Section 8—Foreign exchange accounts as at March 31

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Foreign exchange accounts

Foreign exchange accounts represent financial claims and obligations of the Government as a result of Canada's foreign exchange operations. Financial claims and obligations denominated in foreign currencies are reported at Canadian dollar equivalents at March 31. Investment income from the foreign exchange accounts and net gains and losses resulting from the translation of the net assets denominated in foreign currencies, to Canadian dollar equivalents as at March 31, are recorded in foreign exchange net revenues on the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Accumulated Deficit.

Table 8.1 presents the continuity of each foreign exchange account, by showing the opening and closing balances, as well as payments and other charges and receipts and other credits. It should be noted, however, that this table excludes unmatured debt payable in foreign currencies, amounting to $16,049 million as at March 31, 2018 ($17,609 million as at March 31, 2017); details relating to these obligations are presented in Table 6.1 of Section 6 of this volume. A narrative description is provided for accounts reported in some tables. Such descriptions follow the same presentation order as their respective tables.

Table 8.1
Foreign exchange accounts

(in dollars)

  April 1, 2017 Payments and other charges Receipts and other credits March 31, 2018
International reserves held in the Exchange Fund Account, Table 8.2 106,667,576,264 28,344,804,453 29,582,535,430 105,429,845,287
International Monetary Fund—Subscriptions 19,892,296,833 754,365,000 20,646,661,833
International Monetary Fund—Loans 1,125,087,045 27,159,859 376,866,304 775,380,600
Subtotal 127,684,960,142 29,126,329,312 29,959,401,734 126,851,887,720
Less:
International Monetary Fund—Notes payable 18,082,200,000 1,021,487,288 1,638,502,288 18,699,215,000
Special drawing rights allocations 10,805,311,441 409,764,000 11,215,075,441
Subtotal 28,887,511,441 1,021,487,288 2,048,266,288 29,914,290,441
Total 98,797,448,701 30,147,816,600 32,007,668,022 96,937,597,279
The dash means that the amount is 0 or is rounded to 0.

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