Federal regulations

This Order designates the Sarvarjuaq area of northern Baffin Bay (approximately 80,000 km²) as a Marine Protected Area under the Oceans Act, freezing the footprint of human activities in the area for up to five years while longer-term protection options, including an Inuit-led Protected and Conserved Area, are explored.

These amendments to the Accessible Canada Regulations require federally regulated organizations to make their websites, mobile apps, and downloadable documents accessible to people with disabilities by conforming to the CAN/ASC-EN 301 549 standard — Canada's national digital accessibility standard. They also require organizations to train relevant staff, publish accessibility statements, and assess the accessibility of digital products they purchase.

These regulations provide the detailed operational framework for the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants to fully govern Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants and Regulated International Student Immigration Advisors, including establishing a compensation fund for clients harmed by dishonest consultants, creating new oversight committees, and defining disciplinary powers.

This regulation creates a new administrative penalties and consequences (APC) regime allowing Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to directly fine and publicly name individuals who provide paid immigration or citizenship advice without authorization, or who counsel or commit misrepresentation on client applications.

These amendments overhaul Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations to simplify and strengthen passenger rights by replacing the old three-category disruption system with clearer rules on when airlines must pay compensation, provide meals and hotels, rebook passengers, and issue refunds — including new obligations to seat children under 14 beside their parents at no extra charge.

These regulations replace Canada's 1987 railway employee training rules, modernizing training and certification standards for workers in safety-critical positions by adding new job categories, requiring experienced employees to be paired with newer workers, and mandating crew resource management (CRM) training across all training types.

This regulation establishes a system of administrative monetary penalties for unauthorized or fraudulent immigration and citizenship consultants who provide representation or advice in connection with citizenship proceedings or applications. It sets out the rules for inspections, notices, penalties, and public disclosure of violations.

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.

This order repeals the old Railway Employee Qualification Standards Regulations (in place since 1987), replacing them with the new Railway Personnel Training and Qualifications Regulations, which will come into force at the same time.

These regulations require energy companies that charge tolls (pipeline and related infrastructure companies regulated by the Canadian Energy Regulator) to submit quarterly and monthly financial and traffic reports to the Regulator, replacing the previous Toll Information Regulations from 1979.

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 regulation establishes new application requirements for Canadian companies seeking licences or permits to export oil, gas, or electricity under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, replacing outdated National Energy Board rules with streamlined requirements focused only on the criteria the CER is legally required to consider.

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.

These regulations expand Canada's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing (AML/ATF) framework by bringing factoring companies, cheque-cashing businesses, and financing/leasing entities under federal oversight for the first time, while also requiring traders to declare goods at the border for money laundering purposes, enabling voluntary information sharing between financial institutions, and requiring regulated entities to report discrepancies in corporate beneficial ownership records.

This regulation establishes reporting, record-keeping, and penalty rules for the cross-border movement of goods under Canada's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing framework, requiring importers, exporters, producers, suppliers, and warehouse operators to declare certain goods and maintain detailed records for six years.

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.

This regulation caps non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees charged by Canadian banks at $10, down from the current $45–$48, and introduces new rules limiting when these fees can be charged, including a mandatory alert-and-grace-period system and annual public reporting requirements.

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.

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 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.