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Read the blog →Quebec Law 25 modernizes private-sector privacy in Quebec, with penalties up to $25 million CAD or 4 percent of worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.
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Any organization doing business in Quebec or handling the personal information of Quebec residents.
The core of what Quebec Law 25 asks you to put in place.
Ongoing law with phased obligations now in force. A readiness sprint to close gaps across governance, consent, PIAs, and the incident process commonly runs a few weeks to a few months.
We run a Law 25 readiness sprint: privacy governance, consent and transparency, privacy impact assessments, automated-decision disclosure, and CAI incident-reporting workflows, bilingual where required, and aligned with PIPEDA.
See Security and Compliance, or compare estimated Quebec Law 25 cost in CAD. Based in Toronto and led by a published security researcher, we deliver across Canada and the US.
Reading about a framework only gets you so far. Our free compliance workspace takes you through all 39 obligations of Quebec Law 25, one at a time, each explained in plain English with what an auditor will want to see, plus somewhere to attach the evidence and a readiness score that moves as you close gaps. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing locked.
The workspace is free and stays free. Traztech makes money when someone wants help closing the gaps it finds, not from the tool.
The control library, the evidence, the policies and the readiness score all have to live somewhere. That is normally quoted as an annual subscription. Ours is free, and it is the same workspace we run engagements in.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.
Administrative monetary penalties reach up to $10 million CAD or 2 percent of worldwide turnover, whichever is greater. Penal fines, prosecuted in court, reach up to $25 million CAD or 4 percent of worldwide turnover.
Quebec Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI).
Yes. Confidentiality incidents posing a risk of serious injury must be reported to the CAI and affected individuals, with a register of incidents maintained.
When a decision is based exclusively on automated processing, individuals must be informed and, on request, given the reasons and the principal factors that led to the decision.
Usually yes. Law 25 governs Quebec, while PIPEDA covers federally regulated and cross-border activity. Most organizations align both.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether Quebec Law 25 fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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Track record
We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.
The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.
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