-13
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  • 1. Foreign control in the Canadian economy: Visualization tool
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020024
    Description: A visual summary of foreign control in Canada as measured by ownership of assets, revenues and profits. Users can specify the financial variable, choose from selected industries as well as selected countries and macro-regions. Two reference periods are provided for comparison over time.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 2. Corporations Returns Act
    Table: 61-220-X
    Description: Each year, Statistics Canada produces a report on foreign control {Foreign control in the Canadian economy}, as stipulated in the Corporations Returns Act. This report draws a national profile of foreign control in the Canadian corporate economy, examining financial and ownership information on corporations conducting business in Canada. This information is used to evaluate the extent and effect of non-resident control of the Canadian corporate economy. The report includes charts and tables providing time series on selected financial characteristics (assets, operating revenue and operating profits) by specific country of control and classified by major industry groups. The statistics provided in the Corporations Returns Act report are presented at the 21-industry level, using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS Canada 2017). Previous versions of this report may use different industry classification systems. The industry system used will be referenced within the specific version.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 3. Foreign-controlled enterprises in Canada, counts by operating revenue size groups
    Table: 33-10-0005-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    The number of incorporated enterprises operating in Canada and under foreign control, by specific enterprise size groupings (small, medium and large), annual.

    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 4. Foreign-controlled enterprises in Canada, by financial characteristics and selected country of control
    Table: 33-10-0570-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Dollar amounts and percentages of assets, operating revenues and operating profits of incorporated enterprises that are operating in Canada by the Finance and Non-Financial industries and selected country of control, annual.

    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 5. Liquidity and access to liquidity over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1049-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Liquidity and access to liquidity over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 6. Ability for the business or organization to take on more debt, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1051-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Ability of the business or organization to take on more debt, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 7. Inter-corporate Ownership
    Table: 61-517-X
    Description: The Inter-corporate ownership product is the most authoritative and comprehensive source of information available on corporate ownership; a unique directory of "who owns what" in Canada. It provides up-to-date information reflecting recent corporate takeovers and other substantial changes. Ultimate corporate control is determined through a careful study of holdings by corporations, the effects of options, insider holdings, convertible shares and interlocking directorships. The number of corporations that make up the hierarchy of structures totals approximately 50,000.

    The information that is presented is based on non-confidential returns filed by Canadian corporations under the Corporations Returns Act and on research using public sources such as internet sites. The data are presented in an easy-to-read tiered format, illustrating at a glance the hierarchy of subsidiaries within each corporate structure. The entries for each corporation provide both the country of control and the country of residence.

    The product covers every individual corporation that is part of a group of commonly controlled corporations with combined assets exceeding 600 million dollars or combined revenue exceeding 200 million dollars. Individual corporations with debt obligations or equity owing to non-residents exceeding a net book value of 1 million dollars are covered as well.

    Release date: 2025-06-16
  • 8. Rural Canada Non-Profits, 2022
    Table: 45-20-00042025001
    Description: Rural Canada Non-Profits (RCNP) is a database that provides estimates of Non-Profit Organization (NPO) counts, total revenue and total employment in Canada.

    The tables are by industry in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), by International Classification of Non-Profit Organizations (ICNPO) and by geographical classification as feasible: by provinces/territories, by Census Subdivision (CSD) and the distinction of rural/urban location of organizations.

    NPOs retained for this database were all active for the full or partial duration of the 2022 reference year and reported revenues and/or employment.
    Release date: 2025-02-17
  • 9. Reasons businesses did not purchase goods or services from suppliers in another province or territory over the last 12 months
    Table: 33-10-0945-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Reasons businesses did not purchase goods or services from suppliers in another province or territory over the last 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and business employment size.
    Release date: 2025-02-14
  • 10. Private enterprises by sex and Indigenous identity of ownership, province or region and enterprise size
    Table: 33-10-0631-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table presents the total number and percentage of private enterprises by sex and Indigenous identity of ownership, province or region and enterprise size.

    Release date: 2024-12-19
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  • 1. Foreign control in the Canadian economy 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20252752972
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 2. Update on the Entry into and Exit from Self-employment and Business Ownership in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025004
    Description: This paper provides an update on the dynamics of entry into and exit from (unincorporated) self-employment and (incorporated) business ownership in Canada from 2005 to 2020.
    Release date: 2025-04-01
  • 3. Analysis on majority women-owned businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025005
    Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-03-13
  • 4. Economic and fiscal performance of immigrant-owned firms in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500200002
    Description: Canada has one of the highest shares of immigrants among developed countries. In 2021, immigrants made up nearly one-quarter (23.0%) of the population—the largest proportion among G7 nations. Therefore, understanding the impact of immigrant-owned businesses on the Canadian economy is essential. This article highlights key findings from two recent studies that explore the labour productivity and fiscal contributions of immigrant-owned firms.
    Release date: 2025-02-26
  • 5. Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada, 2005 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202401200005
    Description: As the economic landscape evolves, and with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reshaping business environments, it is essential to support evidence-based policymaking and to develop inclusive strategies that foster growth and resilience within the Indigenous business sector. Funded by Indigenous Services Canada, this study is an update to previous research that provides an overview of Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-12-19
  • 6. Non-financial co-operatives in Canada, 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024036
    Description: This infographic uses administrative tax data to provide a visual representation of non-financial co-operatives in Canada in 2022. Presented data includes counts of co-operatives at the national and provincial levels, as well as financial and employment statistics.
    Release date: 2024-11-04
  • 7. Performance of women-owned businesses that patent
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400900003
    Description: Intangible investments—investments that do not have a physical form—have been rising in importance in terms of use. From 1976 to 2016, the growth of intangible investments was faster than the growth of tangible investments. This study compares the performance of businesses owned by women (majority or equal ownership) that patent with that of majority men-owned businesses and businesses where gender of ownership cannot be assigned.
    Release date: 2024-09-25
  • 8. Survival and growth of women-owned and immigrant-owned businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400500006
    Description: The pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the Canadian economy. This impact was uneven across different workers and businesses. However, there is little information available on how businesses were affected by and survived through the pandemic according to the characteristics of their owners, especially those owned by certain groups such as women and immigrants. This article uses a linkage of the monthly business openings and closures with the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database and the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to study the survival rate and employment growth of businesses by gender, and immigrant status of owners.
    Release date: 2024-05-22
  • 9. A comparison of investments of official language minority owned businesses in rural and urban areas
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024005
    Description: This analysis compares the investment efforts of official language minority (OLM) owned businesses depending on whether they are located in a rural or urban area. The study is based on a model that uses a seemingly unrelated regression equation (SURE) system estimator to simultaneously assess the impact of determinants that explain the investment of businesses in rural and urban areas and to statistically test the differences between the two areas.
    Release date: 2024-05-02
  • 10. Analysis on majority women-owned businesses, first quarter of 2024
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024001
    Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2024-03-08
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  • 1. Corporations Returns Act
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2503
    Description: The purpose of the Corporations Returns Act is to collect financial and ownership information on corporations conducting business in Canada. This information is used to evaluate the extent and effect of non-resident control in the Canadian corporate economy.

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