Federal regulations

These amendments fix three gaps in the Aquatic Invasive Species Regulations: they explicitly authorize the use of companion substances (like deactivating agents) alongside pesticides used to control invasive species, make it an offence to violate conditions on authorizations, and allow regulators to amend, suspend, or cancel previously issued authorizations.

These regulations establish the rules and procedures for the new Employment Insurance Board of Appeal, a tripartite three-person panel system that will replace the Social Security Tribunal's General Division for first-level EI appeals, making the process easier to navigate for claimants and employers disputing EI benefit decisions.

These amendments update the Old Age Security Regulations to clarify the documents and procedures the Minister can use to verify an applicant's identity, age, marital status, and common-law partnership when processing OAS benefit applications.

These regulations implement equal pay rules for federally regulated workers, requiring that part-time, temporary, casual, and seasonal employees be paid the same rate as full-time or permanent employees doing substantially the same work in the same location. They also set rules for temporary help agencies, including prohibiting agencies from charging fees to workers and requiring equal pay between agency staff and the client employer's own employees doing the same job.

This proposed order updates Schedule IX of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to expand the definition of regulated tablet press and capsule-filling equipment, including components like dies, moulds, and punches, whether assembled, partially assembled, or disassembled.

This regulation increases the minimum approach distance for Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) in Canadian Pacific fisheries waters from 200 metres to 1,000 metres, and makes several technical clarifications to the Marine Mammal Regulations, including explicitly covering drones and making marine mammal transportation licences discretionary.

This regulation creates an automatic approval process for routine maintenance and repair work on classified municipal drains in Ontario, eliminating the need for municipalities to apply to Fisheries and Oceans Canada for project-specific review under the Fisheries Act, provided they follow prescribed conditions.

These regulations modernize Canada's insolvency system by updating the Bankruptcy and Insolvency General Rules and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Regulations to allow digital communications and recordkeeping, raise fee thresholds for Licensed Insolvency Trustees (LITs), and increase the asset and debt limits that qualify debtors for streamlined insolvency proceedings.

This order suspends the application of federal methane emission regulations in Saskatchewan from 2025 to 2029, recognizing that Saskatchewan's own provincial regulations and directives will achieve equivalent greenhouse gas reductions for the upstream oil and gas sector.

These regulations define what counts as a 'protection order' under Canadian firearms law, making it mandatory for courts and other authorities to report such orders to Chief Firearms Officers within 24 hours, which automatically triggers firearms licence revocation and surrender of firearms. They also establish the process and factors for issuing a conditional firearms licence to people who lose their licence due to a protection order but need a rifle or shotgun for sustenance hunting or trapping.

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 updates the rules for who can serve as an independent director on Payments Canada's Board of Directors, expanding the eligible pool of candidates and shortening the required waiting period before former industry insiders can qualify.

These regulations replace outdated National Energy Board rules with updated Export and Import Reporting Regulations under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, modernizing what oil, gas, and electricity exporters and natural gas importers must report to the Canada Energy Regulator on a monthly basis.

This Order declares that federal methane emission regulations for the upstream oil and gas sector do not apply in British Columbia, renewing a previous equivalency arrangement by recognizing that BC's own provincial regulations achieve equivalent or better greenhouse gas reduction outcomes.

These regulations require petroleum liquid storage tanks and loading racks at terminals, refineries, upgraders, petrochemical facilities, and bulk plants across Canada to be fitted with emissions control equipment (such as floating roofs or vapour recovery systems) to reduce releases of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including the carcinogen benzene, into the air.

This Order updates and replaces the outdated 1985 Approved Screening Devices Order, adding the Alcotest 6000 as a new legally approved roadside breath-testing device that police across Canada can use in impaired driving investigations.

These amendments fix testing rules for industrial boilers and heaters under the Multi-Sector Air Pollutants Regulations, giving operators more flexibility and time (until December 31, 2025) to properly test their equipment's nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions so they can be correctly classified — avoiding being automatically placed in the worst performance class and facing costly upgrade requirements.

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.

This regulation replaces the outdated Point Lepreau-specific nuclear exclusion rules with a broader New Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Regulation, applying provincial labour, occupational health and safety, and smoke-free workplace laws (instead of federal laws) to any nuclear power plant in New Brunswick, while also harmonizing the right to refuse dangerous work for facility fire brigade members across Canadian nuclear plants.

This regulation amends Canada's immigration rules to clarify that international transit passengers who remain in 'designated holding areas' (in addition to existing sterile transit areas) at Canadian airports are exempt from normal immigration examination requirements, and updates data collection rules for transit passengers.