Web Design Services in Canada
WebBizora builds websites for Canadian businesses from Ontario to British Columbia, with the same fully remote process used everywhere else.
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Quebec’s Website Rule Does Not Depend on Your Headcount
Section 52 of the Charter of the French Language covers commercial publications "regardless of the medium used", and that wording is what pulls websites, online stores and business social accounts into scope. The number everyone quotes — 25 employees, down from 50 on 1 June 2025 — governs something else entirely: whether a business must register with the Office québécois de la langue française and run a formal francisation process. The website obligation carries no such threshold. A five-person shop selling into Quebec is in scope in the same way a large retailer is. Fines for a business run from CAD $3,000 to $30,000 per offence, double for a second, triple after that, and each day can count separately.
A Small "FR" Link in the Footer Is Not a French Version
The French version is meant to be equivalent — in content, in presentation and in what it lets a visitor actually do. If the English site has live chat, the French one needs live chat. If English is the default and French is a cramped afterthought reachable from the bottom of the page, guidance points the other way. This is a build decision more than a translation task: URL structure, language routing, hreflang, and templates that hold two languages without one becoming stale. Retrofitting it onto a finished English site is consistently the expensive route, which is why we settle it during development rather than after.
Selling Into Quebec From Outside It — Honestly, This One Is Unsettled
If you have an establishment in Quebec, the rule clearly applies to your commercial web content. The harder case is a business in Vancouver, Calgary or outside Canada altogether that has no Quebec presence but actively sells to Quebec customers online. Secondary guidance suggests the duty can reach that far, and several sources state it flatly — but it is asserted more often than it is settled, and we’d rather say so than pretend otherwise. If a meaningful share of your traffic and orders comes from Quebec and you have no French version, that is a question for a lawyer, not a blog post. What we can say is that a Toronto business taking real Quebec orders should treat it as a live question rather than assume the provincial border settles it.
Enforcement Runs on Complaints
The OQLF mostly acts when someone reports a business, which changes the practical risk profile. It isn’t a regulator crawling the web looking for unilingual sites; it is a competitor, a customer or a passer-by filing a complaint. That makes exposure lumpy and unpredictable rather than statistical, and it means the businesses that get caught are usually the visible ones with an unhappy party nearby.
Plumbers
Emergency-ready sites with tap-to-call and service areas.
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Built for fast quote requests and callout coverage.
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Appointment booking and treatment information, done right.
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Clear specialties, patient enquiries and clinic details.
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Menus, hours and reservations that are easy to find.
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Service menus, pricing and booking in one clean flow.
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Listings and agent profiles that build instant trust.
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Practice areas and consultation requests, presented with authority.
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Class schedules, memberships and trial sign-ups.
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Project galleries and quote requests for builders.
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Service booking and repair information customers trust.
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A credible front door for client enquiries and services.
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Project galleries and quote requests, built for trust.
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Menus, hours and location, easy to find on mobile.
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Rooms, amenities and booking, presented clearly.
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Fast callout requests for heating and cooling issues.
View Website SolutionsThese places are discoverable within Canada and become standalone pages once research confirms enough commercial relevance.
Website Packages for Canada Businesses
Typical agency cost: $1,499+
A focused five-page site for a small business that needs to be found, understood and contacted.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom responsive design — no template
- Contact form with spam protection
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Accessible markup (WCAG-aware build)
- Basic schema and meta setup
- 2 revision rounds
- 30 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $2,399+
More pages, more integrations, and the structure a growing business needs to keep adding to.
- Up to 12 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Google Business Profile and maps integration
- Newsletter or CRM connection
- Multi-location or service-area pages
- 3 revision rounds
- 60 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $3,799+
Booking, payments and a design built around how your business actually converts.
- Up to 25 pages
- Everything in Business
- Booking or appointment system
- Online payments (Stripe or equivalent)
- Customer portal or member area
- Bilingual build where the market needs it
- Advanced schema and AEO structure
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $5,499+
A complete online store — catalogue, checkout, tax and shipping, built to sell from launch day.
- Up to 100 products at launch
- Everything in Premium
- Full catalogue with variants and filtering
- Checkout, tax and shipping configuration
- Payment gateway integration
- Order, stock and customer management
- Abandoned-cart recovery setup
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Questions, Answered Directly
If you have no Quebec establishment and don’t market or sell into Quebec, the Charter is not aimed at you. If you actively sell to Quebec customers, it becomes a real question — see the section above, where we’ve set out honestly what is settled and what isn’t.
No, and this is the most commonly muddled point. The 25-employee figure, lowered from 50 on 1 June 2025, governs mandatory OQLF registration and the francisation process. The requirement to publish commercial web content in French applies regardless of size.
For a business, CAD $3,000 to $30,000 per offence on a first breach, doubled for a second and tripled after that, with each day potentially counting as a separate offence. Enforcement is through the OQLF, and cases are prosecuted before the Court of Quebec.
Machine translation gets you a French-shaped page rather than a French version. The standard is that French text be as clear, complete and correct as the other language — a bar that automated output frequently misses on service descriptions, legal terms and anything with local idiom in it. Treat this note as general information, not legal advice.
One Process, Wherever You Are
- Submit your project details through the quote form
- Review a proposed structure and package for your business
- We design and build while you review progress
- Launch, with your support window starting from day one