Federal regulations

These regulations create Canada's open banking framework, allowing individuals and businesses to securely share their financial data with accredited third-party providers (such as fintech apps) through standardized APIs, replacing the current risky practice of screen scraping where Canadians hand over their banking passwords to access such services.

This regulation creates a temporary four-year exemption allowing livestock producers and provincially licensed slaughter establishments to trade raw red meat across provincial borders without a federal SFC licence, when there is a proven shortage of nearby slaughter capacity. It also fixes unnecessary inspection fee charges for continuous meat processing activities like freezing, and clears up ambiguity about when federal food safety rules apply to products made under an SFC licence.

This regulation repeals Canada's Electric Vehicle Availability Standard (EVAS), which had required automakers to ensure that 20% of new light-duty vehicles offered for sale in 2026 be zero-emission vehicles, rising to 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. The repeal removes all ZEV sales quota obligations from manufacturers and importers, replacing them with a commitment to develop new technology-neutral greenhouse gas emission standards aimed at achieving 75% EV sales by 2035 and 90% by 2040.

These amendments update two federal measurement regulations: they expand the allowable test volume range for positive displacement liquid meters (from 900L up to 1,500L) to close a gap that was causing inspection problems, and they modernize both the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations and Weights and Measures Regulations by replacing outdated paper-based and location-based communication requirements with technology-neutral language.

This regulation removes the fixed 72-hour maximum soak time rules for unattended fishing gear from three Atlantic fishery regulations, replacing them with flexible, fishery-specific soak time limits set through individual fishing licence conditions managed by DFO.

These regulations require Canadian banks to get your explicit permission before turning on wire transfers, global money transfers, and Interac e-Transfers on your personal deposit account, let you turn those features off entirely, and report detailed fraud data annually to the federal government — all aimed at reducing the estimated $9+ billion in annual fraud losses Canadians actually suffer.

This regulation updates the rules that CDIC member institutions (banks and other deposit-taking institutions) must follow when informing depositors about deposit insurance coverage, including new staff training requirements, updated signage rules, video advertising disclosure requirements, and clearer trade name disclosures.

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.

These regulations remove outdated rules about government-approved postage rates from several Canada Post regulations, following a Budget 2025 law change that eliminated the requirement for Cabinet approval of postage rate changes. Stamp rates themselves are not changing.

These regulations require certain international air carriers operating to and from Canada to create, implement, and maintain a written Security Program for Air Carriers (SPAC), bringing Canada into alignment with ICAO international aviation security standards that it has been out of compliance with since a 2016 audit finding.

This regulation increases the mandatory nuclear liability insurance limits that nuclear facility operators in Canada must carry, adjusts limits for lower-risk installations to account for inflation, and creates a new liability limit category for small modular reactors (SMRs) that scales with their thermal power output.

This regulation updates personal protective equipment (PPE) and fall protection requirements across five federal occupational health and safety regulations, harmonizing standards, modernizing terminology, and introducing new requirements such as mandatory proper PPE fit for all body types and fall-protection plans for marine and oil and gas employers.

This regulation updates the federal pension rules in two main ways: it lets retirees who keep their money in a defined contribution plan and draw variable benefits unlock up to 50% of those funds (the same option already available to those who move funds to a locked-in savings vehicle), and it sets the rules that defined benefit plan administrators must follow when buying 'buy-out' life annuities to fully transfer their pension obligations to a regulated life insurance company.

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 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.

This regulation updates Canada's aircraft registration rules by clarifying and modernizing about 70 provisions in the Canadian Aviation Regulations (Part II), and raises aircraft registration service fees for the first time since 1996 to shift more of the program's costs from taxpayers onto aircraft owners and operators who benefit directly from the services.

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.

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 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.

These regulations implement Canada's new foreign influence transparency system by requiring anyone who enters into an arrangement with a foreign government, state-linked entity, or their proxies to register that arrangement in a public registry overseen by an independent Commissioner. The rules set out exactly what information must be disclosed, how often it must be updated, what gets published publicly, and the penalties for failing to comply.