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Standardization helps support strong and prosperous international trade by breaking down barriers and levelling the playing field for all companies. By making sure Canada has a seat at the international table — in trade...

Explore SCC’s 2023–2024 annual report Standardization is vital to Canada’s future. It gives us a way to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing not only our country but society as a whole, bringing together many...

Lack of alignment of the Canadian Electrical Code across Canadian provinces and territories can be a technical barrier to trade. Regulatory inconsistencies, such as in the misalignment of electrical codes across provinces and...

This report, undertaken by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), focuses on increasing internal trade by addressing the ways standards can act as a barrier to trade. It explores the issues with CRN requirements in Canada...

​Standardization holds great promise to boost Canada’s competitiveness and safeguard the health and safety of its citizens. Senior decision-makers from Canada’s oil and gas sector are integral to strengthening Canada’s...

Standards and conformity assessment are critical enablers of the 21st-century knowledge economy, providing for effective, safe, reliable and interoperable products, services and processes. As it continues to respond to the...

Action plan for gender responsive standards and gender balance in standards development Globally, there is a growing recognition that standards may be experienced differently by women and men. This prompted the United Nations...

This white paper aims to equip SCC's AI and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative with the information necessary to understand how best to leverage AI standards and conformity assessment to advance Canada’s interests...

SCC created its Innovation Initiative in 2017 so Canadian innovators from coast to coast could reap the benefits that standardization offers. We engaged with more than 250 from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to...

Action required SCC’s Accreditation Program Overview has been redesigned, and is now broken down into separate Program Overviews for each accreditation program. Customers are urged to take note of these changes and update...