Record suspension cost: every fee, itemized.

Here is every cost that goes into a Canadian record suspension in 2026, in the same itemized format we use everywhere — because seeing the whole bill is the point.

The itemized table

The government's filing fee is fixed and modest. Fingerprints and local police checks are individually small, though they add up if you have lived in several places in the past five years — each place needs its own local check.

Where the incumbent markup hides

Firms often quote a single "all-in" number of $600 to $1,600 or more. When you decompose it, the government and record-check costs above account for only a fraction. The rest is preparation labour plus margin — and margin is where the four-figure quotes come from. There is nothing you can buy that makes the government move faster.

The same table, with us in it

We put our own fee inside the same format rather than hiding it in an "all-in" number:

The honest bottom line

The cheapest route is doing it yourself, and if you are comfortable organising records and forms, you should. If you would rather have the preparation handled, we charge a flat C$399 and show every government and record-check cost as a separate, customer-paid line. Our free eligibility check tells you your earliest eligible date before you spend a dollar.