Canada’s privacy framework is federal, provincial, and evolving.
PIPEDA remains Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, while Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec operate substantially similar provincial regimes. Quebec Law 25 adds stronger governance, assessment, incident, and enforcement requirements—and Bill C-36 proposes an entirely new federal framework. Captain Compliance brings consent, tracker visibility, privacy notices, rights requests, assessments, incident records, and compliance evidence into one operating program—with English and French experiences available from the same deployment.
One country does not mean one privacy rule.
PIPEDA governs commercial personal-information activity where federal law applies, including federally regulated organizations and interprovincial or international data flows.
Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec have substantially similar private-sector laws that may apply to activity within those provinces.
Quebec adds formal governance, privacy impact assessments, incident management, enhanced rights, and substantially larger potential penalties.
Bill C-36 proposes to replace PIPEDA’s private-sector framework with a stronger, more prescriptive federal law. Introduced 15 June 2026; currently at second reading in the House of Commons and not in force.
One Canadian privacy program, with jurisdiction-specific execution.
Captain Compliance runs one technical deployment while allowing consent, notices, request workflows, assessments, and records to be configured for the applicable jurisdiction.
Meaningful consent
Present understandable information about what is collected, why it is collected, who receives it, and the meaningful consequences of the individual’s choice. Supports express or implied consent configurations based on context, sensitivity, reasonable expectations, and counsel’s direction.
Tracker and cookie visibility
Continuously identify cookies, pixels, analytics, advertising tags, chat tools, and other third-party technologies operating on the website.
English and French experiences
Manage consent banners, notices, preference controls, and rights workflows in English and French from one configuration.
Privacy notices
Publish clear disclosures covering purposes, collection, use, sharing, service providers, international processing, retention, rights, and privacy-officer contact information.
Individual rights
Support access and correction requests under PIPEDA and applicable provincial laws, plus Quebec portability and other qualified rights where applicable.
Privacy impact assessments
Document Quebec assessments for information-system and electronic-service projects involving personal information, and for transfers of personal information outside Quebec.
Accountability and governance
Operationalize PIPEDA’s ten fair information principles: accountability, identifying purposes, consent, limiting collection, limiting use, disclosure and retention, accuracy, safeguards, openness, individual access, and challenging compliance. Assign ownership, document policies and approvals, and maintain evidence showing how these principles are implemented.
One deployment. Different Canadian obligations.
Canadian privacy compliance should not mean maintaining disconnected federal, provincial, English, and French systems. Captain Compliance uses one technical deployment and centralized dashboard. Where geolocation is an appropriate implementation signal, organizations can configure Quebec-specific language, consent, and notice experiences. Legal applicability must still be determined from the organization’s activities and data flows—not geolocation alone.
Book a Canada privacy review- Day 1 — Website scan and Canadian tracker inventory
- Week 1 — Consent configuration and English/French experiences
- Week 2 — PIPEDA and provincial privacy notices reviewed
- Week 3 — Access, correction, and Quebec rights workflows configured
- Week 4 — Assessment, incident, and documentation workflows established
- Ongoing — Tracker changes, consent drift, provincial guidance, and Bill C-36 monitored
What changes when the Canada program is on.
- Unknown cookies and third-party trackers
- One generic Canadian privacy notice
- No documented meaningful-consent analysis
- Federal and provincial requirements blended together
- Rights requests handled through email
- No formal incident register
- Quebec assessments handled ad hoc
- Bill C-36 not included in planning
- Continuously maintained tracker inventory
- Jurisdiction-aware notices and workflows
- Consent purposes and choices documented
- PIPEDA, provincial, and Quebec obligations distinguished
- Access and correction requests tracked
- Federal and Quebec incident records retained appropriately
- Quebec assessments documented and approved
- Bill C-36 transition readiness monitored
PIPEDA, provincial law, and Bill C-36, answered plainly.
Does PIPEDA apply to every private-sector organization in Canada?+
Is Quebec Law 25 part of PIPEDA?+
Does having customers in Quebec automatically mean Law 25 applies?+
Does Law 25 require all cookies to be disabled by default?+
What does meaningful consent mean under PIPEDA?+
Is express consent always required?+
When must a PIPEDA breach be reported?+
Has Bill C-36 replaced PIPEDA?+
Are French privacy materials mandatory?+
Does Quebec provide a right to be forgotten?+
Run Canadian privacy operations from one place.
Scan your website, control consent, maintain notices, manage rights requests, document assessments, preserve incident records, and prepare for Canada’s next federal privacy framework.
Book a Canada privacy review See Consent Management