As of today, October 5, 2026, if you buy a new smartphone, laptop or tablet in Quebec, the law gives you three years of free repairs if it stops working properly. No extended warranty to buy, no fine print to sign. It’s the most concrete win yet for the right to repair, a movement that has spent a decade arguing that if you own something, you should be allowed to fix it. It used to be a niche cause championed by farmers locked out of their tractors and tinkerers with soldering irons. Now it’s written into law in Ottawa, Quebec…
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