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The Import Allocation Regulations establish a permit system controlling imports of certain goods (likely agricultural products) through an allocation mechanism. Applicants must prove past usage and involvement in the Canadian agro-industrial sector. The Minister has discretion to issue allocations and approve transfers, considering factors like compliance history, impact on domestic sector, and number of transfers.

This regulation creates a protectionist import quota system that artificially restricts trade, harms consumers through higher prices and reduced choice, and shields inefficient domestic producers from competition. The allocation mechanism based on past usage favors incumbents over new entrants, while Ministerial discretion creates arbitrary barriers. The unseen costs include deadweight loss from suppressed trade, reduced economic efficiency, and corruption risks in allocation decisions. Canadians would be better off with free trade allowing competition to drive down prices and increase quality.

Establishes height restrictions on buildings/structures within 4,000m of Tuktoyaktuk Airport to protect air navigation safety by prohibiting construction that exceeds imaginary approach, outer, and transitional surfaces defined in a schedule.

Deleting it would allow obstructions that could cause fatal aircraft crashes. The regulation achieves safety efficiently by preventing hazards before construction—reactive liability is inadequate for catastrophic risks. The precise spatial height limits based on aviation engineering cannot be replicated by private ordering among scattered landowners.

Airport zoning regulation establishes height restrictions on land within 4km radius of Mayo Airport to prevent obstacles that could interfere with aircraft takeoff/landing. It defines imaginary protective surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and prohibits construction exceeding those elevations.

Aviation safety is a legitimate government function where individual property rights must yield to prevent catastrophic harm. The regulation addresses a clear externality - one landowner's structure could cause multiple deaths. The alternative (negotiating easements with hundreds of owners) has prohibitive transaction costs, making regulation the only feasible solution. The restrictions are narrowly tailored to actual flight paths rather than arbitrary limits.

Aviation safety regulation establishing height restrictions and zoning around Burwash Airport in Yukon to prevent obstructions to aircraft approach paths and ensure safe airport operations.

Aviation safety regulations are essential for preventing catastrophic accidents. Height restrictions protect aircraft approach paths, which cannot be left to market forces without risking fatal collisions. The costs of a single aviation accident far exceed the regulatory compliance costs, and private alternatives would still require similar safety standards to obtain insurance and maintain operations.

This regulation was repealed in 2006 under SOR/2006-321, section 5, indicating it was deemed obsolete or unnecessary by the government at that time.

The regulation has already been repealed, demonstrating it was unnecessary and obsolete. Keeping repealed regulations creates regulatory clutter without providing any benefits to Canadians.

Entire regulation has been repealed by SOR/2006-319, section 5. No legal effect.

Already repealed; no longer has any legal force or effect in Canada.

This Order directs the CRTC to license and regulate Direct-to-Home (DTH) pay-per-view television programming undertakings, promoting competition while imposing requirements including: prohibition on exclusive distribution rights, mandatory Canadian content financial contributions based on revenue percentages, Canadian/foreign exhibition ratios, minimum Canadian programming quotas, remittances to rights holders, and compliance with satellite policies. It forbids operating without a license and requires immediate licensing calls.

Creates artificial barriers to entry through licensing, imposes costly content quotas that raise prices and distort programming away from consumer preferences, and interferes with freedom of contract by prohibiting exclusive distribution rights. The compliance burden reduces supply of services and innovation, while the 'Canadian content' requirements serve as a hidden tax on viewers. The stated goal of promoting competition is undermined by central planning mechanisms that replace market signals with bureaucratic mandates.

Order directing CRTC to license DTH distribution undertakings with conditions including >5% contributions to Canadian programming, parity with other distributors, anti-tying protections, and bilingual pay-per-view requirements.

Licensing barriers, mandated Canadian content contributions, and prescriptive rules distort market competition, raise consumer prices, and reduce innovation. The regulation impedes efficient resource allocation and limits consumer choice, contrary to free market principles.

Specific order authorizing a hydrometric technician to lease NWT land for a personal trapper's cabin, with minerals reserved to Crown.

Special interest land grants distort market allocation, create unfair privileges, and bypass transparent processes. Modern land management should rely on competitive, rule-based systems rather than individual legislative favors.

Mandates parent Crown corporations submit bilingual corporate plans and budgets (covering prior, current, and five forward years) to the Minister eight weeks before fiscal year start, explain missing information, and lay summarized versions before Parliament within 30 days of approval.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because it imposes minimal but essential transparency and accountability on Crown corporations that spend public funds. The standardized timelines and planning horizon force forward-looking discipline and enable effective parliamentary oversight. Achieving consistent, timely disclosure across numerous corporations would be difficult through voluntary measures alone, given their tendency toward opacity and the principal-agent problem inherent in government-owned enterprises.

This regulation prescribes a comprehensive list of agricultural products for safeguard surtaxes under section 68 of the Customs Tariff, imposing additional duties on imports including poultry, beef, dairy products, eggs, and margarine. It protects domestic agricultural producers from foreign competition through tariff barriers.

Safeguard surtaxes artificially inflate food prices for Canadian consumers, protect inefficient domestic producers from competition, and violate the principle of voluntary exchange that creates wealth. The unseen costs include higher grocery bills for families, reduced consumer choice, retaliatory trade barriers on Canadian exports, and perpetuation of agricultural inefficiency. These trade restrictions transfer wealth from consumers to producers, contradicting the fundamental economic understanding that free markets—not protectionism—drive prosperity and competitiveness.

These Rules establish detailed procedural requirements for proceedings before the National Energy Board, covering application filings, interventions, discovery, hearings, service, and timelines.

The rules impose substantial transaction costs, delays, and complexity on energy projects, raising costs for Canadians and reducing supply. They enable the NEB's harmful interference in markets while creating barriers favoring incumbents. Unseen effects include delayed infrastructure, higher prices, and reduced competitiveness. Minimal natural justice suffices; detailed procedures only burden economic activity.

The Air Transportation Tax Order, 1995 imposes specific tax amounts on air travel under the Excise Tax Act, with rates ranging from $1.50 to $55 depending on travel dates (pre-/post-February 1998), payment timing, and ticket type (single vs multi-segment, charter).

This tax artificially inflates travel costs, distorting market signals and reducing economic liberty. It discourages air travel, harming connectivity, tourism, and business activity while imposing unnecessary administrative burdens. The regulation's dated structure (1995-1998) indicates obsolescence; retaining it contradicts free-market principles by extracting private wealth and stifling prosperity through government intervention.

Establishes retirement compensation arrangements for surplus federal employees and Governor in Council appointees, providing supplementary benefits to bridge the gap between pension and early retirement allowances for those affected by workforce reduction programs between 1995-1998.

Creates a special entitlement class for specific public servants based on arbitrary timing and political decisions, distorting labor markets and pension systems. The arrangement privileges certain employees over others based on when they were affected by workforce reductions, creating inequity and moral hazard. Private sector workers facing similar circumstances receive no such benefits, representing regulatory capture that shields public servants from market realities.

Temporary 1995-1997 order exempting Statistics Canada from Public Service Employment Act to hire temporary workers for 1996 Census data collection and processing in clerical/administrative roles.

Expired over 25 years ago; obsolete regulation cluttering statute books. Its original exemption undermined merit-based hiring principles, setting poor precedent of circumventing public service rules rather than pursuing permanent hiring reforms.