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Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has proposed amendments to remove the mandatory January 31, 2027 deadline requiring businesses to transition from Environmental Compliance Approvals to the Environmental Activity and Sector Registry for air emissions. The proposed changes would shift to a change-based transition requirement, allowing companies to continue operating under existing ECAs unless operational modifications trigger the need for transition.

The Canada Border Services Agency has clarified that bonded warehouses cannot be used to defer tariff rate quota obligations or facilitate after-the-fact import permits for steel imports. Steel importers must obtain shipment-specific permits upfront and stay within daily-published quotas to avoid substantial 50% surtaxes, regardless of whether goods are placed in customs bonded warehouses.

The Canadian Securities Administrators have introduced final amendments allowing non-investment fund reporting issuers to adopt an alternative "access equals delivery" model for distributing annual financial statements, interim financial reports, and related MD&A. These regulatory changes, which took effect in September 2026, provide issuers with a new option to satisfy their continuous disclosure delivery requirements under National Instrument 51-102 and related securities regulations.