The only market where French-English bilingual is the default, not a premium.

Yes, for customer-facing work. Vocabulary, idiom and register differ enough that Quebec customers reliably identify European-French speakers as foreign, which undermines exactly the trust you are staffing for. For internal or written work the gap matters less. We screen French capability with a native Quebec reviewer and send you the recording.

Canada runs well above Mexico or Colombia on loaded cost — it is an onshore-tier market, not a nearshore one. Buyers choose it for bilingual French, for data-residency posture, or because a US-adjacent brand voice is non-negotiable. If cost is the primary driver and French is not required, nearshore Latin America is the better call and we will say so.

We can staff natively bilingual advisors capable of handling French-language service to the standard those obligations contemplate. What we do not do is provide a legal opinion on your compliance position — your counsel owns that assessment. We can align our screening rubric to whatever standard they set.

First shortlist in about 72 hours. For 10–25 seats we typically place within 3–4 weeks. Bilingual French cohorts run slightly longer — the pool is smaller and we will not lower the language bar to hit a date. We would rather tell you week three than send you a B2 speaker.

Yes. We employ and payroll the advisor, including provincial employment-standards obligations, statutory deductions and vacation entitlement. You direct the day-to-day work. Employment standards differ by province, and our placements are structured against the province the advisor actually works in.