Canada - Pension System Overview

 

• IOPS Country Profile: Canada 2020 (pdf)

• Canada: Pension system in 2018  and Country specific findings (Pensions at a Glance 2019. OECD and G20 indicators)
  
  
• Canada Voluntary funded pension profile, 2017  (ISSA/OECD/IOPS complementary and private pensions database)

Key Supervisory and Regulatory Autorities

• Canadian Association for Pension Supervisory Authorities (CAPSA): www.capsa-acor.org/CAPSAMembers

Key Official Statistical Reference and Sources on Pensions

• Pension Plans in Canada as of January 1, 2018
  www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190619/dq190619f-eng.htm

• Pension Satellite Account 2018
  www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3610057601

• Statistics Canada (2016), Labour force Survey
  www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160610/dq160610a-eng.htm

• Statistics Canada (2020), Gross Domestic product, at basic prices, by industry, monthly
  www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3610043401

• Statistics Canada (2020), Employer pension plans (trusteed pension plans), fourth quarter 2019
  www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200610/dq200610c-eng.htm

• Population and Demography 2020
  www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/subjects-start/population_and_demography

• Old Age Security Program
  www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/audits/ar-vr_esdc_2016/#toc2_1

• Canada Profile
  https://stats.oecd.org/

Other resources

• Publications
  
  
• Consultation

• Risk-based Pensions Supervision. Case studies 2018 of Canada, Ontario and Alberta: www.iopsweb.org/rbstoolkit