National Capital Region (Canada) region has a bilingual population of 496,025, an English-only population of 507,175, and a French-only population of 102,375. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Ottawa - Gatineau CMA recorded a population of 1,323,783 living in 535,499 of its 571,146 total private dwellings, a change of from its revised 2011 population of 1,254,919. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. Proposals have sometimes been made to separate the National Capital Region from its two respective provinces, and transform it into a separate capital district, like the District of Columbia
Business Development Bank of Canada Business Development Bank of Canada The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC; ) is a federal Crown corporation wholly owned by the Government of Canada. Its mandate is to help create and develop Canadian businesses through financing, growth and transition capital, venture capital and advisory services, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. The bank was founded in 1944 and its corporate headquarters is located in Montreal. BDC has more than 118 business centres across Canada and more than 49,000 clients. BDC's debt obligations, secured by the Government of Canada, are issued to public and private sector institutions. The