Health Canada Summary Reports — MCP server

Server MCP that exposes Santé Canada's public "Summary Reports" API (Summary Basis of Decision / SBD, Regulatory Decisions / RDS, Summary Safety Reviews / SSR) as tools usable by an MCP-compatible agent — notably a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent.

Companion tool to health-canada-summary-reports-explorer (the web version), same source API, no data is stored or sent anywhere except health-products.canada.ca.

Exposed tools

• searchHealthCanadaReports — search by product name, manufacturer, ingredient, therapeutic area, or control number. Returns a short list of matching IDs.

• getHealthCanadaReport — retrieves the full text of a report by its exact ID (formatted as Markdown).

Both tools accept reportType (sbd | rds | ssr) and lang (fr | en, default fr).

Related MCP server: Enterprise Knowledge MCP Server

Local setup

Prerequisites: Node.js 18+.

npm install
npm run build
npm start

The server listens on http://localhost:3000/mcp.

Connect the server to Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio must reach the server via a public HTTPS URL. For development/testing, the easiest way is to use Dev Tunnels (official Microsoft tool):

devtunnel host -p 3000 --allow-anonymous

Copy the generated URL (format https://xxxxx-3000.devtunnels.ms — the port is a suffix in the hostname, not :3000) and append /mcp to the end.

Then, in Copilot Studio:

1. Open your agent → Tools tab → Add a tool.

2. Select Model Context Protocol.

3. Fill in:

   • Server name: Rapports sommaires Santé Canada

   • Description: Recherche et consultation des rapports de décision réglementaire et d'innocuité de Santé Canada (médicaments et instruments médicaux).

   • Server URL: https://xxxxx-3000.devtunnels.ms/mcp

   • Authentication: Aucune (the source API is public, no key)

4. Click Create, then test in the Preview tab with a question like "Why did Santé Canada approve Abilify?" or "Has there been a safety review of tofacitinib?".

Production deployment

A development tunnel is not intended to remain open continuously. For permanent use, host this Node.js server on a standard platform (Azure Container Apps, Azure App Service, Render, Fly.io, etc.) and use its stable HTTPS URL instead of the devtunnel URL in Copilot Studio. The server requires no database or environment variables (except optionally PORT).

Structure

src/
├── index.ts   # serveur MCP (transport Streamable HTTP sur /mcp)
├── api.ts     # client de l'API Santé Canada + cache en mémoire des listes
└── format.ts  # conversion des champs HTML de l'API en Markdown lisible