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Regulation establishes conditions for electronic pay statements to satisfy the 'in writing' requirement under the Canada Labour Code. Requires employee-only access via electronic source, readability/printability for 3 years, and employer-provided private computer/printer access.

Deleting would create legal uncertainty about validity of electronic pay records, potentially forcing employers back to costly paper systems. The rule efficiently modernizes compliance while preserving employee access rights and record retention requirements through clear, objective standards.

Regulation governing the application of Bank Act provisions to aircraft objects, providing a transition period for existing registrations and eventually phasing out certain Bank Act provisions for aircraft objects once the Aircraft Protocol comes into force in Canada.

Creates unnecessary regulatory complexity by maintaining temporary Bank Act provisions for aircraft objects during a transition period. The regulation adds bureaucratic overhead without clear benefit to Canadians, as aircraft financing can be handled through existing commercial mechanisms without special statutory provisions.

Retroactive remission of Canadian Coast Guard marine navigation fees for 2008-2010 for carriers operating across 60° North latitude.

One-time special exemption creates arbitrary market distortion; past remission already executed with no ongoing purpose.

Regulation authorizes $24,000 ex gratia payments to veterans and civilian science/technology workers who participated in allied nuclear weapons tests (1946-1963) or Chalk River reactor cleanup (1952-1953, 1958), or their eligible successors, with application deadline December 31, 2009 and payment deadline December 31, 2010; payments are one-time and do not constitute Crown liability admission.

Obsolete; the closed program's deadlines have long expired, yet retaining it adds to regulatory clutter, creates administrative burden, and codifies a special-interest redistribution inconsistent with limited-government principles.

Remission is granted for overpaid Canada Education Savings grants paid between Jan 1, 1998 and June 30, 2005, under specific conditions: beneficiary was designated in a registered education savings plan, grant was paid during that period, not repaid, and minimum contributions were not made to the plan.

This is a narrow, retrospective remission for historical overpayments dating back 20+ years. It creates administrative burden and legal complexity to process stale claims. Overpayment recoveries should be handled through routine administrative mechanisms with appropriate fairness considerations, not special legislative carve-outs. The regulation invites disparate treatment and uncertainty, violating the principle that laws should be general and prospective.

One-time debt remission of $480,500 to the Maritime Harbours Society under the Port Divestiture Program, conditional on sale of Digby Fisherman's Wharf to the Digby Harbour Port Association.

Targeted debt forgiveness creates unequal treatment, sets a precedent for selective bailouts, undermines contract sanctity, and distorts market signals; the divestiture goal could be achieved through standard commercial terms without retroactive remission, avoiding moral hazard and fiscal favoritism.

Bilateral treaty coordinating Canada-Japan social security systems to prevent double contributions, totalize coverage periods for eligibility, and enable benefit portability for cross-border workers and families.

Deletion would harm Canadians working in Japan via double taxation on the same earnings and loss of pension portability, reducing liberty and opportunity. Coordination requires binding reciprocity between sovereign systems—impossible to achieve through decentralized means given legal and administrative barriers.

Retroactive remission of fees paid by foreign marine carriers (1997-2005) under the Oceans Act, refunding monies collected for ocean services.

Creates precedent for retroactive political windfalls, moral hazard, and distracts from full repeal of the underlying fee authority that distorts trade. Unseen cost: erosion of neutral rule of law and incentivizes rent-seeking.

Regulation governing the grant of Memorial Crosses to families of deceased military members, specifying eligibility criteria, designation processes, and administrative responsibilities between National Defence and Veterans Affairs

This regulation honors military sacrifice through a meaningful symbol of remembrance. Deleting it would eliminate a formal recognition system that provides comfort to grieving families and maintains national tradition of honoring fallen service members.

This regulation lists designated terrorist entities and their aliases, likely for the purpose of enabling legal restrictions on providing material support, financial services, or other forms of assistance to these organizations under Canadian anti-terrorism legislation.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because it prevents material support for organizations that use violence to achieve political goals, directly protecting lives, liberty, and property from terrorist threats. The regulation achieves its purpose with minimal burden on ordinary citizens, as it only restricts association with groups that themselves reject peaceful means and target civilians. Removing it would create a safe haven for terrorist financing and recruitment, increasing security risks.

This Order temporarily withdraws specific territorial lands in the Northwest Territories from disposal to facilitate creation of the expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve. It covers approximately 29,167 km² across two parcels, with key exemptions preserving pre-existing mineral claims, exploration/production licenses, quarrying rights, and surface leases.

While this restricts disposal of federal Crown lands, it's narrowly targeted, time-bound (ending 2010), and includes extensive grandfathering of existing property rights. The national park designation preserves natural heritage and tourism potential—assets that, once lost to development, cannot be recovered. Deletion would permit irreversible development in ecologically sensitive wilderness before conservation planning completes. The exemptions ensure existing legitimate investments are honored, minimizing economic disruption while achieving preservation goals that private conservation could not easily replicate at this scale.

No substantive regulation content; only repealed sections from SI/2008-101, s. 5 are listed.

These sections have already been repealed, indicating prior recognition of their flaws or obsolescence. Maintaining repealed regulations in the code creates confusion and legal uncertainty with no benefit.

Sections 1-5 of a regulation, all marked as repealed by Statutory Instrument SI/2008-102, section 5. No substantive content remains; this represents already-repealed provisions.

Obsolescence: these sections are already repealed and have no legal effect. Keeping repealed provisions in regulatory databases creates confusion, increases compliance burden through unnecessary searches, and undermines legal certainty. SI/2008-102's repeal indicates prior legislative judgment that these provisions were flawed or unnecessary; complete removal from active codification eliminates the unseen cost of legal uncertainty.

This regulation document consists of 5 sections that have all been repealed by SI/2008-103, section 5. The original content is no longer in force.

The regulation is entirely repealed and obsolete. It has no legal effect and should be formally deleted to reduce regulatory clutter. Any original flaws are moot as the law has been superseded.

This regulation has been repealed and is no longer in effect as of SI/2008-148, section 14.

Repealed regulations serve no current purpose and should be removed from active consideration. The repeal indicates they were deemed unnecessary or outdated, and maintaining obsolete regulations creates unnecessary regulatory burden.