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In forceProperty and casualty insurers: financial statementsLast checked 11 November 2026

P&C insurer supervisory quarterly return (PC2)

A regulatory return listed by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada.

Supporting supervisory exhibits for property and casualty insurers: investments, other assets and liabilities, insurance results and onerous contracts, provincial and territorial summaries, reinsurance ceded, commissions and expenses, and non-consolidated statements. Source

Official title: P&C Supervisory Quarterly Return (PC2)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements tables list it for: Canadian property and casualty insurers; foreign property and casualty insurers. Source
How often
Quarterly, plus an annual filing at year end. Source
Deadline
Quarterly filing: within 45 days. Annual filing: within 60 days. Subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. Source
Format
XML, Excel. OSFI's federal filing requirements table (Section V) marks this filing as: XML file: Yes; special Excel file (OSFI662): Yes. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the OSFI: Regulatory Reporting System (RRS); Regulatory Data Hub (RDH). See how firms file with the OSFI.
Status
In forceOSFI has published 2027 versions of the insurer returns for IFRS 18. The 2027 pages say insurers with a December 31, 2026 year end use the new returns from January 1, 2027, and those with an October 31, 2027 year end from November 1, 2027. Filed in the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS). OSFI's Data Collection Modernization initiative will replace RRS with a new platform, the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH); OSFI says the launch is now targeted for spring 2027 and asks filers to keep using RRS until then. Financial filing for insurers moves to RDH in Release 3; OSFI says more details on financial returns will come in 2027. Source
Group
Property and casualty insurers: financial statements

Templates (37)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the OSFI's code in brackets.

  • Other Information (10.41)
  • Summary of Investments (40.08)
  • Interest Revenue on Financial Assets (40.72)
  • Investment Return (excluding Interest Revenue) (40.74)
  • Other Loans (40.80)
  • Summary of Equity Accounted Investees (40.84)
  • Analysis of Current Year Provisions (40.88)
  • Provisions, Accruals & Other Liabilities (40.92)
  • Intra-Group Transactions (50.32)
  • Receivable from/Payable to (50.40)
  • Insurance Service Result (60.25)
  • Changes in Onerous Contracts for the Current Period (60.80)
  • Insurance Revenue (67.40)
  • Insurance Service Expenses (67.50)
  • Net Expenses from Reinsurance Contracts Held (67.60)
  • Insurance Service Result (67.70)
Show all 37 templates
  • Reinsurance Contracts Held Summary - Registered Reinsurance (70.50)
  • Reinsurance Contracts Held Summary - Unregistered Reinsurance (70.60)
  • Commissions (80.15)
  • Insurance Service and Other Operating Expenses (80.25)
  • Other Income (80.35)
  • Assets (92.10)
  • Liabilities and Equity (92.11)
  • Liability Roll Forward (Analysis by measurement component (Insurance contracts not measured under the PAA - excluding Segregated Funds)) (92.12)
  • Liability Roll Forward (Analysis by remaining coverage and incurred claims (all insurance contracts - excluding Segregated Funds)) (92.14)
  • Liability Roll Forward (Reinsurance contracts held analysis by measurement component (Contracts not measured under the PAA - excluding Segregated Funds)) (92.16)
  • Liability Roll Forward (Reinsurance contracts held analysis by remaining coverage and incurred claims (all contracts - excluding Segregated Funds)) (92.18)
  • Statement of Profit or Loss (92.22)
  • Reserves (92.40)
  • Comprehensive Income(Loss) & Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income(Loss) (92.42)
  • Statement of Changes in Equity (92.54)
  • Insurance Service Result (93.14)
  • Provincial & Territorial Exhibit of Premiums Written (93.30)
  • Provincial & Territorial Exhibit of Insurance Revenue (94.10)
  • Provincial & Territorial Exhibit of Insurance Service Expenses (94.20)
  • Provincial & Territorial Exhibit of Net Expenses from Reinsurance Contracts Held (94.30)
  • Provincial & Territorial Exhibit of Insurance Service Result (94.40)

Schedules (worksheets) in pc2-2024-en.xlsx, named from the workbook's table of contents or schedule titles. Source

Validation rules

3,468 rules, as counted from the OSFI's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: Excel workbook, one row per rule (Rule ID, Rule Type, Description and a Formula or Expression column in OSFI's RRS rule syntax, for example EqualWithinThreshold([P400831035],[P408015904],1,0)).

The validation rules published for the next (2027) version, pc2-2027-q1-t1-09-10-2026-validation-en.xlsx, list 3475 rules.

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 3468 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of pc2-2024-q4-t4-validation-en.xlsx (3468 error).

Counts are in the OSFI's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published firm by firm. OSFI publishes data from this return institution by institution, with industry totals, as CSV files on the Government of Canada open data portal: "PC2 - P&C Supervisory Quarterly Return (Active)" in the Property and casualty companies dataset. Source

Where it is published (CSV)

  • OSFI financial data: Property and casualty companies (open.canada.ca)

    Firm by firm · CSV (long format: one row per institution, period and data point address, with English and French labels)

    Institution-by-institution data, with industry totals, from OSFI's returns for property and casualty companies, one CSV file per return: MI -Mortgage Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (Active); MI3 - Mortgage Insurers Core Financial Statement Return (Active); MI4 - Mortgage Insurers Supervisory Quarterly Return (Active); MI5 - Mortgage Insurers Supervisory Annual Return (Active); PC1 - P&C Core Financial Statement Return (Active); PC2 - P&C Supervisory Quarterly Return (Active); PC3 - P&C Supervisory Annual Return (Active); PC4 - P&C Minimum Capital Test and Branch Adequacy of Assets Test (Active). The dataset is updated quarterly (last updated on the portal 2026-10-21) and also holds 6 CSV files for returns OSFI no longer collects, a data dictionary and a user manual. The dataset page gives 2026 publication dates: monthly returns on or about the 15th of each month; quarterly returns about a week after the due date (Q1 due May 15, published May 23; Q2 due Aug 14, published Aug 22; Q3 due Nov 14, published Nov 22; Q4 due March 1, published March 19). Source

Official documents (27)

The OSFI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.