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Fiscal Reference Tables
October 2003

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Preface

The Fiscal Reference Tables provide annual data on the financial position of the federal and provincial governments. The data are presented on both a Public Accounts basis – corresponding to the accounting conventions used to report financial information to the respective legislatures –as well as on a National Accounts basis – as prepared by Statistics Canada and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

For information or clarification, please contact Peter DeVries at (613) 996-7397, Fiscal Policy Division, Department of Finance, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G5.

For inquiries about computerization and database management, please call Richard Hotte at (613) 992-6720.


Table of Contents

Federal Government – Public Accounts

1 Fiscal transactions (millions of dollars)
2 Fiscal transactions (per cent of GDP)

3 Budgetary revenues (millions of dollars)

4 Budgetary revenues (per cent of GDP)
5 Budgetary revenues (per cent of total)
6 Excise taxes and duties
7 Budgetary expenses (millions of dollars)
8 Budgetary expenses (per cent of GDP)
9 Budgetary expenses (per cent of total)
10 Major transfers to persons
11 Major transfers to other levels of government
12 Details of program expenses
13 Public debt charges
14 Interest-bearing debt
15 Gross and net debt
16 Unmatured debt held by outside parties

Provincial and Territorial Governments – Public Accounts

17 Newfoundland and Labrador
18 Prince Edward Island
19 Nova Scotia
20 New Brunswick
21 Quebec
22 Ontario
23 Manitoba
24 Saskatchewan
25 Alberta
26 British Columbia
27 Yukon Territory
28 Northwest Territories
29 Nunavut
30 All provinces and territories (millions of dollars)
31 All provinces and territories (per cent of GDP)

National Accounts

32 Total government revenues
33 Total government expenditures
34 Total government saving and capital and financial account
35 Federal government revenues
36 Federal government expenditures
37 Federal government saving and capital and financial account
38 Provincial and territorial government revenues
39 Provincial and territorial government expenditures
40 Provincial and territorial government saving and capital and financial account
41 Local government revenues
42 Local government expenditures
43 Local government saving and capital and financial account
44 Total Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan
45 Actual, cyclically adjusted and primary-cyclically adjusted budget balances (millions of dollars)
46 Actual, cyclically adjusted and primary-cyclically adjusted budget balances (per cent of GDP)
47 Change in actual, cyclically adjusted and primary-cyclically adjusted budget balances (per cent of GDP)
48 Indicator of fiscal policy stance
49 Federal government liabilities and assets
50 Provincial and local governments’ liabilities and assets
51 Canada Pension Plan liabilities and assets
52 Quebec Pension Plan liabilities and assets
53 Total government liabilities and assets

International Fiscal Comparisons

54 G-7 general government total tax and non-tax receipts
55 G-7 general government total outlays
56 G-7 general government financial balances
57 G-7 general government net financial liabilities
58 G-7 general government gross financial liabilities


Last Updated: 2004-11-01

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