Ontario bills

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.

This Ontario bill enacts the Farmland Security Act, 2026 to restrict foreign and designated persons from purchasing farmland, and makes sweeping amendments to agricultural legislation including beef cattle marketing, milk and dairy regulation, food safety, farm dispute resolution, the Ontario Food Terminal, farmer payment protections, and veterinary professional oversight.

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 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 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 bill amends the Retail Sales Tax Act to allow the Minister to create regulations providing rebates or credits of up to $50,000 to buyers of residential property, covering all or part of the federal portion of HST paid on those purchases, with purchase agreements needing to be signed by no later than March 31, 2027.

This Ontario bill establishes a comprehensive framework to address anti-Black racism in the province's healthcare system, requiring publicly funded health institutions to conduct racial equity audits, collect and publish race-based data, create Black-led advocacy units in hospitals, and comply with enforceable accountability measures including potential funding consequences for non-compliance.

This Ontario bill amends correctional services legislation to require the Minister to develop a plan to implement the Correctional Services Transformation Act, 2018, establishes whistle-blower protections for those reporting contraventions within correctional institutions, expands the Inspector General's powers to compel information from correctional facility managers and government officials, and requires public disclosure of residential correctional institution population data.