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This regulation establishes procedures for federal departments to write off uncollectible debts owed to the Crown, including criteria for determining when debts are uncollectible and a review process for write-offs exceeding $25,000.

Provides necessary administrative framework for managing government receivables and ensures proper oversight of debt write-offs, preventing arbitrary write-offs while allowing departments to clear uncollectible debts from their books.

Teslin Airport Zoning Regulations impose height restrictions on buildings, structures, and objects within a 4,000m radius to protect aviation safety by prohibiting constructions that exceed defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) critical for aircraft takeoff and landing.

Deletion would compromise aviation safety, risking crashes, loss of life, and economic disruption. The regulation efficiently overcomes a coordination problem among numerous landowners that would make private bargaining prohibitively costly, and provides essential preventative standards that tort law cannot reliably deliver.

This Order grants the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) legal personality as a body corporate in Canada, along with extensive privileges and immunities for the organization, its staff, Director General (diplomatic-level immunity from criminal and civil jurisdiction except for traffic offenses), representatives of member states, and experts, based on the 1981 INMARSAT Protocol and the UN Convention on Privileges and Immunities.

Special legal privileges violate equality before the law and create an unaccountable institution shielded from normal legal processes. INMARSAT operates in a competitive satellite communications market where such immunities are unnecessary; any legitimate operational needs should be addressed through voluntary contracts, not government-granted immunities. The regulation's costs include eroded rule of law, reduced accountability, and distorted legal incentives that privilege an international body over Canadian citizens and businesses.

Grants ICAO and its representatives in Canada legal capacities, privileges, and immunities similar to those of diplomatic missions under international conventions, including tax relief for accredited missions.

Would harm Canada's international standing and ability to host international organizations if repealed, as it ensures ICAO can operate effectively in Canada under agreed-upon diplomatic protocols.

This regulation grants legal capacities and diplomatic privileges to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission and its representatives in Canada, including immunity from legal proceedings and other diplomatic protections for international fisheries management activities.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it enables international cooperation on managing shared fish stocks that cross national boundaries. Without these diplomatic protections, the Commission's representatives couldn't effectively negotiate, research, or enforce sustainable fishing practices that protect Canadian waters from overfishing by other nations.

Regulation establishes prohibited zones around Red Lake Airport using imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) to prevent building heights from encroaching on flight paths. It also prohibits waste disposal that attracts birds and any activity interfering with aircraft signals/communications. Applies to all land within a defined perimeter adjacent to the airport.

Canadians would be far worse off without this regulation. Aviation obstructions cause catastrophic, irreversible loss of life—not merely economic harm. Property rights and liability are inadequate: builders cannot price the full risk their structures pose to distant aircraft, and post-crash liability fails to prevent the tragedy. This regulation prevents loss of life in a way market mechanisms alone cannot, and it is narrowly tailored to affect only lands where obstructions actually endanger flight operations.

Sets an annual fee of $33.79 per sworn police officer for access to the RCMP's Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

Charging police for core law enforcement tools creates barriers, adds bureaucracy, and may reduce system utilization. Public safety infrastructure should be funded through general revenue, not per-user fees that limit access to essential services.

Regulation authorizes the British Columbia Milk Marketing Board to regulate interprovincial milk marketing, impose levies on producers, and equalize payments among them, replicating its provincial powers for cross-border trade.

Enforces interprovincial trade barriers, artificially restricts supply, inflates consumer prices, and shields incumbent producers from competition. Central planning distorts incentives, reduces economic efficiency, and imposes hidden costs on all Canadians through higher living expenses and constrained market access.

This Order establishes fees for communications transmitted through Canadian Coast Guard radio stations. It applies to most ship-to-station and station-to-ship communications, exempting safety-related messages and AMVER reports. Charges vary by communication type, duration/word count, and ship nationality (Canadian vs foreign). Payment is required in US dollars at a fixed exchange rate, with the originator or ship owner liable depending on direction.

Imposes administrative costs, discriminates between Canadian and foreign vessels, includes an obsolete gold franc exchange rate, and duplicates general revenue functions without clear justification; collection could be handled more transparently through the budget or a simpler fee structure.

Authorization for RCMP Officer Kenneth James McGilvray to acquire a specific leased parcel of land in the Northwest Territories by assignment, with all mineral rights reserved to the Crown.

This 1994 order is obsolete deadwood that exemplifies the flawed practice of using state power to approve individual property transfers. It adds regulatory clutter, creates legal uncertainty, and contradicts free-market principles that property transactions should be governed by general, impersonal rules. The order serves no current public purpose and should be repealed.

This regulation prohibits construction of buildings, structures, or objects that exceed specified elevation limits within defined airspace zones around Ross River Airport in Yukon. It establishes imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) with precise geometric definitions that protect aircraft takeoff and landing paths.

Airport safety protects lives and property from catastrophic harm. The regulation is narrowly tailored with objective, measurable height restrictions based on runway dimensions and approach angles. The market cannot adequately price this third-party risk, and post-hoc tort liability is insufficient to prevent loss of life. The restriction on property rights is justified by the overwhelming public safety benefit.

These Regulations establish procedures for the disposition of property forfeited to the Crown, including methods (public tender/auction or other), tender requirements, deposit and forfeiture rules, net proceeds calculation, and contractor indemnification. Schedule is a location change report form.

The regulation provides transparent, rule-based procedures for efficiently disposing of government assets. Removing it would create arbitrary, less accountable disposal processes that could undervalue assets, increase corruption risk, and harm taxpayers. It does not restrict private economic liberty.

This order authorizes two specific government employees to acquire interests in territorial lands in the Northwest Territories - one to lease land for a trapper's cabin and another to acquire a residential lot through assignment from the current lessee. The authorization includes standard mineral rights reservations.

This is a micro-regulation targeting two specific individuals with no broader public benefit. It creates unnecessary bureaucratic overhead, discriminates in favor of government employees over other citizens, and establishes a precedent for special treatment. The land acquisition process should be open to all citizens equally without government employee preferences.

This Order establishes a fee schedule for ocean data, analyses, and related services provided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, with fees varying by data type and processing requirements.

It imposes bureaucratic price controls on ocean data, reducing access and dissemination of information with positive externalities, while crowding out private sector alternatives and stifling innovation through rigid fee structures.

This regulation establishes a fee schedule for retail sales of nautical charts and related publications by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, with tiered pricing based on the number of chart sheets and special provisions for GEBCO products.

Keeping this regulation crowds out private chart providers, creating a government monopoly that reduces competition, innovation, and responsiveness to market needs. It burdens taxpayers with the administrative overhead of running a commercial printing operation and artificially depresses what would otherwise be a competitive market for navigational data, potentially compromising quality and timeliness of updates critical to maritime safety.