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, 2017
RestatedLink to footnote 1		 Receipts and other credits Payments and other charges March 31, 2018
Unmatured debtLink to footnote 2
Payable in Canadian currency
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 536,279,556,250 138,175,370,750 99,486,584,000 574,968,343,000
Treasury bills, Table 6.3 136,700,000,000 305,200,000,000 331,200,000,000 110,700,000,000
Retail debt, Table 6.4 4,533,341,938 765,323,160 2,713,019,783 2,585,645,315
Subtotal 677,512,898,188 444,140,693,910 433,399,603,783 688,253,988,315
Payable in foreign currencies
Marketable bonds, Table 6.2 11,481,048,332 4,201,863,938 4,781,406,649 10,901,505,621
Canada bills, Table 6.5 3,521,450,189 11,694,803,227 12,625,563,176 2,590,690,240
Medium-term notes, Table 6.6 2,606,655,000 1,097,500 50,837,500 2,556,915,000
Subtotal 17,609,153,521 15,897,764,665 17,457,807,325 16,049,110,861
Total—Market debt 695,122,051,709 460,038,458,575 450,857,411,108 704,303,099,176
Unamortized discounts and premiums on market debt, Table 6.7 5,321,997,204 2,173,249,132 4,028,412,728 3,466,833,608
Total—Market debt including unamortized discounts and premiums 700,444,048,913 462,211,707,707 454,885,823,836 707,769,932,784
Cross-currency swap revaluation 7,763,876,882 – (negative 71,045,552) 7,834,922,434
Obligation related to capital leases, Table 6.12 3,225,837,581 366,414,486 389,927,719 3,202,324,348
Obligation under public-private partnerships 2,198,770,224 205,545,845 11,107,197 2,393,208,872
Total—Unmatured debt 713,632,533,600 462,783,668,038 455,215,813,200 721,200,388,438
Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities
Public sector pensionsLink to footnote 1, Table 6.15 171,447,490,738 21,357,083,112 21,890,673,715 170,913,900,135
Other employee and veteran future benefits, Table 6.28 93,567,833,000 17,574,932,000 6,349,456,000 104,793,309,000
Other liabilities
Canada Pension Plan account, Table 6.29 105,507,587 77,313,637,269 77,387,281,110 31,863,746
Government Annuities Account 120,487,086 34,599,204 20,440,405 134,645,885
Deposit and trust accounts, Table 6.30 1,345,095,798 785,100,318 803,443,497 1,326,752,619
Other specified purpose accounts, Table 6.33 4,118,284,715 1,776,052,267 1,717,345,069 4,176,991,913
Total 5,689,375,186 79,909,389,058 79,928,510,081 5,670,254,163
Total—Pensions, other future benefits and other liabilities 270,704,698,924 118,841,404,170 108,168,639,796 281,377,463,298
Total 984,337,232,524 581,625,072,208 563,384,452,996 1,002,577,851,736

Table notes

The dash means that the amount is 0 or is rounded to 0.

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