You And Your Robot Are Welcome Here: Canada’s Friendly Drone Laws

Whether used to view real estate, monitor remote industrial operations, deliver goods, shoot scenes in the tv and film industry or assist with search and rescue, Canada's flexible regulations and its focus on enabling drone operations have made it a leader in the nascent drone industry. This is only logical: in Canada's remote and challenging terrain, the commercial use of drones makes a lot of sense. It may also be easier to integrate drones into our relatively uncrowded airspace. Other jurisdictions are working to catch up: for instance,  on March 29 of this year, the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data published a guidance note that supplements previous guidance on the use of closed circuit television systems and for the first time addressed the use drones.