Ontario bills

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 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.

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.