Topics
Where a single obligation varies across all thirteen jurisdictions, a matrix beats thirteen hub pages. Planned first set, in build order:
- Telepractice & cross-border work — which regulator governs when the client and the clinician sit in different places, and what your college says about practising from abroad.
- GST/HST — the 2024 exemption for psychotherapy and counselling therapy services, and the traps that came with it.
- Privacy & data residency — which statute governs a private practice in each province, and what crossing a provincial border does.
- Records retention — minimum periods, minor-client rules, and where no standard is published.
- Liability insurance — required coverage and, critically, coverage territory.
- AI in practice — obligations that attach to the clinician using AI-enabled tools. One topic among the others, deliberately not the front door.
Matrices appear as their cells clear verification; a cell without a source and a last-verified date does not ship.
Liability insurance
Whether professional liability coverage is required, at what limits — and the territory question most policies answer quietly. Sourced and dated.
Privacy & data residency
Which privacy statute governs a private practice, what custodian status attaches, and what crossing a border does to the answer — sourced and dated.
Records retention
How long clinical records must be kept, per jurisdiction and per college — with the clock-start each regulator actually specifies, sourced and dated.
Telepractice & cross-border work
Whose rules apply when the client and the clinician aren't in the same place — per regulator, sourced and dated.
GST/HST
Every traced and verified route to the federal GST/HST exemption for behavioural-health services — one matrix, sourced and dated, built to hold more than one jurisdiction.