A Toronto small business serving customers across Canada hits the bilingual question quickly. A retailer in Liberty Village shipping to Montréal, a fintech firm in Yorkville pitching a Caisse pension, a wellness studio in Queen West taking bookings from Gatineau commuters — every one of them needs the French version of the site to be a real localised version, not a Google-Translate copy. Quebec Law 25 raised the bar in 2024; getting it wrong has both legal and reputational cost.
Toronto agency rates have followed the city's commercial real-estate trajectory — typical custom builds run C$8 000–C$40 000 plus retainer, often with the French version quoted as an add-on. For a four-person Liberty Village retailer or an indie wellness studio in Queen West, that money buys two months of paid acquisition.
We build EN/FR on the same site by default, designed to AODA / WCAG 2.2 AA, with Quebec Law 25-compliant data handling and Canadian payment processing. One monthly fee in CAD covers design, hosting on a Canada-edge network, the .ca or .com domain, ongoing updates, and French copy written by a Québécois copywriter — not 'translated by an intern from a Word document'.