Federal regulations

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 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 suspends the application of federal coal-fired electricity emissions regulations in Saskatchewan for 2025 and 2026, based on a renewed equivalency agreement confirming that Saskatchewan's own provincial electricity regulations will achieve greenhouse gas emission outcomes equivalent to the federal rules.

This order suspends the application of federal methane emission regulations in Saskatchewan from 2025 to 2029, recognizing that Saskatchewan's own provincial regulations and directives will achieve equivalent greenhouse gas reductions for the upstream oil and gas sector.

These regulations require large Canadian municipal solid waste landfills to install or expand landfill gas recovery systems, monitor and control methane emissions, and meet strict surface methane concentration limits — with the goal of cutting landfill methane emissions 50% below 2019 levels by 2030.

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.

This Order declares that federal methane emission regulations for the upstream oil and gas sector do not apply in British Columbia, renewing a previous equivalency arrangement by recognizing that BC's own provincial regulations achieve equivalent or better greenhouse gas reduction outcomes.

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.

These amendments strengthen oversight of Canada's International Student Program by requiring post-secondary designated learning institutions (DLIs) to verify letters of acceptance and submit enrollment compliance reports, allowing IRCC to suspend non-compliant schools from receiving new international students, requiring students to apply for a new study permit before switching schools, and increasing the off-campus work limit from 20 to 24 hours per week.

This regulation expands the definition of 'under-served rural or remote community' for the Canada Student Loan forgiveness benefit, so that family physicians, family medicine residents, nurses, and nurse practitioners who work in any Statistics Canada-defined rural area or any population centre of 30,000 or fewer people can have up to $60,000 (doctors) or $30,000 (nurses) in federal student loans forgiven over five years.

Amendment 18 updates Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 by adding or tightening energy efficiency and testing standards for a wide range of home, commercial, and industrial products — including air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, lighting, pool pumps, faucets, showerheads, air compressors, and line voltage thermostats — primarily to align with U.S. standards and, in some cases, exceed them to support Canada's net-zero by 2050 goals.

This regulation updates Canada's marine oil spill preparedness rules by consolidating two sets of regulations into one, replacing the outdated 1995 Response Organizations Regulations with modernized requirements folded into the Environmental Response Regulations, while also fixing gaps in existing rules for oil handling facilities.

This regulation consolidates Canada's three separate vessel traffic reporting rules (VTSZR, ECAREG, and NORDREG) into a single, modernized set of requirements that all vessels of 300 gross tonnes or more must follow when entering, leaving, or travelling within Canadian coastal and northern waters. It standardizes reporting formats to match international standards, requires 24-hour advance notice nationwide (including the Arctic), and legally incorporates the Canadian Coast Guard's Radio Aids to Marine Navigation document so reporting details can be updated quickly without going through a full regulatory amendment.

The Controlled Substances Regulations (CSR) consolidate five existing sets of regulations and six class exemptions into a single, unified framework governing legitimate activities with all categories of controlled substances — narcotics, controlled drugs, targeted substances, and restricted drugs — conducted by licensed dealers, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, and individuals.

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 updates the Cannabis Regulations to align definitions, procedures, and terminology with the Controlled Substances Regulations, covering areas like pharmacist handling of cannabis drugs, destruction procedures, travel allowances, and record-keeping requirements.

These regulations implement the details of Canada's new patent term extension system under CUSMA, allowing patent holders to apply for additional patent protection time when CIPO took unreasonably long to grant their patent, and updating related pharmaceutical regulations to account for these extended patent expiry dates.

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 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.