Issuer: | Canada | |
Title: | 3.500% Euro Bonds due January 13, 2020 | |
Ratings: | AAA/Aaa/AAA (S&P, Moody’s, DBRS) | |
Format: | SEC Registered | |
Aggregate Principal Amount: | €2,000,000,000 | |
Trade Date: | January 6, 2010 | |
Settlement Date: | January 13, 2010 | |
Maturity Date: | January 13, 2020 | |
Callable: | No, unless any change in the laws or regulations of Canada that would require the payment by Canada of Additional Amounts on the Bonds, as more fully described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement | |
Interest Payment Date: | January 13 of each year | |
First Interest Payment Date: | January 13, 2011 | |
Bund Benchmark: | 3.250% due January 2020 | |
Bund Benchmark Price and Yield: | 98.925/3.377% | |
Spread to Bund Benchmark: | + 19.4 bps | |
Yield to Maturity: | 3.571% | |
Coupon: | 3.500% | |
Public Offering Price: | 99.412% plus accrued interest from January 13, 2010 if settlement occurs after that date | |
Day Count: | Actual/Actual (ICMA) | |
Specified Currency: | Euro (“€”) |
Minimum Denomination: | €1,000 and integral multiples of€1,000 | |
Listing: | Luxembourg Euro MTF Market | |
Status: | The bonds will constitute direct unconditional obligations of Canada. The payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds will constitute a charge on and be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. | |
Business Days: | New York, London, Toronto and TARGET | |
Representatives: | BNP Paribas | |
| Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited | ||
| Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft | ||
| HSBC France | ||
Senior Co-Managers: | CALYON | |
| Citigroup Global Markets Limited | ||
| Merrill Lynch International | ||
| Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited | ||
| The Toronto-Dominion Bank | ||
Co-Managers: | Bank of Montreal, London Branch | |
| Casgrain & Company (USA) Limited | ||
| CIBC World Markets Corp. | ||
| Desjardins Securities International Inc. | ||
| Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. | ||
| National Bank Financial Inc. | ||
| Scotia Capital Inc. | ||
Billing and Delivering: | HSBC France | |
Common Code: | 047754372 | |
ISIN: | XS0477543721 | |
Reference Document: | Prospectus Supplement subject to completion, dated January 6, 2010; Prospectus dated December 24, 2008 | |
| http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/230098/000095012310000566/m58078e424b2.htm | ||
Legends: | If and to the extent that this announcement is communicated in, or the offer of the bonds to which it relates is made in, any European Economic Area Member State that has implemented Directive (2003/71/EC) (the “Prospectus Directive”), this announcement and the offer are only addressed to and directed at persons in that Member State who are qualified investors within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive (or who are other persons to whom the offer may lawfully be addressed) and must not be acted upon by other persons in that Member State. |
| This document does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to sell these bonds and is not soliciting any offer to buy these bonds in any jurisdiction where such offer or sale is not permitted. This document is, for the purposes of Article 15 of the Prospectus Directive, not a prospectus but an advertisement. This document, the prospectus supplement and the base prospectus have been prepared on the basis that all offers of bonds in any member state of the EEA which has implemented the Prospective Directive (a “Relevant Member State”) will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Directive, as implemented in that Relevant Member State, from the requirement to produce and publish a prospectus for offers of the bonds. Neither this document nor the prospectus supplement nor the base prospectus have been approved as a prospectus by a competent authority in any Relevant Member State and accordingly none is a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Directive. | ||
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