Privacy & Security Consulting in Canada

Privacy and security obligations in Canada are more layered than they appear. The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act — PIPEDA — sets the baseline for private-sector commercial activity from coast to coast. But that baseline sits beneath provincial laws in Alberta, British Columbia, and Québec, which have each enacted their own substantially similar regimes. Health information carries its own sector-specific rules in most provinces. Federally regulated businesses such as banks, airlines, and telecommunications companies face PIPEDA regardless of where they operate. If your organization moves data across provincial or national borders, the federal framework applies to those flows even if provincial law governs everything else. The result is overlapping obligations that most organizations have never fully mapped.

Privacy Horizon works with Canadian organizations at every stage of that journey — from the first honest assessment of where you stand to the ongoing guidance that keeps you there. Our advisors are practitioners, not policy generalists. They have built privacy and security programs inside organizations like yours, which means they understand the operational pressure behind every compliance question. We do not arrive with a pre-packaged scope and a fixed deliverable list. We start by understanding your business, your data flows, and the gaps that carry real risk. Then we work alongside you to close them in a sequence that makes sense for your team and your budget.

Depending on what your organization needs, that work might look like privacy and security coaching for a team building internal capability, policy and procedure development that translates legal requirements into day-to-day practice, or a Virtual Privacy Officer or Virtual CISO arrangement that provides senior expertise without a full-time hire. Organizations going through acquisitions benefit from our M&A privacy due diligence work, which surfaces data risks before they become post-close liabilities. Custom training ensures teams understand their obligations in plain language. Whatever the entry point, the goal is the same: turn privacy and security from a compliance burden into a repeatable, defensible part of how you operate.