mcp-canada
The mcp-canada server gives AI agents structured access to Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal government data through 266 tools across 19+ API modules.
Core Orchestration
discover_tools— Natural language (BM25) search to find relevant tools without browsing all 266call_tool— Execute any tool by name with given argumentslist_modules— Browse all API modules with descriptions and tool countsplan_query— Generate structured multi-step execution plans for complex natural language questionsexecute_batch— Run multiple tool calls in parallel with per-step error isolation
Federal Data
Bank of Canada — Exchange rates, interest rates, commodity prices, inflation
CKAN Open Data — 80,000+ federal datasets
Health Canada Drug Database — Drug products, ingredients, schedules
IRCC Immigration — PR, study/work permits, Express Entry, asylum statistics
Canadian Nutrient File — Food nutrition data
Open Parliament — Bills, MPs, votes, Hansard debates
Recalls & Safety — Food, vehicle, and health product recalls
Statistics Canada — Time series, cube metadata, SDMX filtering
Environment Canada Weather — Real-time conditions, climate, air quality, hydrology, marine, radar
Provincial Data
Alberta (CKAN + AER energy + wildfire + health + transport), British Columbia (CKAN + WFS geospatial), Manitoba (ArcGIS Hub + 511), Saskatchewan (ArcGIS Hub + water + fire bans), Nova Scotia (Socrata SODA), Ontario (3,000+ datasets), Quebec (federated CKAN across 139 organizations)
Municipal Data
Toronto (TTC transit, neighbourhoods, 311, RentSafe) and York Region (4 ArcGIS Hub portals: York Region, Markham, Newmarket, Aurora)
Local Storage
SQLite Datastore — Persist and JOIN data from multiple APIs in a single SQL query for cross-API intelligence
Key Features
Full bilingual support (
lang: "en" | "fr") on all toolsConsistent response envelope with source attribution and cache status
Built-in caching and per-source rate limiting
Structured error responses with suggestions
Provides access to ArcGIS Hub portals for municipal data, enabling queries of geospatial datasets from Canadian municipalities like York Region, Markham, Newmarket, and Aurora.
Provides a local SQLite datastore for persistent storage and cross-API SQL JOINs, enabling agents to store and query data across multiple Canadian government APIs.
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@mcp-canadashow me recent product recalls in Canada"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
266 tools, ~105 prompts, and ~138 resources across 9 federal APIs + 8 provincial APIs + 2 municipal APIs + 1 local SQLite datastore — exchange rates, parliamentary data, product recalls, drug information, 80K+ open datasets, food nutrition data, real-time weather, immigration statistics, Ontario provincial data, Toronto municipal data, York Region ArcGIS Hub data, British Columbia CKAN + WFS geospatial data, Quebec Données Québec CKAN + ArcGIS IQA data, Alberta open data + AER energy + WMBappServices wildfire + AHSGIS health + 511 Alberta transport, Manitoba geoportal (ArcGIS Hub) + 511 Manitoba transport, Saskatchewan geoportal (ArcGIS Hub) + WSA water infrastructure + SPSA fire bans, Nova Scotia Socrata SODA portal (data.novascotia.ca), and persistent local storage. All bilingual (English/French).
First ArcGIS Hub module — shared infrastructure in
shared/arcgis_hub.pyis reusable for future Canadian municipal modules (BC, Calgary, Edmonton, and other cities publishing via ArcGIS Hub). First OGC WFS module — BC introduces WFS 2.0 (OGC) support viashared/ogc.py, making WFS the third portal technology alongside CKAN and ArcGIS Hub. Seedocs://bc/wfs-query-guidefor the CKAN→WFS two-step workflow.
Quick Start
# Auto-configure your platform (interactive)
uvx mcp-canada install
# Or name platforms directly
uvx mcp-canada install claude-desktop cursor vscodeSupports 14 platforms: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Amazon Q, OpenCode, Cline, Roo Code, Goose CLI, Junie CLI.
