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StatCan MCP — Statistics Canada (StatCan) time-series via the Web Data

7 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

statcan_indicator

Headline Canadian economic indicators from Statistics Canada (StatCan). PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "Canada inflation / CPI", "Canadian unemployment rate", "Canada GDP". Friendly names: cpi (=inflation

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statcan_series

Fetch any Statistics Canada series by its numeric vector id (e.g. 41690973 = CPI all-items) — escape hatch for the full StatCan catalogue. Find vector ids at www150.statcan.gc.ca (table/cube pages lis

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statcan_list_cubes

List all available StatCan cubes (tables) — lean: productId + title (en/fr) + CANSIM id + dimension count + release date. Use the productId with statcan_cube_metadata / statcan_cube_data. Response is

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statcan_cube_metadata

Full metadata for a StatCan cube: dimensions, member trees, frequency, geography, last release. Use it to construct a coordinate string for statcan_cube_data.

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statcan_cube_data

Latest N observations for a specific series within a StatCan cube. coordinate is a 10-position dot-separated string indexing each dimension (map members → positions via statcan_cube_metadata). Trailin

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statcan_changed_series

List StatCan series that changed (new release) on a given date (default today). Useful to detect updated cubes for scheduled refreshes.

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statcan_csv_url

Return the StatCan-hosted URL for a full cube as a CSV download (doesn't fetch the file — hands back a direct URL).

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/statcan/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/statcan/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"statcan_indicator","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("statcan_indicator", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("statcan mcp — statistics canada (statcan) time-series via the web data");