# Quebec (Canada)

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Quebec
- **ISO code**: CA-QC
- **Type**: state
- **Region**: Americas / Northern America

## In brief

Quebec (Canada) has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, 1 of them binding and 1 in force. Law 25 automated-decision and biometric provisions in force since September 2023. Regulators include Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Quebec's Law 25 (Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, 2021) introduced Canada's first statutory rules on automated decision-making: from September 2023 organisations must inform individuals when a decision is based exclusively on automated processing, on request explain the personal information and principal factors used and allow observations, and must conduct privacy impact assessments and give notice of biometric identification systems. The Commission d'accès à l'information enforces it with GDPR-scale penalties.

## Regulatory status

Law 25 automated-decision and biometric provisions in force since September 2023.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Quebec Law 25 (automated decisions and biometrics). Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI) — Enforces Law 25 and the private-sector privacy act — https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (S.Q. 2021, c. 25) — Publications Québec / Assemblée nationale du Québec — https://www.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/lois_et_reglements/LoisAnnuelles/en/2021/2021C25A.PDF

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Quebec Law 25 (S.Q. 2021, c. 25): provisions on decisions based exclusively on automated processing and biometric systems** — Act / statute, In force, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-quebec-law-25-automated-decision-provisions
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-quebec-law-25-automated-decision-provisions.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/ca-quebec
- **Official source**: https://www.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/lois_et_reglements/LoisAnnuelles/en/2021/2021C25A.PDF
- **Source document**: Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (S.Q. 2021, c. 25)
- **Published by**: Publications Québec / Assemblée nationale du Québec
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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