Manual Setup
Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-canada": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-canada"]
}
}
}claude mcp add mcp-canada -- uvx mcp-canadagit clone https://github.com/reyemtech/mcp-canada.git
cd mcp-canada
uv run mcp-canadaOptions
Flag | Description | Example |
| Transport protocol |
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| Port for SSE/HTTP |
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| Load only specific modules |
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| INFO-level logging |
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| DEBUG-level logging |
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Environment variable: MCP_CANADA_MODULES=bank_of_canada,recalls
Related MCP server: Countries MCP Server
Examples
See EXAMPLES.md for 25 cross-API intelligence scenarios — from tracing prairie drought to the Canadian dollar, to building pharmaceutical safety audits, to assembling MP accountability briefs, to joining data from multiple APIs in a single SQL query. Each example includes the exact prompt and tool chain you can run today.
How Discovery Works
With 250 tools, listing all of them would consume half an agent's context window. Instead, BM25 search lets agents find exactly what they need:
Agent: "What tools do you have for exchange rates?"
→ discover_tools("exchange rate CAD")
→ Returns: boc_get_exchange_rates, boc_get_observations
→ call_tool("boc_get_exchange_rates", {"currency": "USD", "recent": 3})
→ Returns: {"_meta": {...}, "data": [{"date": "2026-04-02", "value": 1.3918, ...}]}Agents see 5 always-visible tools:
Tool | Purpose |
| BM25 natural language search across all tools |
| Execute any discovered tool by name |
| List available API modules with tool counts |
| Plan a multi-step query across Canadian government data APIs |
| Run multiple tool calls in parallel with per-step error isolation |
Modules
All tools accept lang: "en" | "fr" for bilingual support. Responses include a _meta envelope with source attribution and cache status. Click a module for its full tool, prompt, and resource catalog.
Module | Level | Tools | Prompts | Resources | Description |
— | 5 | — | — | Always-visible orchestration tools ( | |
Federal | 8 | 5 | 7 | Exchange rates, interest rates, commodity prices, inflation — Valet API | |
Federal | 7 | 5 | 7 | 80,000+ federal datasets — open.canada.ca | |
Federal | 8 | 5 | 7 | Drug products, ingredients, schedules — Health Canada DPD | |
Federal | 10 | 5 | 7 | PR, study/work permits, Express Entry, asylum — IRCC Open Data | |
Federal | 8 | 5 | 7 | Food nutrition data — Canadian Nutrient File | |
Federal | 10 | 5 | 7 | Bills, MPs, votes, ballots, Hansard debates — Open Parliament API | |
Federal | 6 | 4 | 6 | Food, vehicle, and health product recalls — Healthy Canadians | |
Federal | 15 | 6 | 8 | Time series, cube metadata, SDMX filtering — StatCan WDS | |
Federal | 34 | 6 | 8 | Conditions, climate, air quality, hydrology, marine, radar — MSC GeoMet | |
Provincial | 24 | 6 | 7 | CKAN + AER energy + WMBappServices wildfire + AHSGIS health + 511 Alberta — open.alberta.ca | |
Provincial | 20 | 6 | 7 | CKAN + WFS geospatial — BC Data Catalogue | |
Provincial | 20 | 6 | 7 | ArcGIS Hub + 511 Manitoba — geoportal.gov.mb.ca | |
Provincial | 13 | 6 | 7 | ArcGIS Hub + WSA water + SPSA fire bans — geohub.saskatchewan.ca | |
Provincial | 16 | 6 | 7 | Socrata SODA portal (aquaculture, environment, health) — data.novascotia.ca | |
Provincial | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3,000+ provincial datasets — Ontario Open Data | |
Provincial | 18 | 6 | 7 | Federated CKAN (139 orgs) — Données Québec | |
Municipal | 12 | 6 | 8 | TTC, neighbourhoods, 311, RentSafe — Toronto Open Data | |
Municipal | 27 | 5 | 8 | 4 ArcGIS Hub portals (York Region, Markham, Newmarket, Aurora) | |
Local | 6 | 4 | 6 | SQLite persistence for cross-API SQL JOINs — | |
Total | 266 | ~105 | ~138 |
Response Format
All tools return a consistent envelope:
{
"_meta": {
"source": {"api": "bank-of-canada-valet", "url": "https://..."},
"cached": true,
"lang": "en",
