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mcp-canada

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217 tools, ~87 prompts, and ~117 resources across 9 federal APIs + 5 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, and persistent local storage. All bilingual (English/French).

First ArcGIS Hub module — shared infrastructure in shared/arcgis_hub.py is 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 via shared/ogc.py, making WFS the third portal technology alongside CKAN and ArcGIS Hub. See docs://bc/wfs-query-guide for 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 vscode

Supports 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-canada
git clone https://github.com/reyemtech/mcp-canada.git
cd mcp-canada
uv run mcp-canada

Options

Flag

Description

Example

--transport

Transport protocol

--transport sse

--port

Port for SSE/HTTP

--port 8000

--modules

Load only specific modules

--modules bank_of_canada,recalls

--verbose

INFO-level logging

--verbose

--debug

DEBUG-level logging

--debug

Environment variable: MCP_CANADA_MODULES=bank_of_canada,recalls

Examples

See EXAMPLES.md for 23 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 217 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

discover_tools

BM25 natural language search across all tools

call_tool

Execute any discovered tool by name

list_modules

List available API modules with tool counts

plan_query

Plan a multi-step query across Canadian government data APIs

execute_batch

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

Meta / Discovery

5

Always-visible orchestration tools (discover_tools, call_tool, list_modules, plan_query, execute_batch)

Bank of Canada

Federal

8

5

7

Exchange rates, interest rates, commodity prices, inflation — Valet API

CKAN Open Data

Federal

7

5

7

80,000+ federal datasets — open.canada.ca

Drug Database

Federal

8

5

7

Drug products, ingredients, schedules — Health Canada DPD

IRCC Immigration

Federal

10

5

7

PR, study/work permits, Express Entry, asylum — IRCC Open Data

Nutrient File

Federal

8

5

7

Food nutrition data — Canadian Nutrient File

Open Parliament

Federal

10

5

7

Bills, MPs, votes, ballots, Hansard debates — Open Parliament API

Recalls & Safety

Federal

6

4

6

Food, vehicle, and health product recalls — Healthy Canadians

Statistics Canada

Federal

15

6

8

Time series, cube metadata, SDMX filtering — StatCan WDS

Weather

Federal

34

6

8

Conditions, climate, air quality, hydrology, marine, radar — MSC GeoMet

Alberta

Provincial

24

6

7

CKAN + AER energy + WMBappServices wildfire + AHSGIS health + 511 Alberta — open.alberta.ca

British Columbia

Provincial

20

6

7

CKAN + WFS geospatial — BC Data Catalogue

Ontario

Provincial

6

4

6

3,000+ provincial datasets — Ontario Open Data

Quebec

Provincial

18

6

7

Federated CKAN (139 orgs) — Données Québec

Toronto

Municipal

12

6

8

TTC, neighbourhoods, 311, RentSafe — Toronto Open Data

York Region

Municipal

27

5

8

4 ArcGIS Hub portals (York Region, Markham, Newmarket, Aurora)

Local Datastore

Local

6

4

6

SQLite persistence for cross-API SQL JOINs — ~/.mcp-canada/datastore.db

Total

217

~87

~117


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
    ├── quebec/            # 18 tools — Données Québec CKAN
    ├── alberta/           # 24 tools — open.alberta.ca CKAN + AER + WMB + AHSGIS + 511
    ├── 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 days

Each module follows a 7-file pattern:

File

Purpose

__init__.py

Module name and description

constants.py

Base URL, rate limits, cache TTLs, API mappings

schemas.py

Pydantic v2 response models (always flat)

client.py

Async HTTP functions with caching and rate limiting

tools.py

@tool decorated MCP tool functions

prompts.py

@prompt functions — guided workflows + quick lookups

resources.py

@resource functions — catalogs, docs, templates

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=95

Contributing

Each module is self-contained. To add a new API:

  1. Create src/mcp_canada/modules/your_api/ with the 7-file pattern

  2. Add colocated __tests__/ with unit tests

  3. Add integration tests in tests/integration/test_tool_scenarios.py

  4. Add 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.

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