Ontario bills

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 omnibus bill amends 22 different Acts to reduce regulatory burden across multiple sectors, including streamlining municipal financial reporting (moving from newspaper to website publication), expanding consumer protections for rewards points programs, easing Crown forest resource removal permitting, introducing administrative penalties for funeral/burial service operators, allowing open liquor consumption in designated provincial park areas, and modernizing various administrative processes such as electronic service delivery.

This Ontario omnibus bill streamlines mining and infrastructure permitting, restricts foreign participation in energy sector procurement, creates special economic zones where regulatory requirements can be waived, replaces the Endangered Species Act with a less restrictive Species Conservation Act, and exempts certain projects (including Ontario Place and the Eagle's Nest mine) from environmental assessment requirements.

This Ontario bill removes interprovincial trade barriers by establishing mutual recognition of goods standards and professional credentials between Ontario and reciprocating Canadian provinces/territories, speeds up labour mobility for out-of-province certified workers, enables direct-to-consumer interprovincial alcohol sales, and proclaims the last Friday of June as Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day.

This bill amends Ontario's Gift of Life Act to allow deceased organ and tissue donors to be publicly identified and recognized through memorials or other hospital tributes, provided specific conditions are met including family consent and a six-month waiting period after transplant.

This Ontario bill amends the Gift of Life Act to switch organ and tissue donation from an opt-in consent model to an opt-out (presumed consent) model, meaning that upon death, a person's tissue may be removed for therapeutic, educational, or research purposes unless the person or their substitute has registered an objection. Parents or guardians must still provide explicit consent for children under 16.

This Ontario bill prohibits the consumption of illegal substances (controlled drugs) in public places, with penalties up to $10,000 and six months imprisonment, and strengthens trespass penalties by adding aggravating factors for repeat or persistent trespassers.

This Ontario bill amends the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 and the Integrated Community Health Services Centres Act, 2023 to crack down on unfair fees charged to patients by regulated health professionals and community health centres, introducing professional misconduct findings, mandatory reimbursement, licence suspensions, and potential licence revocation for those who charge unfair fees.

This bill amends Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 to classify all employers operating residential care facilities (including retirement homes, rest homes, and senior citizens' residences) and group homes as Schedule 1 employers, requiring them to carry WSIB coverage for their workers.

This Ontario law strengthens accountability for municipal councillors and local board members by centralizing and standardizing codes of conduct under provincial authority, and creating a new process where a municipal Integrity Commissioner can escalate serious misconduct cases to the provincial Integrity Commissioner of Ontario, potentially resulting in a councillor losing their seat.

This Ontario bill enacts new measures to combat crime and strengthen public safety, including prohibiting landlords from knowingly allowing their properties to be used for drug production or trafficking, banning possession of electronic car-theft devices, expanding the sex offender registry, enhancing police powers, reforming the judicial appointments process, and broadening access to restraining orders for victims of intimate partner violence.

This Ontario omnibus health care bill introduces mandatory reporting requirements for health care staffing agencies, creates a framework for digital health identifiers to let patients access their health records online, restructures Hamilton's board of health, expands nurse practitioners' authority under the Mandatory Blood Testing Act, and strengthens public health oversight by requiring Chief Medical Officer approval for class health orders.

This Ontario bill increases the small business tax deduction rate from 8.3% to 9.9% and raises the business income limit eligible for the deduction from $500,000 to $600,000, effective January 1, 2026.

This Ontario bill amends the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021 and the Retirement Homes Act, 2010 to strengthen protections for seniors, including requiring dementia care programs, creating new criminal offences for abuse or neglect of residents, expanding inspection and investigation powers, allowing nurse practitioners to serve as Clinical Directors, and granting retirement home residents the right to ongoing caregiver support.

This Ontario bill creates 150-metre access zones around religious institutions (churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and cemeteries) and prohibits activities within those zones that discourage people from accessing the institution, including intimidation, persistent requests to leave, surveillance, and threatening conduct.

This Ontario bill amends multiple acts to speed up housing construction, infrastructure development, and transit projects by reforming development charges, streamlining municipal approval processes, reducing building setback requirements, exempting long-term care homes from development charges, and expanding provincial powers over transit-oriented community projects.

This is Ontario's Supply Act for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, authorizing the provincial government to spend approximately $203.6 billion on public services, capital investments, and legislative offices for the period ending March 31, 2025.

This Ontario bill amends the Health Protection and Promotion Act to establish mandatory maximum patient-to-nurse ratios in hospitals, ranging from 1:1 for ventilator patients to 7:1 for rehabilitative night-shift care, with the Ministry of Health responsible for enforcement.

This bill amends Ontario's Taxation Act, 2007 to create a non-refundable provincial tax credit of up to $1,000 for Ontario residents to offset costs of children's extra-curricular activities, effective for taxation years after 2024.

This Ontario bill creates an advisory committee to develop a 'Foodbelt Protection Plan' preserving a continuous agricultural land base, and amends the Planning Act to require an Agricultural Impact Assessment before any agriculturally zoned land can be rezoned or have its permitted uses changed, including by Minister's Zoning Order.