Red Tape Challenge

Overview

Ontario wants to cut unnecessary red tape to save businesses time and money. Tell us how you think we can improve regulations to better protect consumers, employees and the environment.

The challenge is an integral part of Ontario’s Business Growth Initiative. Your feedback will help us modernize business regulations so that they are outcome-focused and evidence-based.

Consultation status

Consultation for the Tourism sector is now closed.

Read the comments we received

If you missed the deadline, you can still send us a private message.

What happens next

As each round of the challenge closes, we will publish a summary of participation.

We will review all the comments and ideas submitted and create a plan to improve or reduce existing regulations, while still protecting the public interest.

During this time, we will work with technical experts to analyze the ideas, prioritize the changes that will save businesses the most time and money, and research best practices in other locations.

Ministries will then put together action plans to address any issues associated with the acts or regulations they oversee. If there are recommendations in the feedback that could compromise public safety, we will propose alternative ways to address such issues.

These ministry plans will be presented to the Regulatory Modernization Committee, an advisory body with a role to challenge plans that fail to show significant improvements.

Once the Regulatory Modernization Committee has signed off, all the ministry plans will be combined into a government-wide plan to address red tape identified through one round of the Red Tape Challenge. This process will be repeated for each sector, resulting in seven separate, sector-specific plans committing the government to reducing red tape in Ontario.