According to Chip C :

My understanding is that Canada requires GFCI protection only within
1m of a sink, and that all other kitchen outlets can be non-GFCI,
either the traditional splits (in 15 or 20A) or 20A t-slot non-
splits...that's based on the latest P.S.Knight book. Am I reading that
wrong?

I'd have to double check. But considering the speed in which
the US NEC went from a similar rule to "all counter outlets", I
wouldn't expect it to stay that way long here.
--
Chris Lewis,

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