Law 25 compliance for Outaouais businesses
Law 25 is Quebec law, and your business is a Quebec business. We handle your compliance from right here in Gatineau, in French, with someone you can actually sit down with.
Plenty of privacy consultants will sell you a Law 25 program over a video call from somewhere else in the province. That works until you have a real question about how the obligations land for a small Outaouais company — and then you’re explaining your business to someone who has never set foot in it. We do this differently. We’re based in Gatineau’s Aylmer sector, we serve businesses across the Outaouais, and we run the whole engagement in French if that’s your working language.
The Outaouais has a particular wrinkle most provinces don’t: the river. A lot of local SMBs serve clients, hire staff and use suppliers on both sides — Gatineau and Ottawa — which means personal information moves across a provincial boundary as part of normal business. Law 25 cares about exactly that. We know the cross-river National Capital Region reality first-hand, we keep client data in Canada (Azure Canada Central/East, AWS ca-central-1), and we connect the Quebec rules to how you actually operate. For the full mechanics — what each obligation requires and how we deliver it — see our Law 25 compliance service.
A Quebec firm for a Quebec law
Law 25 compliance isn’t a one-time document drop. It’s easier when the person doing it is down the road, speaks your language and understands the region you work in.
- On-site in the region. We meet you in person across Gatineau and the Outaouais to map where personal information actually lives in your business.
- French-native delivery. Policies, your privacy notice, EFVP reports and advisory — written in real Quebec French, not translated after the fact.
- Cross-river fluency. We handle the Ottawa-Gatineau data flows that put personal information across a provincial line every day.
- Data kept in Canada. Canadian-owned, with client data hosted in Canada — which makes the cross-border questions Law 25 raises far easier to answer.
Frequently asked questions
Do you handle Law 25 compliance for businesses in the Outaouais?
Yes — that’s exactly who this is for. We’re based in Gatineau’s Aylmer sector and we work with SMBs across the Outaouais: Gatineau, Hull, Aylmer, and the surrounding communities. Because we’re local, we can come to you, see how you actually handle personal information, and keep the work proportionate to a small business rather than a province-wide enterprise.
Can you act as our outsourced privacy officer (RPRP) here in Gatineau?
Yes. If you’d rather not assign the Responsable de la protection des renseignements personnels role internally, we can hold it for you — handling access requests, assessing incidents, keeping the register and looking after ongoing governance. Being local means we’re reachable when something time-sensitive comes up, not a ticket in a queue somewhere else. The full scope of the RPRP role is laid out on our service page.
We do business on both sides of the river. Does Law 25 still apply?
If your business operates in Quebec and collects or holds personal information, Law 25 applies — even when your clients or staff are in Ottawa. The cross-river setup actually raises the stakes, because moving personal information from Gatineau to Ontario can count as a transfer outside Quebec, which Law 25 expects you to assess first. We help Outaouais businesses sort out which flows trigger that obligation and what to document.
Is there still government funding for Law 25 compliance?
The MaLoi25 subsidy program ended on March 31, 2025, so we won’t promise you an active grant. Support programs in Quebec do change over time, and resources like CyberQuébec at Cégep de l’Outaouais still exist, so it’s worth a look — but the honest answer today is to plan the compliance work on its own merits. We scope it to your size so the cost stays reasonable for an SMB.
Where do we start if we’ve done nothing on Law 25 yet?
Start with our free Law 25 self-check to see roughly where you stand, then book a short gap review. We turn the result into a short, prioritized plan — usually naming the privacy officer, putting basic governance in writing, and setting up the breach register first. If you want some background first, our explainer covers the law for SMBs.
Get Law 25 done with a firm next door
Let’s start with a short gap review in French or English, scoped to your business. Call (819) 329-0018 or email [email protected].
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