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Canada

930 assets on the register, 919 of them located. The hundred most strategic average 22.35 of 25, and Bank of Canada ranks first.

Assets
930of 1,062 records
Top-100 mean
22.35of 25
Scoring a full 25
8
Leading group
18%Financial

Where the top 100 are100 located

A larger circle is a higher score. A fainter one marks the place an asset is in, or a point standing for a network, not the asset's own site.

The shape of the register

How the nation's strategic weight and its assets are spread across the ten capability groups, and how its scores are distributed.

Signature

Each capability group's share of the score carried by the nation's 200 highest-scoring assets.

Transport

Energy

Resource

Financial

Communications & Digital

Space, Aerospace & Defence

Social

Water, Sanitation & Waste

Advanced Manufacturing

Agriculture & Food

16.7%

16.5%

15.9%

13.6%

9.7%

8.3%

7.5%

5.9%

3.8%

2.1%

Assets by capability group

Every discrete asset on the register, and how many of each group reach the national top 100.

Score distribution

The number of assets at each score from 0 to 25.

Source National Infrastructure Index, Strategic Infrastructure schema v1.1. An asset's score is the sum of five dimensions, each judged from 0 to 5; individual scores are approximate.

Not yet or no longer operating: 18 under construction, 21 planned, 8 decommissioned, 7 damaged or idle, 1 inactive.

National top 100

Every asset competes on its score, with no quota by sector. The five dimensions are each judged from 0 to 5.

#AssetFlowReachCentralitySubstitutabilityThroughputScoreConfidence
1Canadian National RailwayTransport ยท Rail Infrastructure ยท Montreal5555525high
2Athabasca oil sandsResource ยท Oil & Gas Extraction ยท Fort McMurray5555525high
3Bank of CanadaFinancial ยท Currency & Reserves ยท Ottawa5555525high
4La Grande ComplexEnergy ยท Hydropower ยท Radisson5555525high
5CDS Clearing and Depository ServicesFinancial ยท Markets, Exchanges & Depositories ยท Toronto5555525medium
6Enbridge Mainline SystemResource ยท Storage, Transport & Export ยท Edmonton5555525medium
7LynxFinancial ยท Payments & Settlement Systems ยท Ottawa5555525medium
8Government of Canada marketable bond market and auction systemFinancial ยท Markets, Exchanges & Depositories ยท Ottawa5555525medium
9Canada Mortgage and Housing CorporationSocial ยท Housing, Community & Social Services ยท Ottawa5455524high
10St. Lawrence SeawayTransport ยท Inland Waterways & Ferries ยท Cornwall5555424high
11Churchill Falls Generating StationEnergy ยท Hydropower ยท Churchill Falls5555424high
12Trans Mountain PipelineResource ยท Storage, Transport & Export ยท Burnaby5555424high
13Nav CanadaTransport ยท Air Navigation & Traffic Management ยท Ottawa5555424high
14Toronto Pearson International AirportTransport ยท Air Infrastructure ยท Mississauga5554524high
15Port of VancouverTransport ยท Seaports & Terminals ยท Vancouver5554524high
16Toronto Stock ExchangeFinancial ยท Markets, Exchanges & Depositories ยท Toronto5554524high
17Canadian Pacific Kansas CityTransport ยท Rail Infrastructure ยท Calgary5554524high
18Bruce Nuclear Generating StationEnergy ยท Nuclear Generation ยท Tiverton5455423high
19Darlington Nuclear Generating StationEnergy ยท Nuclear Generation ยท Clarington5455423high
20Robert-Bourassa generating stationEnergy ยท Hydropower ยท Radisson5455423high
21W. A. C. Bennett DamEnergy ยท Hydropower ยท Hudson's Hope5455423high
22Nelson River hydroelectric generating stationsEnergy ยท Hydropower ยท Gillam5455423high
23CPKC Kicking Horse Pass and Rogers Pass crossings (Spiral, Connaught and Mount Macdonald tunnels)Transport ยท Rail Infrastructure ยท Field5455423high
24Hydro-Quebec 735 kV transmission networkEnergy ยท Transmission & Distribution ยท Montreal5455423medium
25Receiver General for CanadaFinancial ยท Currency & Reserves ยท Ottawa5455423medium
25 of 100 assets