Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34)
Bill — not yet law
Canada
· 2026
Introduced 10 June 2026, Bill C-34 would enact the Digital Safety Act and create a Digital Safety Commission of Canada — imposing safety duties, risk assessment and transparency on large online platforms, with a takedown regime for the most serious content. Its notable feature is that it applies expressly to AI CHATBOT SERVICES alongside social media, making it the first of the online-safety regimes in this catalog to name conversational AI in its scope rather than reaching it by interpretation.
This is a bill, not law. It has been introduced but not enacted, it can be
amended beyond recognition or die on the order paper, and nothing in it binds anyone today.
It is catalogued because the obligations it proposes are the ones worth building toward.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.