Canada: AI content labelling rules

The rules on labelling AI-generated content in Canada, what each asks of a file, and what one Kennmarq.com call adds.

In short

Images: No general rule found
Video: No general rule found
Audio: No general rule found
Text: No general rule found
3D: No general rule found
Rules: 1 bill or draft.
In the API: markets=ca

Updated 4 November 2026; sources checked 4 November 2026. Sources are government sites. This page explains what Kennmarq.com does; it isn't legal advice.

A voluntary federal code (2023) asks signatory developers of public generative AI to offer a free way to detect their content, e.g. watermarks.

Bills and drafts

Not law: they don't change a country's coverage or what a call needs.

Canada Bill C-34, Safe Social Media Act: Draft: not in force. Adequate measures to label realistic synthetic audio and visual content as synthetic, per regulations.

In the API

Send markets=ca on each call to POST /v1/mark: a call that lacks what Canada's rules need is refused before anything is counted, and each mark gets a receipt of what it carries for each law.

What a mark for Canada carries, by kind of file
File	Made with AI	A deep fake (`deepfake=true`)
Picture	Watermark and Content Credentials	Watermark and Content Credentials
Clip	Watermark and Content Credentials	Watermark and Content Credentials
Song	Watermark and Content Credentials	Refused for now: a song can't carry a visible label, and spoken notices for deep fakes aren't available yet: leave "deepfake" off for songs.

Mark a picture for Canada

curl https://api.kennmarq.com/v1/mark \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KENNMARQ_API_KEY" \
  -F file=@image.png \
  -F source=created \
  -F markets=ca \
  -o image.marked.png

An AI coding agent gets the same answer from the MCP tool get_requirements (MCP server).

Canada on the map, and every country's rules side by side.