Ontario bills

This Ontario bill proclaims the month of October each year as Kids' Online Safety and Privacy Month, aimed at raising awareness about online safety and privacy risks for children.

This Ontario bill proclaims February 23 of each year as Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day, recognizing the contributions of workers in restaurants, hotels, event venues, catering companies, and related services.

Ontario's 2025 omnibus budget bill makes sweeping changes across 18 schedules, including new manufacturing and shortline railway tax credits, restructuring of OMERS pension governance, creation of a new provincial conservation oversight agency, removal of fixed election dates, changes to election finance rules, new corporate beneficial ownership reporting, pharmacy insurance reimbursement rules, and amendments to the Ontario Place redevelopment framework.

This Ontario bill requires the Minister to ensure that at least 70% of staff at hospitals, long-term care homes, home care agencies, and health care providers with more than 20 employees are permanent full-time, mandates higher wages and benefits for personal support workers, and extends minimum wage and overtime protections to homemakers.

This Ontario bill amends the Metrolinx Act, 2006 to require integration of municipal bike share systems and mandate that at least 20% of residential units built on disposed Metrolinx land be affordable. It also amends the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act to set mandatory maintenance standards for Highways 11, 17, and 69 and requires the Minister to develop a plan to upgrade these highways to a 2+1 (three-lane alternating passing lane) configuration.

This bill creates a new legislative framework in Ontario for life leases — long-term residential occupancy agreements that entitle a person to live in a unit for life or a lengthy fixed term. It establishes rules around financial disclosure, reserve funds, meetings of life lease holders, and prohibits false or misleading information by life lease sponsors, with significant fines for non-compliance.

This Ontario bill requires public sector entities to follow procurement directives that give preference to Ontario and Canadian-made goods and services, with enforcement mechanisms including fund withholding and compliance reviews. It also amends the Highway Traffic Act regarding school zone and community safety zone signage and preserves certain provisions of the Protecting Condominium Owners Act from automatic repeal.

This bill establishes an Urban Wildfires Advisory Committee in Ontario to assess the growing risk of urban wildfires, develop prevention and response recommendations, and ultimately lead to new plans, regulations, and legislation to protect Ontario communities from urban wildfire threats.

This Ontario bill amends Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000 to allow the disclosure of sex offender registry information to prescribed entities (beyond just police services) for crime prevention or law enforcement purposes, subject to a formal agreement between the Ministry and the prescribed entity.

This Ontario omnibus act toughens bail enforcement, road safety penalties, and animal research and welfare rules, while also formalizing a scholarship fund for families of public safety officers killed in the line of duty.

This Ontario bill annexes portions of the Township of Oro-Medonte and the Township of Springwater to the City of Barrie, effective January 1, 2026 or later, transferring real property, extending Barrie's by-laws to the annexed areas, and phasing in property tax rate changes over several years.

This Ontario bill amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to strengthen protections for workers who speak out about workplace violence and harassment, and requires hospitals and long-term care homes to publicly report monthly incident counts on their websites.

This bill establishes a Commissioner for Democratic Rights as an officer of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, tasked with monitoring barriers to voting, reviewing legislation and government actions affecting democratic rights, reporting on provincial interventions into local government, and promoting civic education and democratic participation.

This Ontario bill amends the Highway Traffic Act to explicitly prohibit drivers from passing or attempting to pass another vehicle by crossing double solid yellow lines, imposing a $400 fine and three or more demerit points for violations.

This Ontario bill establishes a Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee that must be created within 60 days of the Act coming into force, tasked with recommending ways to improve access to and insurance coverage for gender affirming health care in the province.

This Ontario bill establishes a comprehensive climate change adaptation and resilience framework, requiring the provincial government to develop a strategic action plan, create a Climate Adaptation Fund, establish a resource centre and a cross-government coordination secretariat, and implement specific measures addressing floods, extreme heat, wildfires, storms, infrastructure resilience, agriculture, and ecosystem protection.

This Ontario bill amends the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 to impose stricter requirements on landlords seeking above guideline rent increases (AGIs) for capital expenditures, giving the Landlord and Tenant Board new powers to dismiss applications based on tenant hardship and excluding cosmetic, routine, and non-arm's-length costs from eligible increases.

This Ontario bill amends the Mandatory Blood Testing Act, 2006 to allow applications for blood testing analysis to continue or be initiated even when the person whose blood is being sought (the respondent) has died, either during the application process or before the application is made.

This Ontario bill requires health care organizations and their suppliers that receive at least $1 million in public funds from the Ministry of Health to comply with executive compensation caps, public salary disclosure rules, Ombudsman oversight, and Auditor General audits.

This Ontario bill repeals the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 and replaces it with a new workers' compensation framework that significantly expands benefits for injured workers, including 90% wage replacement, enhanced rehabilitation and retraining programs, a new pension plan for permanently injured workers, and broader coverage for medical expenses, pain and suffering.