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Canada has a federal standard, an Ontario statute and a Quebec standard, and procurement cites all three imprecisely. Here is what each one asks for, and what evaluators expect to see.

A municipal website is a service counter, not a brochure. Planning for council cycles, document volume, bilingual capacity and accessibility is most of the work.

Page migrations get planned. Document migrations get discovered. Inventory, triage, URL strategy and reconciliation, for the nine thousand PDFs nobody budgeted for.

Launch problems are rarely exotic: a staging noindex that shipped, a form that emails nobody, a redirect map built from memory. Thirteen checks, in the order we run them.

Most domain-name advice was written for a web that no longer exists. The seven decisions that actually matter for a Canadian organization, starting with who owns the registration.