Section 6—Interest-bearing debt

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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.

Table 6.1 presents the transactions and year-end balances of interest-bearing debt. The chart presents interest-bearing debt by category at March 31.

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.

A narrative description is provided for accounts reported in some tables. Such descriptions follow the same presentation order as their respective tables.

Table 6.1
Interest-bearing debt
(in dollars)

  April 1, 2016 Receipts and other credits Payments and other charges March 31, 2017
Unmatured debtLink to footnote 1
Payable in Canadian currency
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 504,067,714,500 135,153,477,750 102,941,636,000 536,279,556,250
Treasury bills, Table 6.3 138,100,000,000 370,500,000,000 371,900,000,000 136,700,000,000
Retail debt, Table 6.4 5,076,053,146 1,827,320,471 2,370,031,679 4,533,341,938
Subtotal 647,243,767,646 507,480,798,221 477,211,667,679 677,512,898,188
Payable in foreign currencies
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 15,305,550,065 234,908,400 4,059,410,133 11,481,048,332
Canada bills, Table 6.5 4,747,403,045 20,769,838,220 21,995,791,076 3,521,450,189
Medium-term notes, Table 6.6 2,429,445,000 696,690,000 519,480,000 2,606,655,000
Subtotal 22,482,398,110 21,701,436,620 26,574,681,209 17,609,153,521
Total—Market Debt 669,726,165,756 529,182,234,841 503,786,348,888 695,122,051,709
Unamortized discounts and premiums on market debt, Table 6.7 5,046,829,133 1,725,689,771 1,450,521,700 5,321,997,204
Total—Market Debt including unamortized discounts and premiums 674,772,994,889 530,907,924,612 505,236,870,588 700,444,048,913
Cross-currency swap revaluation 8,391,392,315 627,515,433 7,763,876,882
Obligation related to capital leases, Table 6.12 3,476,881,655 75,743,485 326,787,559 3,225,837,581
Other unmatured debt 1,569,841,909 639,149,206 10,220,891 2,198,770,224
Total—Unmatured debt 688,211,110,768 531,622,817,303 506,201,394,471 713,632,533,600
Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities
Public sector pensions, Table 6.15 152,227,065,428 16,650,100,857 17,070,675,547 151,806,490,738
Other employee and veteran future benefits, Table 6.28 85,681,311,000 12,708,502,000 4,821,980,000 93,567,833,000
Other liabilities
Due to Canada Pension Plan, Table 6.29 34,728,735 78,074,186,601 78,003,407,749 105,507,587
Government Annuities Account 133,820,091 8,734,937 22,067,942 120,487,086
Deposit and trust accounts, Table 6.30 1,444,671,297 434,673,689 534,249,188 1,345,095,798
Other specified purpose accounts, Table 6.33 3,988,614,017 2,273,088,020 2,143,417,322 4,118,284,715
Total 5,601,834,140 80,790,683,247 80,703,142,201 5,689,375,186
Total—Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities 243,510,210,568 110,149,286,104 102,595,797,748 251,063,698,924
Total 931,721,321,336 641,772,103,407 608,797,192,219 964,696,232,524

Interest-bearing debt by category at March 31, 2017

Interest-bearing debt by category at March 31, 2017. Refer to the text description following the image.

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The graph "Interest-bearing debt by category at March 31, 2017" illustrates the composition of interest-bearing debt for the current year and the relative percentage to the total. The percentage by component is: Marketable Bonds 56.8%; Treasury bills 14.2%; Other unmatured debt 3.0%; Public sector pensions 15.7%; Other employee and veteran future benefits 9.7%; Other liabilities 0.6%.

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