Depends on what your idea is. Documenting it is great, but unless you actually go through the patent process you're not preserving anything. Without going through the disclosure/patent process, you risk someone else disclosing and/or filing first. Canada has a "first to file" system, and unless you can prove the other party straight up stole your idea from you, you're SOL. It doesn't matter if you can prove that you had the idea first.
If it really is a good idea, I'd get a lawyer to help you with the process. Be careful though, a lot of lawyers will charge you $3-5k to provide you with an opinion on a patent they know is unlikely to succeed. So I'd do a lot of your own research on the patent before paying for the lawyer.
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