Federal regulations

This Order suspends the application of federal methane regulations in Alberta for 2025–2030, recognizing that Alberta's own provincial methane rules achieve equivalent or better emission reductions for the upstream oil and gas sector, thereby eliminating duplicate regulatory requirements for Alberta operators.

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.

This regulation restructures the Prairie National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan by removing 19 of its 26 land units that have low conservation value, and designating the remaining 7 units as five new, separately named National Wildlife Areas focused on high-value habitats.

This regulation updates cross-references and definitions across several federal regulations (covering drug labelling, dealer licences, and precursor controls) to align them with the new Controlled Substances Regulations, replacing outdated references to predecessor regulations.

This regulation strengthens Canada's anti-money laundering framework by requiring domestic money services businesses (MSBs) — such as currency exchangers, money transfer companies, and virtual currency dealers — to submit criminal record checks of their executives, directors, major shareholders, and agents to FINTRAC when registering or re-registering every two years.

This Order groups all federal Cabinet ministers' offices together under a single pay equity plan, ensuring consistent pay equity outcomes for ministerial staff across all ministers' offices, including those with fewer than 10 employees.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 Order updates Canada's official list of species at risk by removing, reclassifying, or renaming nine wildlife species — including several Red Knot shorebird populations, the Aweme Borer moth, the Cobblestone Tiger Beetle, the Lakeside Daisy, and the Seaside Centipede Lichen — to reflect updated scientific assessments by COSEWIC.

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

This regulation requires publicly traded (distributing) trust and loan companies to annually disclose diversity information about their boards of directors and senior management, covering women, Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis reported separately), persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities, using a 'comply or explain' model.

This regulation increases Canada Post's postage rates by approximately 25% across domestic letter mail, U.S. and international letter-post, and Registered Mail, effective January 13, 2025, to help offset rising delivery costs and mounting financial losses.

This regulation updates workplace noise exposure rules for federally regulated employers — covering sectors like transportation, banking, telecoms, postal services, and the federal public service — by lowering the maximum allowable noise limit to 85 dBA, requiring employers to set up formal hearing loss prevention programs, and mandating annual hearing tests for workers exposed to hazardous noise levels.

This regulation removes the ban on manufacturing, importing, and selling six categories of single-use plastics (checkout bags, cutlery, certain foodservice ware, ring carriers, stir sticks, and straws) specifically for the purpose of export, while keeping all existing domestic market prohibitions in place.

This regulation adds seven new categories of sensitive dual-use technologies to Canada's Export Control List, requiring export permits for quantum computing components, advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, metal 3D printers, and high-temperature coating technology before they can be shipped to any country except the United States.

These amendments eliminate the controlled migratory bird hunt program and entrance fees at the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area (near Québec City), since biological monitoring shows the marsh the hunt was designed to protect is now healthy, and free access aligns the area with all other National Wildlife Areas across Canada.