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Reference Guides

The guides below are intended as an introductory summary of the legal frameworks governing business in Canada.

Doing Business in Canada - This is an introductory summary of the legal frameworks governing business in Canada .

Business with Canada - A topical update on developments and opportunities for U.S. companies looking at doing business in Canada .

Doing Business in Canada, Your complete guide, 2nd edition
If you are considering doing business in Canada, this guide may assist you. It is intended to provide the reader with general legal information about doing business in Canada, based on our firm's extensive experience helping North American and international clients wishing to do business in Canada.

This guide covers the laws of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec and the federal laws of Canada.

Establishing a Business in Canada
A reference Guide rich in information for companies around the globe interested in doing business in Canada. Topics covered include Canadian legal structure; federal/provincial jurisdictions; employment, taxation, real estate and technology law; and the regulation of foreign investment.

Doing Business in Western Canada
This paper focuses on the federal laws of Canada and the provincial laws of British Columbia and Alberta (the jurisdictions in which the largest Western Canadian economic centres, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, are located). The laws of other relevant jurisdictions (in particular, the territories of Canada) are discussed to the extent that certain specific commercial activity, such as resource extraction, is governed by those laws.

Doing Business in Northern Canada
This paper focuses on the federal laws of Canada and the territorial laws of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut (the jurisdictions in which the largest Northern Canadian economic centre, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit, are located).

The Reference Guides below contain links to third party sites. Invest in Canada provides these links only as a service and convenience to our visitors. We take no responsibility for the content at third party sites and a link to them in no way implies an endorsement or recommendation of the products, services or information found there.

Many of the following hyperlinks are to third party sites that are not subject to the Official Languages Act. The material found there is therefore in the language(s) used by the sites in question.