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This Order authorizes two specific Government of Canada employees to acquire interests in specified territorial lands in the Northwest Territories by assignment from current lessees, with mines and minerals reserved to the Crown.

It grants arbitrary preferential acquisition rights to specific government employees, distorting the land market and violating equal treatment under the law. No public necessity justifies this special privilege; land should be acquired through open, voluntary market transactions by any citizen, not by government designation. This cronyist intervention undermines the principles of liberty and private property it should protect.

These are repealed regulations from the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, previously dealing with immigration matters but now obsolete.

Already repealed and obsolete - no current regulatory burden or effect on Canadian prosperity and liberty.

Exempts Alberta from specific federal environmental regulations (vinyl chloride, lead smelter, pulp/paper effluent), replacing them with provincial rules.

Creates interprovincial regulatory fragmentation, raising compliance costs for national businesses. Risks a race to the bottom in environmental protection and allows pollution spillovers across provincial borders. Federal consistency prevents regulatory arbitrage and ensures all Canadians equally share environmental burdens and benefits.

These regulations have been repealed and are no longer in effect. They were originally related to unspecified regulatory matters that have since been removed from the legal framework.

Already repealed - obsolete regulations with no current legal effect. No cost to deletion since they're already non-operational.

Document lists four sections (1-4) that have been repealed by various SORs (Statutory Orders and Regulations). No active regulation content remains.

These sections are already repealed and have no legal force. Maintaining repealed provisions in regulatory codes creates clutter and confusion. They serve no practical purpose and should be removed from the active body of regulations.

These are repealed sections from the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs), already removed by SOR/2001-415 and SOR/2006-318. They no longer have legal effect.

Already repealed due to obsolescence or identified flaws. Maintaining repealed entries creates unnecessary regulatory clutter and confusion with zero benefit to Canadians.

This regulation governs the interprovincial marketing of milk, granting the Saskatchewan Milk Control Board authority to regulate milk trade between provinces, impose levies, and manage marketing plans. It establishes quotas, pricing mechanisms, and collection systems for milk producers shipping across provincial borders.

This regulation creates a supply-managed dairy cartel that restricts market entry, raises consumer prices, and prevents efficient resource allocation. It imposes artificial quotas and levies that benefit a small group of producers at the expense of consumers and potential new entrants. The regulation distorts market signals, creates inefficiencies, and prevents competitive pricing that would naturally emerge in a free market for dairy products.

This Order authorizes Quebec's milk marketing boards to regulate interprovincial trade of milk between Quebec and Ontario, granting them powers akin to those exercised within Quebec. It covers milk produced in Quebec and Ontario shipments to Quebec, allows imposition of levies on producers, and excludes powers held by the Canadian Dairy Commission.

This regulation enforces interprovincial trade barriers, restricting supply and raising consumer prices through supply management. It violates free market principles by allowing marketing boards to control cross-border commerce, perpetuating artificial scarcity, regulatory capture, and higher costs—harmful to Canadian prosperity and competitiveness with no offsetting market benefit.

This regulation authorizes the Alberta Milk Control Board to regulate interprovincial milk marketing between Alberta and British Columbia, including setting quotas, fixing levies, and collecting charges for milk marketing purposes.

This regulation creates artificial trade barriers between provinces, restricts supply, and imposes cartel-like pricing mechanisms that reduce competition and increase consumer costs. The interprovincial trade restrictions are particularly harmful as they prevent free movement of milk between provinces and create regulatory duplication with federal oversight.

A time-limited remission of customs duties on guitar parts imported between September 23, 1993 and March 10, 1994 for guitar manufacturing, with claims due within two years of importation.

This regulation is obsolete (expired nearly 32 years ago), adds legal clutter, and represents the flawed principle of government picking winners. Keeping expired regulations creates confusion, administrative burden, and distorts markets by maintaining a precedent for special-interest exemptions rather than free trade.

These regulations establish Canadian ownership requirements for telecommunications carriers, limiting non-Canadian ownership to 20% (or historical levels for certain carriers) and mandating detailed reporting on beneficial ownership.

These regulations restrict capital investment and talent deployment in Canada's telecom sector, artificially limiting competition and innovation. The ownership restrictions prevent foreign investors from providing capital to expand infrastructure, reduce service quality through reduced competition, and create administrative burdens that raise costs for consumers. The regulations also impede Canada's ability to attract global talent and investment in a critical infrastructure sector.

This regulation repeals an order that authorized the Prince Edward Island Milk Marketing Board to regulate milk marketing in interprovincial trade, including setting levies and charges. The regulation provided the Board with powers similar to those it had locally within the province, except for powers exercised by the Canadian Dairy Commission.

This regulation created a provincial marketing board with authority to impose levies and charges on interprovincial milk trade, effectively restricting free trade between provinces and creating artificial barriers to market entry. Such marketing boards typically reduce competition, increase prices for consumers, and limit economic freedom by preventing farmers from freely marketing their products across provincial borders.

This repealed order authorized the New Brunswick Milk Marketing Board to regulate interprovincial milk marketing, fix and collect levies on milk producers, and use those funds for board expenses, reserves, loss coverage, and equalization payments among producers.

Creates government monopoly control over dairy marketing, restricts interprovincial free trade, imposes distortionary levies, interferes with price signals, reduces supply and competition, and increases consumer costs—all while violating property rights and economic liberty. The regulation's central planning approach cannot replicate the efficiency of decentralized market coordination.

Authorizes the Nova Scotia Dairy Commission to regulate interprovincial milk marketing, including setting levies and charges on producers, with authority limited to powers not exercised by the Canadian Dairy Commission.

Creates interprovincial trade barriers by allowing provincial regulation of dairy products, which distorts market prices, restricts supply, and prevents free trade between provinces. The levies and charges function as price controls that reduce efficiency and harm consumers through higher prices and reduced availability.

Remission of customs duties for Canadian Forces materiel imported due to base closures and personnel recall from Germany, Bermuda, and Cyprus between 1992-1995.

Obsolete time-limited remission order from 1992-1997 that expired over 25 years ago, creating unnecessary regulatory clutter without current economic impact.