Québec recognizes electronic documents and signatures. A document whose integrity is ensured has the same legal value on paper or in electronic form (CQLR, c. C-1.1, s. 5), and a signature can link a person to a technology-based document when that link was established at the time of signing (s. 39). The Civil Code defines a signature as the mark a person uses to show consent (art. 2827).
Stellaire Sign records the three things that matter: who signed and how they were identified, that they consented, and that the document did not change.
Outside Québec, each province has its own electronic commerce act, most of them based on the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act; Ontario's Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 is one example.
A few acts still have their own formal requirements, for example notarial deeds and wills. When a specific document is in doubt, ask a lawyer or a notary.
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