Adapting to a Hotter Ontario Act, 2026

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SCHEDULE 1 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT The Schedule amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to add a new Part IV.1. New Part IV.1 requires the Minister to develop and implement a Worker Heat Protection Standard and sets out requirements for that standard. Every employer is required to ensure there is heat stress training for employees. All employees shall receive compensation at the regular rate at which the employee is employed for any period required under the Worker Heat Protection Standard, such as periods for rest, breaks, medical removal protection and training. For the first five years after the Worker Heat Protection Standard is implemented, the Minister shall annually present a report to the Legislature detailing illness and mortality figures relating to heat stress and the Ministry’s enforcement activities, with respect to the Worker Heat Protection Standard. SCHEDULE 2 ONTARIO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE ACT, 2026 The Schedule enacts the Ontario Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Act, 2026 . The Act provides that the Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks or such other member of the Executive Council as may be assigned the administration of this Act under the Executive Council Act shall develop and publish a strategic action plan that aims to ensure that Ontario citizens, communities, infrastructure and natural environment are protected from the risks and impacts of climate change. The Act also requires the Minister to establish an arm’s length Ontario Climate Adaptation Fund to support the implementation of adaptation and resilience activities included in the strategic action plan. The Minister is also required to establish the Ontario Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Resource Centre. The Lieutenant Governor in Council is required to establish a Whole-of-Government Climate Adaptation Co-ordination Secretariat that, among other things, will co-ordinate and assist with the implementation of science-aligned climate adaptation plans for all government ministries and agencies, including formulating and implementing policy, legislation and regulations. SCHEDULE 3 PROTECTING ONTARIO FROM URBAN WILDFIRES ACT, 2026 The Schedule enacts the Protecting Ontario from Urban Wildfires Act, 2026 . The Act provides that the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall, no later than 90 days after the day the Act comes into force, establish an Urban Wildfires Advisory Committee. The Committee shall assess the growing risk of urban wildfires, both in terms of scale and expected timelines for when increased levels of risk will be reached. The Committee shall also develop recommendations for preventing, suppressing and recovering from urban wildfires and protecting the population from urban wildfires. Within one year of being established, the Committee shall report its assessment and recommendations to the Legislative Assembly. Based on the Committee’s assessment and recommendations, the Minister shall, along with other members of the Executive Council assigned by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, develop plans, and any legislation necessary for implementing those plans, related to protecting Ontario from urban wildfires and shall develop protocols for co-operation between urban and forest wildfire management and suppression forces.

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