Section 6: Interest-bearing debt as at March 31

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Interest-bearing debt

This section contains information on the interest-bearing debt of the government. Interest-bearing debt includes the unmatured debt and pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities.

Some tables in this section present the continuity of accounts, by showing the opening and closing balances, as well as receipts and other credits, and payments and other charges.

The financial statements of the Canada Pension Plan, the Government Annuities Account and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Dependants) Pension Fund, together with the Independent Auditor’s Reports thereon, are presented at the end of this section.

Table 6.1
Interest-bearing debt
(in dollars)
  April 1, 2023 Receipts and other credits Payments and other charges March 31, 2024
Unmatured debtLinks to footnote 1 in table 1
Payable in Canadian currency
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 1,044,996,101,360 224,734,874,193 182,045,904,396 1,087,685,071,157
Treasury bills, Table 6.3 198,899,474,247 599,158,345,645 535,074,334,481 262,983,485,411
Subtotal 1,243,895,575,607 823,893,219,838 717,120,238,877 1,350,668,556,568
Payable in foreign currencies
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 13,575,419,499 5,885,439,581 372,609,983 19,088,249,097
Canada bills, Table 6.4 2,458,881,864 17,801,320,787 18,102,142,381 2,158,060,270
Subtotal 16,034,301,363 23,686,760,368 18,474,752,364 21,246,309,367
Total—Market debt 1,259,929,876,970 847,579,980,206 735,594,991,241 1,371,914,865,935
Obligation related to capital leases, Table 6.8 2,545,769,112 103,185,839 283,417,913 2,365,537,038
Obligation under public-private partnerships, Table 6.11 2,564,165,234 21,385,000 44,191,487 2,541,358,747
Total—Unmatured debt 1,265,039,811,316 847,704,551,045 735,922,600,641 1,376,821,761,720
Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities
Public sector pensions, Table 6.13 166,425,557,729 28,351,364,227 29,423,243,423 165,353,678,533
Other employee and veteran future benefits, Table 6.26 177,948,900,000 26,531,569,000 8,130,454,000 196,350,015,000
Other liabilities
Canada Pension Plan Accounts, Table 6.27 305,726,187 8,382,990,814 8,529,466,474 159,250,527
Government Annuities Account 68,020,976 3,749,320 12,412,895 59,357,401
Deposit and trust accounts, Table 6.28 2,338,843,143 6,405,172,913 6,727,917,872 2,016,098,184
Other specified purpose accounts, Table 6.31 4,626,357,658 2,064,465,317 1,962,888,465 4,727,934,510
Total 7,338,947,964 16,856,378,364 17,232,685,706 6,962,640,622
Total—Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities 351,713,405,693 71,739,311,591 54,786,383,129 368,666,334,155
Total 1,616,753,217,009 919,443,862,636 790,708,983,770 1,745,488,095,875

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