This view covers the domains Countability currently tracks, free to use. Additional domains are added as their evidence foundations are built and checked.
Permanent and temporary flows, the long demographic record, and the pressure population change places on everything downstream.
Permanent admissions per year, 1946 → present
NPR share 6.18% vs the sub-5% end-2027 target: on a straight-line pace
Net non-permanent resident change negative for 6 consecutive quarters
Starts, completions, targets, and the institutional disagreement over how much housing Canada needs.
Housing starts, monthly SAAR
CMHC's 2025-06 housing benchmark uses a different measure from starts
PBO's 2025-08 housing benchmark uses a different measure from starts
Vacancies, participation, youth and entry-level conditions, and whether the market is absorbing population change.
Jobs added per working-age person added, trailing year
Employment grew 1.16 employed people per person aged 15 and over added over the year to Aug 2026
Deficit, debt, and the federal government's own stated fiscal anchors, measured on a consistent basis.
Federal balance, % of GDP, quarterly
Federal deficit widened to -1.48% of GDP over the four quarters ending 2026 Q2, against the declining-deficit-to-GDP anchor
Each province's stated fiscal anchors and the PBO's independent sustainability assessment, held side by side.
Quebec budgetary balance, % of GDP, annual
Quebec's budgetary balance widened to -1.11% of GDP in 2024, against its stated path back to balance
Canada's legislated emissions targets, the projections held against them, and the two official series that measure the same country differently.
National emissions, target accounting basis, Mt CO2e
Canada's emissions were 13.7% below 2005 in 2023, short of the 28.8% a straight line to the legislated 2030 target would require by then
What defence spending supports: people, usable fleets, reported readiness and equipment delivery.
DND reported spending by fiscal year, nominal Canadian dollars
Access to care, unmet needs, life expectancy and substance-related harms across Canada.
Life expectancy at birth, Canada: a period mortality measure
Funded projects, reported timelines, public investment and the age of the infrastructure base.
Public infrastructure investment, constant Canadian dollars
Employer openings and closures, returning businesses and entrants, corporate borrowing, lending conditions and insolvencies.
Active employer businesses, Canada, seasonally adjusted
Each snapshot is a curated sample of its domain — the current measures and charts, not everything Countability holds. More may be added as the record grows.
The current domains are read together as one system; Countability adds new domains as their evidence foundations are ready.
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