Yes. Canadian law places no restriction on the use of a VPN, and there is no state filtering to speak of. What Canada has instead is a set of arrangements that quietly decide what people see.

Two are worth knowing:
  • Copyright here works on notice and notice, a system unique to Canada. A rights holder that spots an IP address in a file-sharing swarm sends a notice to the internet provider, and the provider is legally required to pass it on to whoever holds that connection. No court is involved and nothing is taken down; a letter simply arrives. It surprises people who expect the American approach.
  • News on Meta's platforms has been switched off for Canadian users since August 2023, when the company chose that over paying publishers under the Online News Act. Nothing is blocked by the government; a company made a decision and applied it to a country.
On the second of those, a straight answer is more useful than a sales pitch: a VPN is not a dependable way around it. Meta applies the block by account and region rather than by connection alone, so changing your address may do nothing at all. What a VPN reliably changes is which country a website thinks you are in and what your provider can read, and it is worth being clear about the difference.

Beyond that, the usual boundary holds. A VPN changes what is visible, not what is permitted.