Ontario bills

This bill requires Ontario's Minister of the Environment to review the existing regulation governing waste source separation programs for industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) sectors, with the goal of establishing clear, enforceable outcomes-based requirements such as diversion targets and contamination thresholds, and to report findings to the Legislative Assembly within nine months.

This Ontario bill requires mandatory sexual violence and harassment prevention training for workers in licensed liquor establishments and strengthens workplace harassment protections under the Occupational Health and Safety Act by explicitly addressing workplace sexual violence and requiring approved training for all employers and workers.

This Ontario bill directs the Minister of Health to ensure that massage therapy services provided by registered massage therapists receive the same tax treatment (likely HST/GST exemption) as massage therapy services provided by other health practitioners such as physiotherapists or chiropractors.

This bill amends Ontario's Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 to require the Minister to review and determine how to make textiles a designated waste material, assigning brand holders and others extended producer responsibility for textile collection, reuse, repair, and recycling.

This Ontario bill establishes a right to repair for consumers and independent repair shops by requiring suppliers and manufacturers of electronics, household appliances, agricultural equipment, motor vehicles, mobility aids, and recreational vehicles to provide repair documentation, parts, tools, and software at fair prices. Suppliers who refuse or cannot comply must replace the product or issue a full refund.

This bill requires Ontario's Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery to develop and implement a plan to establish an independent consumer watchdog organization responsible for overseeing consumer protection matters in Ontario, including investigating businesses, handling complaints, administering penalties, and publishing reports.

This bill requires mandatory regular inspections of Ontario driving schools that offer Class A (truck driver) training programs, with inspection results published online by the government.

This Ontario bill amends the Ticket Sales Act, 2017 to prohibit anyone from reselling or facilitating the resale of event tickets on the secondary market for more than the ticket's original face value, including fees and service charges.

This is Ontario's annual Supply Act authorizing the provincial government to spend approximately $222.8 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for public services, investments, and legislative offices for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026.

This bill amends Ontario's Labour Relations Act, 1995 to prohibit employers from using replacement workers (scabs) during lawful strikes or lockouts, except in specified emergency situations involving health, safety, or essential care services.

Ontario's 2026 budget implementation bill makes sweeping changes across multiple sectors: it amalgamates 35 conservation authorities into 8 regional bodies, removes Victoria Day and Family Day as mandatory retail closing holidays, changes liquor tax rates on beer/wine/spirits, caps secondary ticket resale prices at face value, adjusts corporate and personal tax rates (including small business deduction and dividend tax credits), introduces variable life benefits for pension plans, creates a provincial investment fund, and amends freedom of information laws.

This Ontario law makes it easier to build homes and improve transit by removing development barriers, standardizing transit fares and services across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, restructuring water and wastewater utilities, and updating planning rules to reduce municipal red tape for developers and builders.

This Ontario bill amends the Election Act and Election Finances Act to shift the appointment of returning officers from the Lieutenant Governor in Council to the Chief Electoral Officer, allows flexible polling day scheduling within a 36-to-42-day window after the writ, requires AI-generated political advertisements to include a disclosure statement, and prohibits the knowing transmission of false or misleading content about electoral processes.

This Ontario bill restructures the governance of eight regional and county municipalities by changing how their heads of council are selected (appointed by the provincial Minister or by council members rather than elected) and by altering council composition for the County of Simcoe, the Regional Municipality of Niagara, and certain Niagara-area lower-tier municipalities, effective after the 2026 municipal election.

This Ontario bill centralizes provincial ministerial control over school boards, child care operators, teacher education accreditation, and school board collective bargaining, while dissolving the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario and transferring employer bargaining agency roles from trustees' associations to the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE).

This Ontario bill amends the Health Protection and Promotion Act to require every board of health to ensure colon cancer screening, including colonoscopies, is available to all individuals aged 45 and older, lowering the typical screening age threshold.

This Ontario bill amends the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 and municipal legislation to expand rent control to all units (removing the post-2018 exemption), introduce vacancy control tying new-tenant rents to last lawful rents, establish a public rent registry maintained by the Landlord and Tenant Board, strengthen tenant protections during renovictions and demolitions, and create a Rental Task Force to study above-guideline rent increases.

This Ontario bill bans personalized algorithmic pricing — the practice of using consumer data (like browsing history, location, income, or spending patterns) to charge different prices to different individual shoppers — in both physical stores using electronic shelf labels and on online retail platforms.

This Ontario omnibus bill strengthens worker protections and streamlines business regulation by amending nine different Acts, including banning employers from charging staff for uniforms, creating a new licensing and enforcement regime for talent agencies, increasing WSIB loss-of-earnings benefits from 85% to 90%, extending WSIB payments past age 65 in some cases, shortening construction-industry union certification timelines, and speeding up environmental assessment approvals for infrastructure projects.

This Ontario bill amends the Gaming Control Act, 1992 to ban operators of electronic gaming (iGaming) sites, and anyone acting on their behalf, from advertising or promoting their online gambling platforms or offerings, with exceptions for imported media, artistic works, and editorial commentary.