Building Canada Act registry must now cover a fifth project outcome, and Schedule 2 gains a new regulatory entry

Plain-language summary · AI-assisted · not legal advice

Two practical changes appear in this amendment. First, the public project registry that the Minister must maintain now has to disclose how each national interest project is expected to meet a fifth category of outcomes (paragraph 5(6)(e)) — previously only outcomes (a) through (d) were required. Operators and proponents of projects listed under the Act should expect that additional disclosure in the registry. Second, a citation trail and effective date have been formally added to the consolidated text for the existing registry provisions and for the Schedule 2 list of regulations, with the Migratory Birds Regulations, 2022 entry now carrying full amendment attribution. No substantive new obligations appear beyond the expanded registry disclosure requirement.

Who this affects: proponents of national interest projects · federal project registry users · regulated industries subject to Schedule 2 regulations · environmental compliance teams