One country, two rulebooks, one published price
Canadian web quotes swing more by city than by scope. The same five pages are C$1,500 from a freelancer and C$7,500 from a Toronto agency. This price is published, fixed, and identical in every province.
- Currency
- Invoiced in euros. About C$2,400 and C$4,800 at current rates.
- GST/HST
- Not charged. Non-resident supplier — if you are registered, you self-account.
- Languages
- Two included. English and French is the common pair here.
- Time zone
- UTC+7. Eleven to twelve hours ahead of Toronto — work lands overnight.
What Canada asks of your site
AODA has a filing date, not just a standard
Ontario private-sector organisations with 50 or more employees have had to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA on public web content since 1 January 2021. Those with 20 or more also file a compliance report with the province. The next one is due 31 December 2026.
What is and is not promised here
Accessibility basics are built in and every delivery is scored on them. That is a signal, not a certification: a Lighthouse score is not WCAG conformance and not an AODA attestation. If you need conformance you need a specialist audit, and this is the right foundation to run one against.
Law 25 reaches well past Quebec
Quebec’s Law 25 binds any enterprise that handles the personal information of people in Quebec. There is no revenue threshold and no volume threshold. A Toronto or Vancouver business with Quebec customers is in scope. Section 9.1 asks for the highest level of confidentiality by default, and tracking has to be consented to before it runs. This build sets no cookies and loads nothing third-party, so there is nothing to switch off.
You own the code
Full IP transfer on final payment, repository included. No proprietary builder and no annual licence, so changing supplier is a clone rather than a rebuild.
What a Canadian site costs, and where this sits
Most Canadian small-business builds land between C$3,000 and C$15,000. Hosting, licences and maintenance add C$75 to C$300 a month. Toronto and Vancouver quotes sit at the top of that range for the same page count.
- Canadian freelancer
- C$1,500 – C$5,000
- Starter brochure site
- C$1,500 – C$4,000, template based
- Toronto agency
- C$3,000 – C$7,500 brochure, C$7,500 – C$20,000 small business
- Running costs, everywhere
- C$75 – C$300 a month
- TIER-01 here
- €1,500 — about C$2,400, fixed, 5 pages
- TIER-02 here
- €3,000 — about C$4,800, 15 pages, two languages
Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax and the English-speaking side of Montreal — the work is remote, so the quote stops following the postal code. If you operate in French, the Quebec page covers the same ground under Quebec rules.
This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Nothing here is a representation of AODA or WCAG conformance. Your accountant or lawyer remains the authority on your own position.