Federal regulations

This regulation repeals Canada's Electric Vehicle Availability Standard (EVAS), which had required automakers to ensure that 20% of new light-duty vehicles offered for sale in 2026 be zero-emission vehicles, rising to 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. The repeal removes all ZEV sales quota obligations from manufacturers and importers, replacing them with a commitment to develop new technology-neutral greenhouse gas emission standards aimed at achieving 75% EV sales by 2035 and 90% by 2040.

These regulations implement the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act (UFPBA), requiring federally regulated private businesses in Quebec and designated regions with a strong Francophone presence to serve customers in French and allow employees to work in French. The regulations define which businesses are covered, set employee thresholds, identify the specific geographic regions that qualify, and establish compliance procedures including registration, committee requirements, and available exemptions.

These regulations modernize Canada's Enhanced Feed Ban (EFB) by allowing certain lower-risk cattle parts — previously classified as specified risk material (SRM) related to BSE (mad cow disease) — to be repurposed in non-ruminant livestock feed, fertilizer, and pet food, aligning Canada's rules with less restrictive U.S. standards while maintaining bans on these materials in human food and ruminant feed.

This is a correction (erratum) to the Official Languages Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations, fixing errors in the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement published on March 7, 2026, specifically clarifying violation categories and penalty ranges.

These regulations repeal and replace the existing Vancouver International Airport Zoning Regulations to protect land around YVR from incompatible development by imposing height limits on buildings and structures, prohibiting land uses that attract wildlife near flight paths, and banning interference with aircraft communications — while also adding new zoning protections for two potential future runway sites.

Amendment 19 updates Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 by raising minimum energy efficiency standards for approximately 20 product categories (including electric motors, clothes washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, and newly regulated products like air cleaners, pool heaters, and computer room air conditioners), while also removing roughly 300 outdated standards to reduce regulatory complexity and harmonize requirements with U.S. standards.

These regulations create Canada's open banking framework, allowing individuals and businesses to securely share their financial data with accredited third-party providers (such as fintech apps) through standardized APIs, replacing the current risky practice of screen scraping where Canadians hand over their banking passwords to access such services.

This regulation creates a temporary four-year exemption allowing livestock producers and provincially licensed slaughter establishments to trade raw red meat across provincial borders without a federal SFC licence, when there is a proven shortage of nearby slaughter capacity. It also fixes unnecessary inspection fee charges for continuous meat processing activities like freezing, and clears up ambiguity about when federal food safety rules apply to products made under an SFC licence.

These amendments update two federal measurement regulations: they expand the allowable test volume range for positive displacement liquid meters (from 900L up to 1,500L) to close a gap that was causing inspection problems, and they modernize both the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations and Weights and Measures Regulations by replacing outdated paper-based and location-based communication requirements with technology-neutral language.

This regulation removes the fixed 72-hour maximum soak time rules for unattended fishing gear from three Atlantic fishery regulations, replacing them with flexible, fishery-specific soak time limits set through individual fishing licence conditions managed by DFO.

These regulations require Canadian banks to get your explicit permission before turning on wire transfers, global money transfers, and Interac e-Transfers on your personal deposit account, let you turn those features off entirely, and report detailed fraud data annually to the federal government — all aimed at reducing the estimated $9+ billion in annual fraud losses Canadians actually suffer.

This regulation updates the rules that CDIC member institutions (banks and other deposit-taking institutions) must follow when informing depositors about deposit insurance coverage, including new staff training requirements, updated signage rules, video advertising disclosure requirements, and clearer trade name disclosures.

These rules update the procedural requirements for Canada's Refugee Protection Division (RPD) to align with new asylum system legislation, introducing a single online application process, earlier document disclosure deadlines, new pre-referral abandonment proceedings, and eliminating fax as an accepted method of communication with the RPD.

This regulation modernizes Canada's Pest Control Products Regulations by exempting certain low-risk products (like nitrification inhibitors) from registration requirements entirely, and authorizing others (like swimming pool chemicals, imported treated seed, biological control organisms, and supplement-pesticides) to be sold without full registration, while codifying existing operational policies into law and clarifying labelling requirements.

These regulations require certain international air carriers operating to and from Canada to create, implement, and maintain a written Security Program for Air Carriers (SPAC), bringing Canada into alignment with ICAO international aviation security standards that it has been out of compliance with since a 2016 audit finding.

This regulation increases the mandatory nuclear liability insurance limits that nuclear facility operators in Canada must carry, adjusts limits for lower-risk installations to account for inflation, and creates a new liability limit category for small modular reactors (SMRs) that scales with their thermal power output.

This regulation updates personal protective equipment (PPE) and fall protection requirements across five federal occupational health and safety regulations, harmonizing standards, modernizing terminology, and introducing new requirements such as mandatory proper PPE fit for all body types and fall-protection plans for marine and oil and gas employers.

This regulation updates the federal pension rules in two main ways: it lets retirees who keep their money in a defined contribution plan and draw variable benefits unlock up to 50% of those funds (the same option already available to those who move funds to a locked-in savings vehicle), and it sets the rules that defined benefit plan administrators must follow when buying 'buy-out' life annuities to fully transfer their pension obligations to a regulated life insurance company.

This regulation amends Canada's General Import Permit No. 83 to require aluminum importers to declare where their aluminum was smelted and cast (country of smelt and cast, or CSC) when importing aluminum products into Canada, enhancing transparency in the aluminum supply chain.

This regulation adds new export controls to Canada's Export Control List requiring businesses to obtain a government permit before exporting advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, high-performance computer chips and circuit boards, and specialized 3D printing powders to countries other than the United States.