Ontario bills

This Ontario bill amends the Education Act to require school boards to maintain indoor temperatures at or below 26°C in school buildings and buses, develop annual heat mitigation strategies and emergency plans, and have the Minister of Education review and publicly report on these strategies at least every three years.

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 amends the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 to implement vacancy rent control (capping rent for new tenants based on what the previous tenant paid), establishes a mandatory rent registry maintained by the Landlord and Tenant Board, strengthens landlord maintenance obligations and enforcement mechanisms, and requires Legal Aid Ontario to provide free legal representation to tenants facing above-guideline rent increase applications.

This Ontario bill requires the provincial government to develop a plan within 12 months to make food more affordable by eliminating restrictive property covenants that limit competition among grocery retailers and by removing the HST on all food products and non-alcoholic beverages.

This Ontario omnibus bill accelerates infrastructure and housing construction by streamlining transit project approvals, amending construction lien and holdback rules, changing development charge requirements for municipalities, restricting municipal ability to reduce road lanes for bike lanes, reforming Landlord and Tenant Board processes, transferring Peel Region water/sewage jurisdiction to lower-tier municipalities, and creating a new framework for water and wastewater public corporations.

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 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 requires the Attorney General to publish annual progress reports on implementing sexual assault case handling recommendations, mandates police services to inform sexual assault complainants about the Independent Legal Advice Program, and removes time limits on mental health funding provided by regulatory bodies for alleged victims of sexual abuse by regulated professionals.

This Ontario bill amends the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, 2017 to significantly restrict how vaping products can be sold and promoted, raising the legal purchase age to 21, banning most flavoured vapes and online sales, and limiting retail sales to approved specialty vape stores or designated rural stores.

This bill officially designates May 28 as Menstrual Health Day in Ontario each year, raising awareness about menstrual health equity and the affordability of menstrual products, particularly for low-income, Indigenous, and young people.

This bill creates an accreditation system for Franco-Ontarian bookstores in Ontario and requires all publicly funded institutions to purchase French-language books exclusively from these accredited bookstores. It also prohibits predatory pricing and disguised advantages in book selling, establishes a potential provincial support fund for Franco-Ontarian bookstores, and amends the French Language Services Act to require government agencies to actively support Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions.

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 amends the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 and the Retirement Homes Act, 2010 to cap and regulate fee increases for care services and meals in care homes (including retirement residences), require transparent itemized pricing, and strengthen tenants' rights to modify or cancel additional services.

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 increases provincial ministerial oversight of children's aid societies, school boards, and post-secondary institutions by expanding investigation and intervention powers, requiring new audit and compliance structures for school boards, mandating merit-based admissions and research security plans at colleges and universities, and broadening Ombudsman functions for child and youth services.

This Ontario law transfers ownership and control of City of Toronto-owned lands at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (Toronto Island Airport) to the provincial Crown, and replaces the City of Toronto with the Crown in the longstanding 1983 Tripartite Agreement governing the airport. The City receives market-value compensation for the transferred properties, with disputes settled by binding arbitration.

This Ontario bill requires the Minister of Health to examine creating a grant program to help cover travel costs for Ontarians who must travel 100+ kilometres to access medical specialist services not available in their local communities, and to report findings to the legislature within six months.

This Ontario bill creates a mandatory licensing scheme for operating zoos and keeping wild animals in captivity, establishing standards of care, annual inspections, enforcement powers, and penalties for non-compliance.

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 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.