Federal regulations

This regulation establishes the application requirements and permit conditions for building and operating international power lines crossing the Canada-U.S. border, replacing the old National Energy Board Electricity Regulations under the updated Canadian Energy Regulator Act.

This regulation replaces the current sales-based annual charge for pesticide product registrations with a tiered fee structure based on the number of registrations held by each registrant, roughly doubling total annual charge revenue collected from the approximately 700 pesticide companies registered in Canada to better fund Health Canada's post-market oversight activities.

These regulations implement Canada's new foreign influence transparency system by requiring anyone who enters into an arrangement with a foreign government, state-linked entity, or their proxies to register that arrangement in a public registry overseen by an independent Commissioner. The rules set out exactly what information must be disclosed, how often it must be updated, what gets published publicly, and the penalties for failing to comply.

These regulations modernize the Vessel Operation Restriction Regulations (VORR) by moving the eight schedules of waterway restrictions into a Transport Canada publication (TP 15587E) that is incorporated by reference, allowing the Minister of Transport to add or update local waterway restrictions without going through the full Governor in Council regulatory amendment process. The amendments also streamline enforcement officer designations, clarify ambiguous wording around engine power limits, and update the application requirements for local authorities seeking new restrictions.

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.

Amendment 18 updates Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 by adding or tightening energy efficiency and testing standards for a wide range of home, commercial, and industrial products — including air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, lighting, pool pumps, faucets, showerheads, air compressors, and line voltage thermostats — primarily to align with U.S. standards and, in some cases, exceed them to support Canada's net-zero by 2050 goals.

This regulation updates the Cannabis Regulations to align definitions, procedures, and terminology with the Controlled Substances Regulations, covering areas like pharmacist handling of cannabis drugs, destruction procedures, travel allowances, and record-keeping requirements.

These regulations modernize Canada's Medical Device Establishment Licensing (MDEL) framework by removing the requirement for foreign distributors to hold their own MDEL when their Canadian importer already holds one, requiring all importers and distributors to mandatorily submit supplier information annually, and making explicit the obligation to establish, implement, and maintain documented safety procedures.

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 regulations update supporting rules under the Canada Labour Code to implement three new employee leave entitlements for federally regulated workplaces: job-protected leave after a pregnancy loss (up to 3 days or 8 weeks for stillbirth), extended bereavement leave of up to 8 weeks following the death of a child, and up to 16 weeks of leave for parents adopting or welcoming a child through surrogacy.

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 Order allows Health Canada to accept drug approval decisions or review documents from trusted foreign regulatory authorities (such as those in Australia, the UK, or Switzerland) as satisfying part of its own review requirements, so that certain new drugs already approved abroad can reach the Canadian market faster without a full duplicate review.

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.

This regulation replaces outdated National Energy Board rules with a new framework under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, updating the rules for who needs approval to export or import oil, gas, and electricity, and what conditions apply to those approvals.

These new stand-alone Clinical Trials Regulations replace the existing drug clinical trial framework under the Food and Drug Regulations, directly regulating how clinical trials involving pharmaceutical and biologic drugs are conducted in Canada — not just the importation and sale of trial drugs — and introducing a flexible, risk-based authorization system that includes tools like terms and conditions, expanded investigator roles, and support for decentralized trials.

These regulations require large Canadian municipal solid waste landfills to install or expand landfill gas recovery systems, monitor and control methane emissions, and meet strict surface methane concentration limits — with the goal of cutting landfill methane emissions 50% below 2019 levels by 2030.

This regulation requires distributing banks and bank holding companies to publicly disclose detailed information about the diversity of their boards of directors and senior management, including representation data for designated groups such as women, Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis reported separately), persons with disabilities, and visible minorities.

This regulation is the second of two major update packages to Canada's Explosives Regulations, 2013, modernizing safety and security rules for the explosives industry by introducing a mandatory transport permit for carriers hauling explosives by road, requiring propellant powder retailers to register with NRCan, updating fees across all licence and permit categories, and clarifying or streamlining dozens of existing requirements for manufacturers, storers, transporters, and sellers of explosives.

The Controlled Substances Regulations (CSR) consolidate five existing sets of regulations and six class exemptions into a single, unified framework governing legitimate activities with all categories of controlled substances — narcotics, controlled drugs, targeted substances, and restricted drugs — conducted by licensed dealers, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, and individuals.

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.