Do you offer service in French (fr-CA)?

Bilingual English and French service is on AskBaily's near-term roadmap for Toronto, and the regulatory and demographic case for it is straightforward. Statistics Canada's 2021 Census recorded roughly 60,000 Toronto residents whose first official language is French and another 195,000 city residents who speak French at home, and the Greater Toronto Area sits inside the broader Ontario Francophone population that triggers French-language service obligations under the French Language Services Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. F.32). While the FLSA technically binds only the Ontario government and its designated agencies, it has set the regional standard for Francophone-facing service in education, health, and licensed trades.

In practical terms, our Toronto homeowner experience is being staged in three layers. First, the AskBaily concierge interface handles French intake and chat replies for scoping, neighborhood questions, and partner matching, with all regulatory disclaimers translated to Quebec-French conventions even when the project sits in Ontario. Second, the matched-builder bench is filtered for at least one HCRA-licensed firm with confirmed bilingual project management capacity in each priority neighborhood, including Yonge-Eglinton, Riverdale, the Annex, and the Beaches. Where no bilingual partner is available we say so plainly rather than route a French-speaking homeowner to an English-only crew. Third, the dedicated /fr/toronto landing surface covers laneway and garden suite scoping, Committee of Adjustment timelines, and Tarion warranty explainers in French, with the same Schema.org QAPage and FAQPage markup as the English mirror so that francophone search engines surface the bilingual answer set directly.

Quebec proper, including Montreal, Laval, Quebec City, and Gatineau, falls under the Regie du batiment du Quebec rather than HCRA, so it requires its own licensing layer, contractor verification, and Charter of the French Language compliance. That work is queued in the AskBaily Phase 8 Wave 2 international expansion track rather than being mixed into Toronto operations, because the legal regime, warranty plan (GCR/Garantie de construction residentielle), and consumer protection rules are materially different from Ontario.