Statistics Canada Open Licence: explicitly permits "use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products"
Quote (Statistics Canada Open Licence):
"Use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products."
Source: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
Confidence: Verified (primary).
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.
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.
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 Reference: underexploited Canadian open data by industry — highest-leverage starts for KW SMB clients.
Referenced by (4)
- reference Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source depends-on
- reference Reference: underexploited Canadian open data by industry — highest-leverage starts for KW SMB clients depends-on
- rule RULE: Every Candid data product carries source attribution per the [[attribution-checklist-by-source]]. Mis-attribution terminates the licence. depends-on
- reference Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15) relates-to