Canadian Numbers for Each Client Account
Each client account gets numbers in the area codes their own customers recognise, managed from one place rather than through a support ticket to a vendor.
Locations
The licence works the same wherever you are. What is different about selling it in Canada is the two questions every prospect asks — who is responsible when the agent dials, and where does the recording go.
The basics
You are selling your clients a phone line that has to satisfy Canadian calling rules and Canadian privacy expectations — the platform underneath is the easy part. Agencies that have resold US voice platforms into Canada usually discover the gap at the same two points. The first is a client asking who is on the hook if the agent calls somebody it should not have, which is a question about your contract with them rather than about the software. The second is a privacy officer asking where the recordings live, which is a question about your deployment architecture. Neither is difficult once decided; both are awkward if the first time you think about them is in front of a client. Licence terms and pricing are on the white-label licensing page — this page is only about the Canadian layer on top.
In short
The market
There is a repeatable pattern in Canadian voice AI deals right now. A prospect shortlists two or three vendors, the demos all go well, and then somebody in procurement or compliance asks a question that has nothing to do with call quality: where does the audio live, who is accountable under Canadian rules, and what happens if a caller asks for their data. The vendor who has a rehearsed, specific answer wins, and the vendor who has to go and find out loses a deal they were technically leading. For an agency reselling under its own brand, that answer is your product as much as the voice is.
This is why licensing rather than reselling somebody's SaaS matters commercially here. When you hold the licence you can answer the hosting question with a decision rather than a request to your vendor, you can put your own name on the contract that allocates responsibility, and you can price in Canadian dollars against a cost base you control. Agencies that have made that switch tend to report the same thing: the sales cycle shortens, not because the pitch improved, but because the objections stopped needing a second meeting.
9:00–21:30
The window every client account must respect
Weekday telemarketing hours run to 9:30 p.m. and weekends 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., measured where the recipient is — so a national client list spans several windows at once.
Not CASL
Canadian Telemarketing Rules for AI Voice Agents
Voice calls fall under the CRTC's telemarketing rules rather than the anti-spam legislation, which governs commercial electronic messages sent to an electronic address.
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Provincial privacy acts to account for
Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec each have a private-sector act that generally displaces the federal one inside that province, so a national client base sits under several regimes.
Who is calling
The easiest first vertical for a Canadian agency: high missed-call volume, clear payback, and an owner who answers the phone themselves today.
Clinic clients bring the privacy questions earliest, which makes them a good test of whether your answers are ready.
Brokerages and property managers, where enquiry response time is measurable and the pitch nearly writes itself.
What the rules require
This is the section your prospects are really asking about. It is worth having a settled position before the first call rather than drafting one during a procurement review.
CRTC Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules
The calling-hour windows, the identification requirement and the do-not-call screening attach to the business on whose behalf a call is placed — which, for a reselling agency, is normally your client rather than you or us. That does not make it their problem alone in practice: you are the one configuring the account, so the platform enforces the window per recipient from the destination number and refuses suppressed numbers by default across every client account you run. What your contract with the client should do is state plainly who is responsible for the accuracy of the list and the identification line, because that is where disputes actually arise.
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
Canadian clients frequently arrive convinced that the anti-spam legislation governs their calling programme. It does not — the CRTC's guidance is explicit that unsolicited telecommunications to telephone numbers sit under the telemarketing rules instead, and that the anti-spam regime applies to commercial electronic messages sent to an electronic address, which includes SMS. Being the person in the room who gets that right, and who then points out that the confirmation text after the call genuinely does fall under the other regime and needs its own consent, is worth more in a competitive deal than another feature slide.
Federal transfer guidance and provincial acts
The honest answer is that Canadian privacy law does not require personal information to be stored in Canada: what it requires is accountability for the information, a comparable level of protection secured contractually, and transparency that it may be processed elsewhere. Meanwhile Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec each have their own act displacing the federal one for in-province activity, and Quebec adds an assessment before information leaves the province. So the accurate answer to a client is that residency is available and often sensible, but is a procurement choice rather than a legal requirement — except in Quebec, where an extra step genuinely applies.
