Licensing
The data is free. The terms are short.
What you may do
Use it inside your organisation without limit. Analyse it, join it to your own records, derive from it, and publish maps, figures and findings in reports, presentations, council papers and public documents.
Academic and research use is included, published openly or not.
There is no seat count and no expiry. A file you downloaded stays usable under the terms in force when you took it.
What you may not do
Redistribute the files. Not as a download, not as an API, not as a tile service, not bundled into a product you sell. The distinction is whether someone else ends up holding the data or holding a conclusion drawn from it.
A consultancy analysing the data for a client is using it. A consultancy handing the client a geodatabase is redistributing it. If a district wants the file, send them here — it is free, and it takes them a minute.
If redistribution is genuinely what you need, ask. It is usually arrangeable; it just is not automatic.
Attribution
Required wherever a derived map or figure is published. Each download includes an ATTRIBUTION.txt with the exact wording, because several underlying sources are open data carrying their own attribution requirements that bind you as well as us.
This is the most commonly missed obligation and the easiest to satisfy.
Parcels are excluded
The parcel layer shown on the catalogue map is display context only. It is not part of any download and no licence granted here covers it. Parcel terms vary by province and municipality and are being worked through source by source.
No warranty
The data records addresses asserted by their sources. It is not warranted as a record of occupancy, habitability, ownership or service eligibility, and it should not be the sole basis of a decision that materially affects an individual person or property.
Hosted maps
Different terms. Map hosting is a service agreement, covered separately at the point of quotation.