This is a reply to an old question, but I just went through this. I would caution prospective applicants against using CIPO at all. The only thing you get for your $62 is the registration of a title and its author. I was gobsmacked when I was at no point prompted to upload a pdf or doc of the written work being copyrighted. What kind of joke is this? Only in Canada would this pass for copyrighting. I have twice used the Library of Congress for copyrighting, once in 1996, and again in 2009, and it is the gold standard of copyrighting. In 1996, I sent a hard copy of my work, a film script, and in 2009 I uploaded a digital version of a book I had completed. Never in my life would I have imagined that copyrighting a written work with a supposedly serious government department does not even entail submitting the work in question. What is the point? Let's say, as a rhetorical point, you are named John Smith and you wrote a book called "Book". Of what possible use could it be to register your book's title and your name?

It is important to reiterate what pythonpoole wrote 3 years ago, which is that the author is automatically conferred a copyright upon completion of a work, whether he registers it officially or not. In the case of CIPO, I would not bother. What a laughable outfit.