Digital Policy Branch of Industry Canada

Welcome to the Digital Policy Branch of Industry Canada

We support a safe and strong online marketplace that promotes business innovation, competition, and growth through the development of policies, legislation, and regulations. We also promote the adoption and use of digital technologies in Canadian business to support and facilitate the growth of the Canadian economy.

We do this in the following ways:

• Building trust in the Digital Economy
• Clarifying marketplace rules, both domestically and internationally
• Removing barriers for the use of e-commerce, in conjunction with the private sector
• Benchmarking both firm-level and national performance in the digital economy.