School boards must now collect police record checks for trustees and key committee members

School boards are now required to collect police record checks for two new groups: board trustees and members of five specific committees — audit committees, parent involvement committees, school councils, special edu…

Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations have been fully repealed

The Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations, which set out parking fees at federally operated airports such as Penticton, Port Hardy, Sandspit, Sept-Îles, and Wabush, have been repealed in their entirety. All subs…

Steel Derivative Goods Surtax extended, Canadian-origin goods exempted, and auto/aerospace phase-out deadline pushed to 2027

Several changes have been made to the Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Order, which imposes a 25% surtax on imported steel derivative goods. A new interpretation clause clarifies that country of origin is determined unde…

Canada's US surtax remission order expanded to cover a new surtax order and hundreds of additional goods, with import deadlines extended

The United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) has been significantly expanded. A new surtax order — the United States Surtax Order (2026) — has been added to all major remission categories, meaning importers who pay…

Surtax on US steel and aluminum split into two tiers: 25% for some goods, 50% for most

Canada's surtax on steel and aluminum imported from the United States has been restructured into two rates. A smaller group of steel and aluminum goods (mainly finished or consumer-facing items such as cookware, radia…

Canada imposes new surtaxes of 15%, 25%, or 50% on a wide range of U.S.-origin goods

A new federal order imposes surtaxes on hundreds of categories of goods that originate in the United States, calculated as a percentage of their customs value for duty. Depending on which tariff schedule a product fal…