Manitoba bills

This Manitoba bill establishes a Declaration of Principles for Patient Health Care, setting out guiding principles and patient expectations for the provincial health system, and amends the Health System Governance and Accountability Act to allow the minister to share critical incident reports with health authorities for safety and advisory purposes.

This Manitoba bill establishes a provincial objective to eliminate mandatory overtime for nurses by allowing the minister to set benchmarks and requiring health authorities and health care organizations to develop plans to meet those benchmarks. It also protects nurses who refuse mandatory overtime outside of genuine emergencies from being found guilty of professional misconduct.

This Manitoba bill amends the Advocate for Children and Youth Act to expand the preamble recognizing children of all gender identities, allow the Advocate to enter into agreements with government bodies and service providers, and require a legislative review every seven years.

This bill amends Manitoba's Drinking Water Safety Act to give the director broader authority to classify water systems as private, public, or semi-public, and to order landowners to take responsibility for water systems when no owner can be identified.

This bill amends The Manitoba Hydro Act to allow Manitoba Hydro to create a curtailable power supply program specifically targeting customers who use electricity for cryptocurrency operations, enabling the utility to temporarily reduce power to those customers under defined conditions.

This Manitoba bill amends the Animal Care Act to require anyone who sells, transfers, or advertises pet animals to obtain a provincial licence, while also expanding court powers over animal ownership restrictions and significantly increasing penalties for violations.

This Manitoba bill strengthens enforcement of the Waste Reduction and Prevention Act by expanding inspection powers, introducing compliance orders and administrative monetary penalties, requiring independent audits of stewardship programs, and mandating public disclosure of compliance and enforcement actions.

This Manitoba bill amends the Adult Abuse Registry Act to streamline the review process by the Adult Abuse Registry Committee, replacing language about 'suspected' abusers with 'alleged in the report to have abused or neglected' a specified adult, and consolidating the committee's review into a single hearing while maintaining the accused person's right to provide information.

This Manitoba bill expands who can conduct psychiatric examinations and apply for involuntary psychiatric assessments under the Mental Health Act, adding physician assistants, clinical assistants, and nurse practitioners alongside physicians. It also formally authorizes remote examinations and review board hearings when in-person is not reasonably practicable.

This Manitoba bill amends the Consumer Protection Act to require manufacturers and sellers of designated consumer goods to make repair tools, parts, software, manuals, and diagnostics available to buyers at a reasonable cost and within a reasonable timeframe — commonly known as a 'right to repair' law.

This Manitoba bill strengthens whistleblower protections for public sector employees by closing gaps in how disclosures are handled when wrongdoing involves senior officials, invalidating non-disclosure agreements that would prevent protected disclosures, and shifting the burden of proof in reprisal complaints onto the accused party.

This Manitoba bill amends the Residential Tenancies Act to require landlords to register their rental units with the Director of Residential Tenancies, strengthen tenant privacy protections for older orders, increase administrative penalties, and mandate periodic reviews of rent regulation.

This Manitoba bill restricts when employers can ask employees for a sick note, limiting requests to absences longer than one week or more than 10 missed scheduled workdays in a calendar year, and requires employers to reimburse employees for the cost of obtaining the note.

This Manitoba bill creates a new unpaid 'attachment leave' of up to 16 weeks for employees who receive a child through adoption or surrogacy, amending the Employment Standards Code to recognize these paths to parenthood separately from existing maternity leave provisions.

This Manitoba bill prohibits carrying street weapons — including long-bladed weapons (like machetes and swords), axes, hatchets, and pepper spray — in public spaces within populated areas of the province, with specific exemptions for certain workers and situations.

This Manitoba bill expands the existing Long-Bladed Weapon Control Act to also regulate the sale of pepper spray, and explicitly brings online retailers and secondary sellers (e.g., garage sales, flea markets, online classifieds) under the Act's requirements.

This Manitoba bill formally recognizes sign languages — including American Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language, Indigenous sign languages, and tactile sign languages — as the primary languages of communication for the Deaf and Deaf-Blind communities in the province.

This Manitoba bill amends the Accessibility for Manitobans Act to update how accessibility standards are reviewed, change how public sector bodies prepare accessibility plans, and adjust the composition of the Accessibility Advisory Council. It also officially designates the week beginning on the last Sunday in May each year as Access Awareness Week.

This Manitoba bill requires the provincial government to automatically refer any law invoking the 'notwithstanding clause' (section 33 of the Charter) to the Court of Appeal for a legal opinion on whether the law violates Charter rights, within 90 days of enactment.

This bill amends the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act to clarify that any discount on vehicle insurance premiums must be based on the driver safety rating of the vehicle's registered owner, with regulatory provisions allowing exceptions in specific circumstances.