SEO monitoring
In Canada: Compare Google.ca rankings for English queries in Toronto or Vancouver with French queries in Montreal, where La Presse, Radio-Canada and French retailer pages compete for different results.
SEO monitoring proxiesCanada residential proxies from TrueProxies: 67 of 72 test requests exited in Canada on October 1, 2026. GB-based plans, from $1.64 for 1 GB, target by country, city, region or ASN; Unlimited plans, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, by country and city.
Coverage verified
3.0M+
residential IPs
67/72
requests exited in country
35
cities seen
450 ms
median response
Market context
Canadian storefronts price in CAD and split along two lines: province and language. Sales tax is added at checkout as GST, HST, PST or QST depending on the delivery province, so the same Amazon.ca cart totals differently in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal. In Quebec, the Charter of the French language, tightened by Bill 96 in 2022, requires French on commercial websites, and many national retailers serve French pages and separate promotions to Quebec shoppers. Payment is mostly by card and Interac debit, and Interac e-Transfer is the usual way to settle private sales.
Teams tracking the market usually watch Amazon.ca, Walmart.ca, Canadian Tire and Best Buy Canada for price and stock, Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace for classifieds, Realtor.ca and Quebec's Centris.ca for property listings, and SkipTheDishes, Uber Eats and DoorDash for restaurant delivery. Much alcohol retail runs through provincial boards such as the LCBO in Ontario and the SAQ in Quebec, each with its own online store and prices.
Google leads search, with Bing a distant second, and French queries in Quebec return a different set of publishers such as La Presse and Radio-Canada. Social feeds differ too: since 2023 Meta has blocked news links on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada in response to the Online News Act, so the same page shows a different feed from Canadian and US connections. Private-sector personal data falls under PIPEDA (2000), with Quebec's Law 25 of 2021 and the private-sector acts of Alberta and British Columbia adding their own rules.
Canada's sales calendar is not a copy of the US one. Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October, so no holiday weekend feeds into Black Friday, yet Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now major events for Amazon.ca and national chains, followed by Boxing Day on 26 December, which remains its own peak for electronics and clothing. In Quebec, 1 July is both Canada Day and Moving Day, when most leases turn over, so rental listings on Kijiji and Centris surge and moving companies charge far more than usual around that date. Back-to-school promotions run through August, before most provinces return to class around Labour Day.
Measured
Measured from our gateway in the Netherlands. Results describe the test, not a reserved exit, city or network. How we measure
In Canada: Compare Google.ca rankings for English queries in Toronto or Vancouver with French queries in Montreal, where La Presse, Radio-Canada and French retailer pages compete for different results.
SEO monitoring proxiesIn Canada: Check that campaigns on CBC, The Globe and Mail, La Presse and Radio-Canada show the right language and province-specific offers, and that French creatives serve to Quebec visitors.
Ad verification proxies in CanadaIn Canada: Compare Amazon.ca, Walmart.ca, Canadian Tire and Best Buy Canada prices, taxes and delivery promises by province, and track listings on Kijiji, Realtor.ca and Centris.ca.
Market research proxiesFrom $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps
From $1.64 for 1 GB
Integration
Select Canada with the country suffix -country-ca in your proxy username.
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER-country-ca:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
"https": "http://USER-country-ca:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
}
response = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies=proxies,
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Often, yes. Ontario checkouts add a single HST, while Quebec adds GST and QST separately, and many national retailers publish separate French pages and flyers for Quebec with their own promotions. Alcohol is priced by provincial boards, so LCBO and SAQ prices for the same bottle differ. Check from both provinces, in the matching language, before treating a price as national.
No. Amazon.ca and Walmart.ca run separate catalogs, sellers and prices from their US sites, prices are in CAD, and many US retailers redirect Canadian visitors or show different shipping terms. Facebook and Instagram show no news links to users in Canada, so social feeds look different too. Run Canadian checks from Canadian connections, and split them by province when taxes or language matter.
Yes. 67 of 72 test requests exited in Canada on October 1, 2026, from 62 IPs in Montreal, Toronto and London on Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Canada and Videotron Ltee. Both plans can also target a city there; GB-based plans add region and ASN targeting.
450 ms median response in our October 2026 test, timed from our gateway in the Netherlands.
Yes: 2 of 2 sticky sessions kept one IP for 30 minutes in our test.