Federal regulations

This regulation replaces the outdated Point Lepreau-specific nuclear exclusion rules with a broader New Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Regulation, applying provincial labour, occupational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 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.

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Uranium Mines and Mills Exclusion Regulations to reference current Saskatchewan provincial legislation, replacing outdated references to superseded provincial acts and regulations that govern workplace health, safety, and other standards at uranium mines and mills.

These regulations replace the outdated 1981 Vancouver International Airport Zoning Regulations to protect airspace around YVR by imposing height limits on buildings and structures in surrounding municipalities, prohibiting land uses that attract wildlife near flight paths, and banning activities that interfere with aircraft communication signals — all to preserve the airport's ability to add a future runway within the next 30+ years.

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.

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.

These regulations establish the detailed rules that offshore renewable energy (ORE) project operators must follow to obtain and maintain authorizations from the Canada Energy Regulator, covering safety, security, and environmental protection requirements across all project phases — from initial site assessment through construction, operations, and eventual decommissioning.

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.

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 applies the Pay Equity Act to Ministers' Offices by grouping them together and treating them as a single employer for the purpose of creating and maintaining a pay equity plan, with special rules for transitions when a new Prime Minister or minister is appointed.

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.

This regulation exempts food businesses in Alberta and Saskatchewan from federal interprovincial trade requirements when selling or moving food within the city of Lloydminster, treating the border-straddling city as if it were located entirely within one province.

This regulation increases Canada Post's regulated postage rates for domestic letters, US-bound mail, and international letter-post items, as well as the domestic registered mail fee, effective May 6, 2024, to help offset inflation-driven operating cost increases.

These regulations lower the criminal interest rate for most loans in Canada to 35% APR, exempt certain commercial loans and pawn loans from the new lower rate, and set a national cap of $14 per $100 borrowed for payday loans along with a maximum $20 dishonoured cheque fee.

These regulations ban the use and carriage of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) as fuel by vessels operating in Arctic and Antarctic waters, bringing Canadian domestic law into line with international MARPOL treaty obligations that have been in force globally since 2011 (Antarctic) and 2024 (Arctic). They also add administrative monetary penalties for non-compliance.

These amendments update Canada's PCB Regulations to grant deferrals and new exemptions allowing certain organizations — nuclear facilities, coal-fired power plants closing by 2029, the Department of National Defence, and museums — to continue using or storing PCB-containing equipment beyond existing deadlines, while also clarifying that diluting PCB oil to lower its concentration to avoid disposal requirements is prohibited.