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This regulation lists designated terrorist entities by name and various aliases, enabling the Canadian government to freeze assets, criminalize material support, and prevent these groups from operating in or raising funds from Canada.

Deleting this regulation would remove the legal basis for preventing material support to terrorist organizations that pose a direct threat to Canadian lives and property. The listing mechanism is a necessary, targeted tool that achieves security objectives more effectively than alternatives: it creates clear legal boundaries, enables enforcement, and deters support through criminal sanctions. Without it, Canada would be less safe and more vulnerable to terrorist financing and recruitment.

The regulation precisely identifies a specific parcel of land (Lot 4, Block C, Northwest Territories) by referencing its survey plan and land titles registration details.

Deletion would create uncertainty in land ownership and transactions, undermining secure property rights and the efficient functioning of the land market, which are foundations of liberty and prosperity.

The document reviews Winter Skate (three populations) and Chinook Salmon (Okanagan) and recommends against listing under the Species at Risk Act due to significant economic costs, limited conservation benefits, and availability of alternative management measures like the Fisheries Act.

Listing would impose massive economic costs (millions in lost revenue and jobs) without addressing primary threats (natural mortality for skate, U.S. dams for salmon), violating property rights and economic liberty; existing Fisheries Act measures can effectively manage bycatch.

Bilateral treaty coordinating Canada's CPP/OAS with Morocco's social security. Allows totalization of insurance periods, applies single-country legislation to avoid double contributions, ensures cross-border benefit payments, and provides administrative cooperation.

Deletion would prevent Canadians from pooling Moroccan and Canadian insurance periods to qualify for CPP/OAS, confiscating contributions and restricting labor mobility. The treaty achieves irreversible coordination through mutual recognition, which unilateral laws cannot guarantee, while administrative costs are negligible relative to protecting acquired rights and preventing double coverage.

The regulation grants remission of GST/HST tax, interest, and penalties to VANOC for supplies made to the IOC/IPC for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games, with conditions including a timeframe (July 1, 2003 - Jan 1, 2012) and two-year application deadlines after the order or payment dates.

This time-limited tax break for a specific past event (2010 Olympics) is obsolete and represents harmful corporate welfare. Keeping it maintains regulatory clutter and a precedent for government picking winners via selective tax relief, distorting markets and undermining equal treatment. The regulation serves no current purpose and its retention signals acceptance of special-interest exemptions.

Repealed regulation - obsolete and removed from code

Already repealed in 2010, demonstrating regulatory obsolescence and unnecessary burden removal

Regulation establishes fees for Superintendent of Financial Institutions services under banking, insurance, and trust acts, including charges for copies of corporate documents and certificates. It defines terms and sets amounts via schedules.

Fee schedules provide transparent cost recovery; deletion would obscure pricing or subsidize commercial services via taxes. No harmful unintended consequences beyond standard user-pay pricing.

This regulation authorizes the Minister of Veterans Affairs to make ex gratia lump sum payments of $20,000 to individuals diagnosed with specific medical conditions who were exposed to herbicides at CFB Gagetown between 1966-1967, or to their primary caregivers if deceased.

This is a compensation program for victims of government negligence. Deleting it would deny justice to individuals harmed by military herbicide testing, leaving them without financial support for medical conditions caused by government actions. The program provides a specific remedy for documented harm that private markets cannot address.

Regulation operationalizes excise duty collection on beer through mandatory excise officer supervision (with exemption for approved controls), detailed production and material record-keeping, and regular duty returns.

Physical officer presence and granular reporting impose high compliance costs, especially on small breweries, creating barriers to entry and reducing competition. Modern tax administration can ensure revenue integrity through electronic monitoring and risk-based audits, making this intrusive, outdated supervision unnecessary and economically harmful.

The Brewery Regulations establish administrative requirements for breweries in Canada, including production day notification, refund procedures for destroyed beer, excise duty payment schedules, packaging labeling rules, and definitions of exports for duty-free purposes.

These regulations provide essential structure for accurate excise tax collection, prevent tax evasion through proper production tracking, ensure consumer protection via product identification, and facilitate legitimate duty-free exports. Deleting them would undermine tax revenue, increase fraud, and remove traceability needed for public health and consumer safety. The compliance burdens are minimal compared to the benefits of a functioning system.

This Order defines precise geographic boundaries for shipping safety control zones in Canada's Arctic waters. It establishes where additional shipping safety regulations will apply by delineated zones using latitude/longitude coordinates, referencing the exclusive economic zone boundary. The zones cover vast Arctic areas including parts of Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, and various sectors around Arctic islands. Schedule 1 lists zone descriptions and Schedule 2 shows maps (not included).

This regulation creates a bureaucratic patchwork of zones that will trigger additional costly requirements for vessels. From a Hayekian perspective, central planners cannotPossess the dispersed knowledge about actual ice conditions, shipping patterns, or local needs to optimally draw these lines. The zones distort maritime commerce, raise costs for northern communities dependent on supply ships, and substitute rigid geographic control for flexible, liability-based safety. True safety comes from insurance markets, tort law, and uniform navigation rules—not from arbitrary boundaries that impose one-size-fits-all restrictions on dynamic conditions.

Establishes user fees for specific regulatory services provided by the Superintendent to financial institutions, including application processing and certified copies of corporate documents.

Canadians would be worse off because deletion would either subsidize regulated entities through general taxation or force cost recovery through more distortive means. The fee structure achieves transparent, beneficiary-pays cost recovery in a simple, administratively efficient way that would be difficult to replicate without creating perverse incentives for over- or under-regulation.

These Regulations govern the handling of undeliverable and redirected mail by Canada Post, specifying procedures for redirection, return, opening, disposal, and international handling, including restrictions and mandatory processes.

Micromanages operations, infringes property rights via cash confiscation, and prevents market-driven efficiency; general property/contract law suffices.

Regulates motor vehicle use, parking, and traffic within Canada's national parks, establishing rules for highways, vehicle types, speeds, parking, and safety equipment while harmonizing with provincial laws.

Creates unnecessary bureaucratic complexity for park visitors, imposes federal restrictions where provincial laws already govern, and adds compliance costs without clear safety benefits beyond existing traffic regulations.

A document listing repealed/revoked regulations: sections 1-3 repealed by SOR/2010-213, section 4 revoked by SOR/90-701

Document contains no active regulatory provisions; it merely references previously repealed regulations and serves no current legal or administrative function