ISMS Copilot for Canadian SaaS companies
Close Canadian and US enterprise deals with PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and SOC 2 in one workspace.
The Canadian SaaS stack, not a re-badged GDPR page
- Draft PIPEDA Schedule 1 accountability, consent, and limiting-use documentation against the actual statute, not a GDPR template with the names swapped
- Run Quebec Loi 25 privacy impact assessments (s. 3.3), confidentiality-incident response (s. 3.5–3.8), and transfer assessments (s. 17)
- Keep PIPEDA for inter-provincial and international activity and Loi 25 for intra-Quebec activity without two contradictory policy sets
- Prepare SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 packs for US and Canadian enterprise security reviews
- Map PIPEDA and Loi 25 to GDPR when you also sell into the EU, so the privacy programme is written once
- Produce OPC-shaped and CAI-shaped records: consent logs, incident files, and the accountability policy both offices expect to see
Built for the Canadian founder selling south and into Quebec
PIPEDA s. 6.1 meaningful consent and s. 7 exceptions, in the words Canadian counsel already use
Division 1.1 breach reporting: real risk of significant harm, OPC notification, individual notice, and the record-keeping duty
Loi 25 governance policy (s. 3.2), PIA trigger, incident clock, and portability / de-indexation rights
SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria mapping for the attestation US buyers still ask Canadian vendors for
ISO 27001 when a Canadian public-sector tender escalates past privacy law
English and French workspace use. The product speaks both; this page is English
PIPEDA is federal. Loi 25 is the Quebec problem. SOC 2 is how you get paid.
Canadian SaaS compliance is three different conversations that a generic GDPR page collapses into one. Federally, PIPEDA (S.C. 2000, c. 5) governs commercial personal information and is administered by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. In Quebec, Loi 25 (CQLR c. P-39.1) is deemed substantially similar, so intra-Quebec activity generally falls under the CAI rather than PIPEDA, with PIAs, incident notification, and transfer assessments that look more like GDPR than like Schedule 1. Separately, US and Canadian enterprise buyers still ask for SOC 2. ISMS Copilot drafts the PIPEDA pack, the Loi 25 pack, and the SOC 2 readiness pack in one workspace. It is documentation support, not Canadian legal advice.
PIPEDA vs Quebec Law 25 →Frequently Asked Questions
Is PIPEDA just GDPR with a maple leaf?
No. PIPEDA is principle-based (Schedule 1) with a meaningful-consent test and a 'real risk of significant harm' breach trigger. It does not copy GDPR's six lawful bases, DPO mandate, or 4% global-turnover fine. Loi 25 is the Quebec statute that does look more like GDPR. The Copilot tracks the difference so you do not paste a GDPR ROPA into an OPC file.
What about Alberta and BC PIPA?
Those are separate provincial statutes, not PIPEDA with a flag swap. Specialist pages: /frameworks/ca-ab-pipa and /frameworks/ca-bc-pipa. OSFI Guideline B-13 is the FRFI technology-risk page at /frameworks/ca-osfi-b13.
We have no Quebec customers. Do we still need Loi 25?
If you have no establishment in Quebec and you do not collect personal information from Quebec residents in the course of commercial activity, Loi 25 is usually not the driver. PIPEDA and, if you sell into the US, SOC 2 still are. The free guide at /learn/pipeda-vs-quebec-law-25 walks the split.
Why is SOC 2 on a Canadian page?
Because Canadian SaaS that sells into US enterprise gets asked for SOC 2 more often than it gets asked for a PIPEDA certificate (there is no PIPEDA certificate). The Copilot treats SOC 2 as commercial work sitting on top of the privacy programme, not as a substitute for it.
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