CRTC caller ID authentication
Canadian providers have had to authenticate caller ID on IP-based voice calls since November 2021, and the attestation a call carries depends on whether the number is genuinely registered to the deployment placing it. For a reseller running many client accounts, that argues strongly for provisioning or porting numbers into the platform per client rather than letting clients point arbitrary caller ID at it. It is also a useful differentiator: answer rates on borrowed caller ID degrade over time, and a client whose campaign quietly stops working will blame the agent rather than the number.
This describes the published rules rather than legal advice, and it is not a substitute for the contract between you and your client. What it should give you is enough to draft that contract with your own counsel rather than discovering the questions in front of a prospect.
Numbering
Reselling changes the numbering problem: instead of one business's numbers, you are managing a growing estate of them across clients who each want to look local.
Each client account gets numbers in the area codes their own customers recognise, managed from one place rather than through a support ticket to a vendor.
Most clients want to keep the number already on their signage, so porting is a standard onboarding step rather than an exception you handle case by case.
Because the numbers sit with the deployment, the calls carry a strong caller-ID attestation instead of the weak one that erodes answer rates on borrowed identity.
Calling-hour rules apply per recipient on every account, so a new client cannot accidentally configure a campaign that dials Vancouver before the window opens.
Capabilities
Everything the platform does is available under your brand. What matters for a Canadian reseller is the handful of capabilities clients ask about by name before signing.
English and French among the six languages available, which stops being a nice-to-have the moment a client has Quebec customers.
Each account configured to sound like the business it belongs to rather than like a platform with a logo changed.
The call data your clients want to see monthly, which for an agency is most of what makes a retainer renewable.
Client systems vary far more than your own would, so integration breadth matters more to a reseller than to an end user.
One agent for both directions, answering every inbound call and running outbound reminders, follow-ups, and lead qualification.
Every call recorded, transcribed, and summarized, caller, intent, outcome, and next steps logged automatically.
Coverage
The markets our Canadian licensees serve their own clients in. These are their markets rather than ours, and we hold no office in any of them.
A licensee sells under their own brand and their own contracts. We are not in the room, which is rather the point — but the regulatory questions above will be, so it is worth arriving with answers.
Further reading
Rules change, and court decisions change them faster than regulators republish. Every statement above was read from the source shown on the date shown. Confirm the current position with your own counsel before relying on it.
FAQ
What Canadian agencies ask before they take the licence.
The CRTC's rules attach to the business on whose behalf the call is placed, which in a reselling arrangement is normally your client rather than you or us. In practice that clean line gets muddy because you configured the account, so the sensible move is to state in your own client contract who is responsible for list accuracy and for the identification line. The platform does the mechanical part regardless — calling windows applied per recipient from the destination number, suppressed numbers refused — but a contract that allocates the rest is what keeps a dispute from becoming yours.
You can offer it, and you should be careful how you describe it. Canadian privacy law does not require personal information to be stored in Canada — it requires that you remain accountable for it, secure a comparable level of protection, and be transparent that it may be processed elsewhere. So a licensee can honestly offer Canadian hosting as an option and, in Quebec, point to a genuine extra requirement before information leaves the province. What you should not do is tell a client the law forces it, because a competent privacy officer will know that it does not and it will cost you the room.
You need the agent to, more than you do. French is one of the six languages the hosted platform speaks, and a licensed deployment extends further, so the product side is covered. What you should be ready for is the conversation about Quebec's language expectations for consumer-facing service and its rule about decisions made purely by automated processing — the Quebec page covers both. Agencies that can hold that conversation credibly are competing against very few others who can.
Mostly in who can answer a question without asking someone else. On a reseller arrangement the hosting decision, the contract terms and the roadmap all sit with a vendor you have to go back to, which turns every procurement question into a two-meeting process. With the licence you hold those decisions yourself, price in your own currency against a cost base you control, and put your own name on the agreement. The commercial terms of the licence are set out on the licensing page rather than here.
Trades and home services, almost always. The missed-call problem is severe and obvious, the owner is usually the person currently answering the phone so they feel it personally, and the payback arithmetic is simple enough to do on a first call. Clinics convert well too but bring the privacy conversation forward, so they are a better second vertical than a first — go there once your answers on hosting and consent are rehearsed rather than improvised.
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