Australia's defending champion Will Power has qualified fourth behind Simon Pagenaud for the IndyCar race at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
Pagenaud had a track-record lap of 58.9124 seconds at an average speed of 109.138 mph on the 1.786-mile street course for his first pole of the season and 10th overall.
The Frenchman, the defending series champion who won this this year on the oval in Phoenix, gave Team Penske its eighth pole in 11 races this season.
Graham Rahal was second on Saturday for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, followed by Penske's Helio Castroneves and last year's race winner Power, and Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon.
Hometown favourite for Sunday's race, James Hinchcliffe, qualified sixth for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.
He trailed for most of the first round of qualifying, but rallied to advance into the second after rookie Esteban Gutierrez's crash.
Gutierrez crashed near the end of the first round, hitting the wall on the straightaway to the finish line. His car caught fire, but the former Formula One driver escaped without injury.
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