Open Government Canada

Open Government Canada is a national government open-data portal for Canada running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 47,344 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs CKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other CKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.

Open Government Canada is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Open Data, CKAN, Data Catalog, DCAT, and Government Data.

Open Government Canada’s developer surface includes documentation and 6 more developer resources.

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9.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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2 APIs

Open Data CKAN Data Catalog DCAT Government Data National Government Canada

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 9.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Open Data Portals (CKAN / DCAT)	standard	24.9 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Government Canada CKAN Action API

CKAN Action API for Open Government Canada, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 47,344 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, packa...

Open Government, Canada

Canadian Government Open Data

Open Government Canada API pricing

Not yet checked against Open Government Canada's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-04 from raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-canada-ca/r...; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free / Open Data free	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Default: see portal documentation requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Open Government Canada's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Open Canada Ca Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Open Canada Ca Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Open Canada Ca Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Open Canada Ca Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: open-canada-ca
name: Open Government Canada
description: Open Government Canada is a national government open-data portal for Canada running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN
  catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 47,344 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset
  search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs CKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other
  CKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.
kind: government
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/open-canada-ca.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-canada-ca/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- National Government
- Canada
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: open-canada-ca:catalog
  name: Open Government Canada CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for Open Government Canada, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 47,344
    datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, package_list, organization_list, group_list, tag_list,
    and resource_search; datastore_search is available where the DataStore extension is enabled. Base URL https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data
  baseURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Action API
  - Open Data
  - Catalog
  - REST
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://open.canada.ca/data
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/status_show
- name: Open Government, Canada
  description: Canadian Government Open Data
  humanURL: http://open.canada.ca/en
  baseURL: http://open.canada.ca/en
  tags:
  - Government
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://open.canada.ca/en
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/open-canada-ca-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://open.canada.ca/data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/open-canada-ca-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/open-canada-ca-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/open-canada-ca-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Open Government Canada API — frequently asked questions

Does Open Government Canada have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Open Government Canada, including Open Government Canada CKAN Action API and Open Government, Canada.

How much does the Open Government Canada API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Open Government Canada, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Open Government Canada API ready for AI agents?

Open Government Canada has a Kin Score of 9.1 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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