As the new year rolls in, so does a bunch of new rules to follow. These some new laws will came into effect January 1st 2026, which will effect the workforce, health care, and much more. Here’s a quick breakdown of every new law coming into place.
Jobs
- Companies with more than 25 employees must advertise complete compensation packages and disclose the use of AI screening when publicly advertising position.
- Employers must not post a salary range exceeding a $50,000 gap of actual pay, unless the job pays over $200,000 where the top end of range is $200,000.
- Employers must contact candidates with 45 days of interview whether they are successful or not.
- For Ontario specifically, changes to its “as of right” framework will allow professionals from other jurisdictions to start working in the province with 10 days, for up to six months while completing their full registration and a regulator confirms their credentials.
Employers using AI to screen applications, while complaining about applicants using AI to create a resume is an unfathomable paradox that should be completely illegal. But what is even worse, is the that employers were advertising jobs with a $50,000 pay gap. Imagine applying for a $60,000 job, go through the interview process, you find out its only $40,000. That is theft of time. Employers needing the contact any potential applicants within 45 of an interview is very useful. Countless number of young Canadians apply for hundreds of jobs a while, interview after interview, and still hear nothing back. Implementing this will definitely ease some stress and anxiety Canadians feel when job hunting.
Health Care
- The “as of right” rule will also allow an additional 16 out-of-province health professionals .
- As an effort to attract foreign doctors, an updated list has been amended to its immigration act for eligible licence classes for self-employed physicians.
- 29 test have been added to the list of test midwives can order.
This might seems like a tactic they are trying to use to try and mitigate the crisis the Canadian health care system is facing. Shortage on doctors, endless wait times resulting in death, and a whole bunch of red tape. But instead of wisely using our tax dollars to expand hospitals and train our young Canadian to become come doctors, what does this government do? Import foreign doctors with no ties to Canada or its values and send more money to Ukraine.
Impaired driving laws
- Lifetime driver’s licence ban for anyone convicted of impaired driving causing death and mandatory remedial education for first-time alcohol or drug-related offences.
- Lifetime suspension for a third conviction of vehicle theft.
Driving is a right, not a privilege. The fact that you could still have a licence after killing someone after you were drinking and driving shows the level of intelligence this government has present these past ten years. Especially after stealing a vehicle, even just one time, should be automatic ban. Again, driving is a privilege, not a right.
Families
- Ontario will no longer consider Canadian Disability Benefit payments as income for determining eligibility for child care fee subsidies.
What needs to be routed out of the welfare system is bloat and fraud. There are possibly thousands of able bodies adults, abusing this system, who are fully capable of work but choose not to. Any family that is receiving numerous amounts of benefits without any plan of helping themselves should be looked into.
Home safety
- Every house, apartment, and condo must have a carbon monoxide alarm installed on every storey of the home, including non sleeping areas.
Any knowledgable person would consider this common sense. To any politician, this is progress. When it comes to home invasions, ‘hand over your keys, they only want your car’, and you better not fight back, or well charge you with murder. Whenever it comes to home safety, they never want to address the real issue. Instead put more red tape around home inspections than care for the actual safety of the occupants.
Recycling
- New list of recyclable items include; hot and cold beverage cups, black plastic containers, ice cream tubs, toothpaste, deodorant and more.
Basically, the same stuff thats always gets thrown recycling or landfill. But hey, Net Zero by 2035.
Alcohol
- Restrictions removed on displaying energy drinks next to alcohol, dedicated alcohol sales on delivery websites.
- Set minimum retail price for five-litre wine containers in grocery and variety store.
All in all, a simple concept about what the next three years will look like. They have provided no laws about the LMIA corruption, committed no funding into expanding our crippled health care system, nothing about murders and pedophiles roaming our streets. They could care less about how you are doing, and more about you house being up to regulation. They care more about bring foreign workers into Canada. They do not care about fixing the system, they care more about controlling it. But at least you can now get Jagger bombs, and throw more stuff away. This government is a joke.
