🍁 mcp-canada

MCP server giving AI agents structured access to Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal government data

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.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

{
  "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

Environment variable: MCP_CANADA_MODULES=bank_of_canada,recalls

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:

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.

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 days

Each module follows a 7-file pattern:

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 [email protected] with details and reproduction steps. We support the latest minor version on PyPI.

Community

• Questions & ideas: GitHub Discussions
• Bugs & feature requests: GitHub Issues
• Contact: [email protected]

License

MIT — Reyem Tech

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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