How Quebec Law 25 treats decisions made by AI, the disclosure and human-review obligations, and how to design for them.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
When AI makes decisions about people — approving credit, screening candidates, routing service — Canadian law has something to say, and Quebec’s Law 25 says it most clearly.
The Quebec rule
Law 25 requires that when a decision is based exclusively on automated processing of personal information, the business must inform the individual, explain the principal factors on request, and offer the chance to have a staff member review it. This came into force September 22, 2023.
Designing decision systems for it
Build AI decision systems so they can: record that automated processing occurred, surface the principal factors behind a decision, and route to a human reviewer on request. These are design choices, best made upfront rather than retrofitted.
Beyond Quebec
Outside Quebec there is no identical federal rule (AIDA, which would have addressed high-impact AI, is dead), but PIPEDA’s accountability and fairness principles and human-rights obligations still apply — and bias testing on decision models is a real obligation. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Canadian managed region. For data that must stay in Canada, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Canadian cloud region such as AWS Canada (Montréal/Calgary), Azure (Toronto/Quebec City) or Google Cloud (Montréal), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Canadian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.