"timestamp": "2026-04-04T12:00:00Z"
},
"data": [ ... ]
}Errors return:
{
"error": {
"code": "INVALID_SERIES",
"message": "Series 'FXXYZCAD' not found.",
"suggestions": ["FXUSDCAD", "FXEURCAD"]
}
}Architecture
src/mcp_canada/
├── server.py # FastMCP entry point, transport, module loading
├── shared/ # Cross-module utilities
│ ├── cache.py # TTL-based in-memory cache (aiocache)
│ ├── envelope.py # Response/error envelope (make_response/make_error)
│ ├── http.py # Shared HTTP client with retry (tenacity)
│ ├── rate_limiter.py # Per-source token bucket
│ └── i18n.py # Bilingual error messages
├── meta/
│ └── list_modules.py # list_modules meta-tool
└── modules/
├── bank_of_canada/ # 8 tools — Valet API
├── open_parliament/ # 10 tools — Parliament API
├── recalls/ # 6 tools — Healthy Canadians API
├── drug_database/ # 8 tools — Health Canada DPD
├── ckan/ # 7 tools — Open Data Portal
├── nutrient_file/ # 8 tools — Canadian Nutrient File
├── datastore/ # 6 tools — local SQLite persistence
├── ircc/ # 10 tools — IRCC Immigration Open Data
├── ontario/ # 6 tools — Ontario Open Data Catalogue
├── toronto/ # 12 tools — City of Toronto Open Data Portal
├── york_region/ # 27 tools — York Region ArcGIS Hub (4 portals)
├── british_columbia/ # 20 tools — BC Data Catalogue + WFS
├── manitoba/ # 20 tools — geoportal.gov.mb.ca ArcGIS Hub + 511 Manitoba
├── saskatchewan/ # 13 tools — geohub.saskatchewan.ca ArcGIS Hub + WSA water + SPSA fire bans
├── quebec/ # 18 tools — Données Québec CKAN
├── alberta/ # 24 tools — open.alberta.ca CKAN + AER + WMB + AHSGIS + 511
├── nova_scotia/ # 16 tools — data.novascotia.ca Socrata SODA
├── statcan/ # 15 tools — Statistics Canada WDS + SDMX
└── weather/ # 34 tools — MSC GeoMet OGC API
├── current/ # 5 tools — realtime conditions, forecast, alerts
├── climate/ # 7 tools — daily/monthly/normals/trends
├── aqhi/ # 3 tools — air quality health index
├── hydro/ # 5 tools — water levels, flow, flood risk
├── marine/ # 3 tools — marine forecasts, hurricane tracks
├── severe/ # 3 tools — radar, lightning, UV index
├── snow/ # 2 tools — snow depth, snow water equivalent
├── collections/ # 2 tools — collection browser and direct query
└── summary/ # 4 tools — composite summary, extremes, growing season, degree daysEach module follows a 7-file pattern:
File | Purpose |
| Module name and description |
| Base URL, rate limits, cache TTLs, API mappings |
| Pydantic v2 response models (always flat) |
| Async HTTP functions with caching and rate limiting |
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New modules are auto-discovered — drop a folder in modules/ and it registers via FileSystemProvider.
Development
# Install dependencies
uv sync
# Run tests (~2000 unit tests, ~15s)
uv run pytest
# Run integration tests against live APIs (~2min)
uv run pytest tests/integration/ -v -m integration --timeout=120
# Type check and lint
uv run pyright
uv run ruff check src/ tests/
# Coverage (must be ≥95%)
uv run pytest --cov=src/mcp_canada --cov-fail-under=95Contributing
Each module is self-contained. To add a new API:
Create
src/mcp_canada/modules/your_api/with the 7-file patternAdd colocated
__tests__/with unit testsAdd integration tests in
tests/integration/test_tool_scenarios.pyAdd a module doc in
docs/modules/and update the Modules table in this README
See CLAUDE.md for coding conventions.
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md for version-by-version changes, or browse GitHub Releases.
Security
Found a vulnerability? Please do not open a public issue. Email contact@reyem.tech with details and reproduction steps. We support the latest minor version on PyPI.
Community
Questions & ideas: GitHub Discussions
Bugs & feature requests: GitHub Issues
Contact: contact@reyem.tech
License
Data Attributions
Data from the following government sources is accessed by this library subject to their respective licences:
Nova Scotia Open Data — Licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia v1.1. Contains public sector information provided by the Province of Nova Scotia.
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