Federal regulations

This proclamation establishes the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency (PRA), a national body empowered to collect levies from hemp producers and importers to fund research and marketing activities that support the growth and competitiveness of Canada's industrial hemp sector.

This regulation updates the Saskatchewan Uranium Mines and Mills Exclusion Regulations to reference current Saskatchewan provincial legislation, replacing outdated references to superseded provincial acts and regulations that govern workplace health, safety, and other standards at uranium mines and mills.

These regulations create solvency reserve accounts (SRAs) for federally regulated defined benefit pension plans, allowing employers to set aside contributions they can later withdraw under certain conditions, and reduce the required solvency funding ratio for federally regulated multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs) that are not negotiated contribution plans from 100% to 85%.

This regulation requires the federal pension regulator (OSFI) to publicly publish standardized investment information for large federally regulated private pension plans with $500 million or more in assets, broken down by asset class and geographic location.

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products like air cleaners, pool heaters, and computer room air conditioners), while also removing roughly 300 outdated standards to reduce regulatory complexity and harmonize requirements with U.S. standards.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 extend mandatory International Polar Code navigation safety and voyage planning requirements to fishing vessels 24 metres or longer, pleasure craft of 300 gross tonnage or more not engaged in trade, and smaller cargo ships between 300 and 500 gross tonnage operating in Canadian Arctic waters, aligning Canada's domestic rules with 2023 amendments to the international SOLAS Convention.

These regulations require anyone who possesses or exports elvers (juvenile American eels less than 10 cm long) in Canada to hold a licence, with limited exceptions, and impose traceability, record-keeping, labelling, and container-sealing requirements throughout the post-harvest supply chain to crack down on the widespread illegal harvesting and export of this highly valuable species.

These amendments update the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to explicitly cover all International Experience Canada (IEC) Program partners and add the ability for immigration officers to limit how long a foreign youth worker can work for any single employer on a Working Holiday open work permit.

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.

The Canada Disability Benefit Regulations establish a new federal income-tested benefit of up to $2,400 per year ($200/month) for working-age Canadians (18–64) with severe and prolonged disabilities, as determined by Disability Tax Credit eligibility, with payments beginning July 2025.

This regulation formalizes and expands a free-flow transit process for international travellers connecting through Canadian airports, eliminating the requirement for those passengers to interact with CBSA officers or kiosks as long as they remain in a designated transit area. It also requires airlines to provide additional passenger data identifying whether travellers are entering Canada or transiting through to another international destination.

This order repeals the existing supplementary rules that governed the sale of natural health products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, with the repeal taking effect at the same time as the related Regulations Amending the Precursor Control Regulations (Increased Regulatory Oversight) come into force.

This regulation excludes Ontario nuclear power plants from federal labour laws (Canada Labour Code and Non-smokers' Health Act) and instead applies Ontario's provincial labour legislation — covering industrial relations, occupational health and safety, labour standards, and smoke-free workplaces — to workers employed at those facilities.

These amendments tighten Canada's rules around chemical precursors used to make illegal drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine, requiring businesses that handle these chemicals to report suspicious transactions to Health Canada within 72 hours, screen employees for drug-related criminal records, and restricting where cold/decongestant products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine can be sold. The changes also require importers of pill press component parts (punches, moulds, and dies) to register those parts with Health Canada before bringing them into Canada.

This by-law amendment expands the list of counterparties that are exempt from contractual stay provisions in eligible financial contracts, adding foreign government departments and agencies, and multilateral development banks (like the World Bank) to the exemption list, while also extending the compliance deadline to October 1, 2028.

This regulation amends Payments Canada's compliance by-law to introduce a faster, streamlined investigation process for simple or uncontested rule violations, and increases the maximum penalty per contravention from $250,000 to $1,000,000 for the first time since 1998.

This regulation extends the temporary sulphur compliance unit (SCU) trading system for Canadian gasoline refiners and importers from 2026 to 2030, allowing them to generate, trade, and bank credits to help meet the 10 parts per million sulphur limit in gasoline rather than having to comply with that limit directly at all times.

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.

These regulations update a series of existing federal regulations across the Food and Drugs Act, Patent Act, Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, and Cannabis Act to align them with a new standalone Clinical Trials Regulations framework, removing outdated clinical trial provisions and cross-referencing the new rules.

This regulation updates Canada's Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations by replacing outdated vehicle anti-theft immobilization system standards with newer versions that address modern electronic theft tools, aligning Canadian requirements with the latest international standards.