Section 117 — Canada Pension Plan: Annual report to be made by Ministers

The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Employment and Social Development shall, as soon as possible after the end of each fiscal year, together prepare a report on the administration of this Act during that year, including the annual financial statements for that year prepared under section 112 and the report of the Auditor General of Canada on those statements; the number of contributors during that year and the number of persons to whom benefits were payable during that year; and any other information that the Ministers, and the appropriate provincial Ministers of the participating provinces, as defined in section 2 of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act , consider appropriate. The Ministers shall cause the report to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the report is prepared. As soon as possible after the report is prepared, the Ministers shall send the report to the appropriate provincial Minister of every province. In this section, appropriate provincial Minister , in respect of a province, means the province’s minister of the Crown who has primary responsibility for that province’s finances.