CACountry-specific compliance

GateTest for Canada

PIPEDA is the federal floor; Bill C-26 (the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act) is layering critical-infrastructure obligations on top. GateTest's 91 modules cover the technical-control findings the OPC and CSE assessors look for under both regimes.

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What devs in Canada build with

Stack and host shapes we see across the Canada dev market — GateTest is tuned for all of them.

Popular stack

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgresStripeNode.js

Popular hosts

VercelAWS Canada (ca-central-1)Cloudflare

The 3 modules most relevant in Canada

Every Canada scan runs all 91 modules — these three are the highest-signal for PIPEDA + Bill C-26.

secretsSecurity

AWS keys, GitHub tokens, Stripe keys, passwords, private keys, DB strings — caught before commit.

logPiiSecurity

Credentials, tokens, request bodies and sensitive identifiers logged in plaintext.

dependenciesSecurity

Supply-chain hygiene across npm, pip, Pipenv, Poetry, go.mod, Cargo, Bundler, Composer, Maven, Gradle.

PIPEDA + Bill C-26 — what GateTest catches

Each bullet ties a real GateTest module to a specific clause in the Canada compliance landscape. Official source →

secrets

PIPEDA Principle 7 — safeguards

secrets module catches AWS / GitHub / Stripe / Anthropic / Slack credential shapes pre-commit — the OPC's PIPEDA reports list exposed credentials as a recurring root cause.

logPii

PIPEDA Principle 7 — physical, organizational, technological

logPii flags PII into application logs — the silent-leak path PIPEDA's breach-notification regime turns into a notifiable event.

dependencies

Bill C-26 (CCSPA) — cyber-security programs

dependencies flags vulnerable / deprecated / wildcard pins and missing lockfiles — the supply-chain control CCSPA explicitly requires designated operators to maintain.

cookieSecurity

PIPEDA Principle 7 — authentication strength

cookieSecurity flags httpOnly: false, secure: false, and weak session secrets ('changeme', 'default', 'mysecret') across Express, Next.js, FastAPI, Starlette, Django.

errorSwallow

Bill C-26 — incident reporting readiness

errorSwallow catches empty catch blocks, swallowed Promise rejections, Node-callback handlers that drop err — the silent-failure path that prevents an incident from being detected.

Honest limitations

GateTest is a code-quality + security scanner — not a SOC 2 / HIPAA / ISO auditor. We catch the technical findings auditors look for, but the audit itself needs a qualified human assessor.

·PIPEDA is the federal baseline — provinces (BC PIPA, Alberta PIPA, Quebec Law 25) overlay extra obligations; GateTest's technical findings apply equally to all four.
·Bill C-26 (CCSPA) only applies to designated operators; check the schedule before relying on it.

Who hires GateTest in Canada

→Toronto SaaS holding PIPEDA-bound consumer data across provinces

→Vancouver health-tech preparing for PHIPA / PIPA provincial overlay

→Ottawa critical-infrastructure operator inside Bill C-26 designation

Pricing

Starting at $29 USD — paid via Stripe in your local currency.

Quick

$29

4 modules

Full

$99

All 91 modules

Scan + Fix

$199

+ AI auto-fix PR

Forensic

$399

+ pair review + exec summary

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