{"id":559,"slug":"statistics-canada-open-licence-value-added","title":"Statistics Canada Open Licence: explicitly permits \"use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["regulatory-compliance","open-data"],"reference_body":"**Quote (Statistics Canada Open Licence):**\n\n> \"Use, reproduce, publish, **freely distribute, or sell value-added products**.\"\n\n**Source:** <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified (primary).\n\n**Required source line:** `Source: Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date.` A truncated form (`Statistics Canada, reference year`) plus a linked reference list is acceptable per the StatCan FAQ.\n\n**Key infrastructure:** Statistics Canada operates a **Web Data Service (WDS) REST API** with daily updates at 8:30 AM Eastern. \"The Daily\" — StatCan's official release bulletin — publishes at 8:30 AM Eastern every working day; Labour Force Survey and CPI at 7:00 AM.\n\n**Concrete dataset:** Building Permits Survey covers ~2,400 municipalities (95% of population); March 2026 release was published May 19, 2026. This is the highest-leverage Canadian open dataset for construction/real-estate/lending/insurance use cases. See [[underexploited-canadian-open-data-by-industry]].","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"ogl-canada-v2-perpetual-royalty-free-commercial","title":"OGL-Canada v2.0: worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence for commercial use","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"attribution-checklist-by-source","title":"Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"underexploited-canadian-open-data-by-industry","title":"Reference: underexploited Canadian open data by industry — highest-leverage starts for KW SMB clients","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"rule-attribution-discipline-on-every-data-product","title":"RULE: Every Candid data product carries source attribution per the [[attribution-checklist-by-source]]. Mis-attribution terminates the licence.","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-public-data-private-moat","title":"Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.153Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.153Z"}