# Servers in Canada
> Toronto sits on TorIX with 12 ms to New York and 79 ms to London. Canada has no general retention mandate and runs a notice-and-notice copyright regime — hosts forward complaints instead of removing content — which makes it calmer than the United States for routine notices. It remains a founding Five Eyes member, so treat it as a latency choice.
**Source:** https://incognitovps.com/servers/canada
**Updated:** 2026-08-13

## Legal dossier — Canada

| Claim | Instrument | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| No general data-retention mandate for hosting providers | PIPEDA imposes minimisation duties, not retention duties | 2000 |
| Copyright notices are forwarded, not enforced — no takedown obligation | Copyright Act, s.41.25–41.26 (notice-and-notice regime) | 2015 |
| Signals-intelligence agency operates under statutory foreign-intelligence mandate | Communications Security Establishment Act (Bill C-59) | 2019 |
| Production orders available to law enforcement on judicial authorisation | Criminal Code, s.487.014–487.018 | 2014 |

## The trade-off

A Five Eyes country with one genuinely useful property: the notice-and-notice regime obliges a host to forward a copyright complaint to the customer, not to remove the content. That makes Toronto materially calmer than New York for the most common complaint type, without making it private — CSE operates under a foreign-intelligence mandate and Canada is a founding Five Eyes member. Good North American latency, mild copyright posture, no jurisdictional protection.

## Facility

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Facility | YYZ-1 · Markham |
| City | Toronto |
| Coordinates | 43.6532, -79.3832 |
| Uplink | 25 Gbps per node |
| EU member state | No |
| Eyes alliance | five Eyes |
| Live since | 2024 |
| Looking glass | lg-yyz.incognitovps.com |
| Test address | 185.132.44.144 |
| Network | TorIX peering, the largest exchange in Canada; transit via Cogent, Zayo and Bell. |

## Measured latency

| Destination | Round trip |
| --- | --- |
| Frankfurt | 92 ms |
| Amsterdam | 85 ms |
| London | 79 ms |
| New York | 12 ms |
| Singapore | 226 ms |

## Pricing here

| Product | From |
| --- | --- |
| Linux VPS | $4.50/mo |
| Dedicated servers | $52.50/mo |
| Windows RDP | $11.00/mo |
| Storage servers | $18.00/mo |

## Best for

- North American latency outside the US
- Seedboxes with a mild copyright profile
- Backup targets near US users

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Canada a good place to host a server?

Toronto sits on TorIX with 12 ms to New York and 79 ms to London. Canada has no general retention mandate and runs a notice-and-notice copyright regime — hosts forward complaints instead of removing content — which makes it calmer than the United States for routine notices. It remains a founding Five Eyes member, so treat it as a latency choice. The trade-off is set out in full on this page rather than omitted.

### Does Canada have mandatory data retention?

Canada imposes no general data-retention mandate on hosting providers. PIPEDA (2000) requires minimisation, not retention.

### Is Canada in Five Eyes or the EU?

Canada is a founding Five Eyes member and not an EU member state, so EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not reach it.

### What latency should I expect from Toronto?

Measured round-trip times: 92 ms to Frankfurt, 79 ms to London, 85 ms to Amsterdam, 12 ms to New York, 226 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is published at lg-yyz.incognitovps.com.


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