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Canadian money data for your AI agent

The same engine behind metrestick.ca, exposed over the Model Context Protocol. Ask an assistant Canadian money questions — income percentiles, take-home pay, mortgage affordability, retirement, federal benefits — answered from official Statistics Canada and CRA data, with the source vintage attached. Free, open, and stateless (no accounts, nothing stored).

Connect

Streamable-HTTP endpoint — point any MCP client at it:

https://mcp.metrestick.ca/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http metrestick https://mcp.metrestick.ca/mcp

Cursor / generic mcp.json

{ "mcpServers": { "metrestick": { "url": "https://mcp.metrestick.ca/mcp" } } }

19 tools

Benchmarks

  • Income percentile (individual or household)
  • Take-home pay (2026 federal + provincial tax, CPP/QPP, EI)
  • Net-worth percentile by age
  • Raw percentile benchmarks + data vintage

Housing

  • Mortgage affordability (GDS/TDS stress test)
  • Income needed for a home price
  • Rent vs. buy (break-even year)
  • Months to a down-payment target
  • Housing-cost burden (“am I house-poor?”)

Retirement

  • Retirement target + on-track check
  • After-tax retirement income (incl. OAS clawback)
  • OAS clawback
  • GIS estimate
  • Pension income splitting
  • RRSP-meltdown drawdown simulation

Family & couples

  • Second-income value (after tax, benefit clawbacks, childcare)
  • Federal family benefits (CCB, GST/grocery, CWB)

Cost & wages

  • Cost of living by province
  • Occupation wages (national + provincial)

Sources & privacy

Statistics Canada (income & household percentiles, Survey of Financial Security, Survey of Household Spending, wage tables) and CRA 2026 tax + federal benefit parameters (CCB, GST/grocery credit, CWB, OAS/GIS/CPP). Every data tool returns its source vintage so answers can be cited. The server runs stateless: it computes on the inputs in each request and stores nothing.