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The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in Canada, as well as events that are scheduled or predicted to take place during the year.
January 1 – The Canadian Grocery Code of Conduct enters into effect.[4][5]
January 4 – The Canada Revenue Agency says it is owed more than $10 billion CAD in COVID-19 benefits and had disbursed $83.5 billion in COVID benefits to Canadians as of November 30, 2025, and had been repaid more than $4 billion.[6][7][8]
January 12–17 – Carney travels to China to meet with president Xi Jinping, premier Li Qiang and other government leaders for the first visit to China by a sitting Prime Minister since 2017.[23][24]
January 13 – Statistics Canada announces 850 job cuts, with over 100 to happen in the following days.[25]
A Canadian citizen dies in Iran amid protests according to Global Affairs.[27]
Former Ubisoft Halifax workers reveal the company had since 2017 received over 977$ million CAD in tax breaks from the NS government,[28] on the same day workers filed a complaint and the Government of Nova Scotia says it is "deeply concerned".[29]
January 16 – Canada reaches a trade deal with China that eliminates or lowers Chinese tariffs on canola and other products, with Canada allowing the import of a limited quantity of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country.[30][31][32]
January 19–21 – Carney attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, giving a speech and meeting with government and business leaders.[34]
January 24 – U.S. President Donald Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada over the country’s potential deal with China.[37]
January 26 – Carney announces a suite of affordability measures, including a revamp to the GST/HST credit by renaming it the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, boosting it by 25 per cent for a period of five years, and providing an additional one-time top-up payment equivalent to 50 per cent of the 2025-26 total amount. Additionally announced were measures targeting Canada's food security, such as a $500 million allotment from the "Strategic Response Fund" to businesses along with various other measures.[38]
Canada reaches an agreement with India to expand the export of oil and gas to the country.[40]
January 28
South Korea and Canada sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding the auto sector, intended to bring the manufacturing of South Korean vehicles to Canada as well as to encourage South Korean investment in the country.[41]
Carney announces a new strategy for Canada's automotive sector, eliminating the Electric Vehicle Availability Standards (EVAS) system implemented under the previous government led by former Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and re-introducing sale rebates for electric vehicles (EVs) priced under $50,000 that are sold in Canada, alongside $3 billion being allocated from the Strategic Response Fund to help the sector withstand the various impacts suffered as a result of the tariffs enacted in the second Trump administration.[49][50]
Authorities announce the arrest of eight serving and retired members of the Toronto Police Service as part of an organized crime investigation involving bribery, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking.[51]
February 9 – Air Canada suspends flights to Cuba over a shortage of jet fuel.[54]
February 10
Canada approves the first oral self test for HIV.[55][56]
Trump threatens the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, and remarks that the US should be "fully compensated for everything" it has given to its northern neighbour, and that Ottawa "treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve".[57]
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