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Airport zoning regulations establishing height restrictions around Coppermine Airport to ensure aviation safety through controlled approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces within a 4,000m radius.

Canadians would be worse off if these regulations were deleted because uncontrolled building heights near airports would create catastrophic safety hazards for aircraft during takeoff and landing, potentially causing fatal crashes and grounding air traffic.

Protects St. Leonard Airport's airspace by prohibiting obstructions above defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) on nearby land; bans interference with aeronautical signals; mandates removal of excessive vegetation. Covers land within 4km radius and under extended approach paths.

Deletion would compromise aviation safety, risking crashes that harm lives, property, and airport viability. Uniform restriction is necessary because private bargaining across hundreds of parcels suffers from prohibitive transaction costs and holdouts; government must prevent public harm that catastrophically outweighs localized property rights constraints.

All sections (1-3) are repealed by SOR/2006-236, s. 18; no active provisions remain.

Repealed and obsolete. Maintaining it creates unnecessary legal clutter without any benefit.

This regulation sets a $25 fee for individuals requesting criminal record verification services from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for civil purposes (such as employment, adoption, or citizenship applications).

The regulation implements a modest user fee for a specific government service, following the user-pay principle. Deleting it would either create a free service (forcing all taxpayers to subsidize those who need checks) or require separate legislation. The $25 fee recovers administrative costs without creating significant barriers or distortions, and Canadians would not be worse off with its removal, but keeping it maintains appropriate cost recovery for a service that benefits only the specific users.

Fee regulation for devices used to intercept private communications, set at $56 for licensing by the Solicitor General of Canada

This regulation creates an unnecessary barrier to legitimate security and privacy equipment, potentially preventing individuals from protecting their own communications while doing little to stop actual criminal activity

These Regulations establish fees for criminal record verification services provided by the RCMP to provincial agencies for licensing or certifying individuals in insurance, real estate, or securities. The fee is $5 for Canadian criminal records and $60 for foreign criminal records.

Deletion would remove the legal basis for charging fees, potentially leading to arbitrary pricing or underfunding of the service. This could reduce accessibility, increase costs, and compromise public safety and fair employment screening. The regulation ensures transparent, uniform cost recovery that would be difficult to achieve through alternative arrangements.

Federal regulation setting a mandatory $25 fee for RCMP-provided fingerprinting services for visa, licensing, or security clearance purposes.

It creates a government monopoly, stifles private competition that could offer better/cheaper services, and adds unnecessary friction to immigration, licensing, and employment—reducing economic liberty and efficiency.

Regulates fees for RCMP forensic laboratory services, charging $110/hour plus travel costs for non-law enforcement clients using these services.

This regulation creates artificial scarcity by limiting access to forensic services only to law enforcement agencies at preferential rates, while charging market fees to others. It prevents private sector innovation in forensic analysis and restricts competition that could improve quality and reduce costs. The government monopoly on forensic services leads to longer wait times and prevents private clients from accessing potentially life-saving or property-saving forensic capabilities.

This regulation establishes fees for Revenue Canada's technical publication subscription services, charging $20/year or $35/two years for current publications and $65 for complete sets of historical technical publications.

This fee creates an unnecessary barrier to accessing tax information that should be freely available. The cost discourages public understanding of tax law and creates an artificial scarcity of information that should be public knowledge, while the administrative burden of collecting these fees likely exceeds the revenue generated.

These are detailed procedural rules governing immigration adjudication proceedings before the Adjudication Division. They cover establishment of registries, procedures for inquiries, hearings, and conferences, service and filing requirements, applications and motions, postponements, witness procedures, interpreter provisions, and detention reviews. The rules establish rigid timelines, mandatory certifications, and specific protocols for every stage of the process.

These rules impose excessive bureaucracy, create costly and time-consuming barriers to justice, and contribute to Canada's regulatory burden. The rigid, prescriptive nature increases administrative costs, enables delay tactics, and reduces efficiency without commensurate benefit to fairness. Simpler, flexible standards allowing adjudicator discretion would achieve legitimate procedural goals with far less burden on parties and the system. These rules exemplify process-over-substance regulation that hampers competitiveness and unnecessarily restricts the ability to resolve immigration matters expeditiously.

Establishes accounting and transfer procedures for federal minister to credit offshore petroleum revenues to a Revenue Account and subsequently pay them to Nova Scotia, implementing revenue-sharing under the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act.

It institutionalizes government control over offshore resources and intergovernmental transfers, distorting incentives, creating provincial dependency, and diverting resources from a private property, market-based system where owners would directly benefit from extraction.

Defines 'programming undertaking' for copyright purposes as a non-broadcasting telecommunication network transmitting programs to the public.

Deletion would create legal uncertainty, leading to costly litigation and inconsistent application of copyright law. The definition supports enforceable property rights while not imposing direct burdens.

This 1993 Order grants temporary remission of customs duties on specific imported consumer goods including electronics, sporting goods, and household items. The remission applies only to goods imported between the Order's commencement and December 31, 1997, with claims required within two years of importation.

This regulation is obsolete and no longer in force—the duty remission period expired on December 31, 1997, and the claims window has long since closed. Keeping expired regulations on the books creates regulatory clutter, imposes compliance burdens on officials who must still reference them, and creates legal uncertainty. The regulation should be formally repealed to maintain a lean, current regulatory framework.

The Pas Airport Zoning Regulations restrict building heights, natural growth, and bird-attracting waste disposal within defined approach, transitional, and outer surfaces surrounding The Pas Airport to ensure aviation safety by preventing obstructions to aircraft operations.

Deleting these regulations would risk catastrophic aircraft accidents from obstructions, causing loss of life and disrupting essential transportation; the zoning provides a clear, proactive standard that cannot be replicated by liability rules alone, as crashes are irreversible and market mechanisms fail to internalize such extreme externalities beforehand.

Aviation safety zoning regulation that restricts building heights and land use within 4km of Gillam Airport to prevent obstructions in defined airspace surfaces and prohibits waste disposal that attracts birds.

Aircraft accidents impose catastrophic, non-consensual harm on third parties; liability after a crash is inadequate to prevent loss of life. This regulation internalizes the externalities of airport operations by preventing hazards before they cause harm, and is narrowly tailored to safety rather than economic protectionism. The costs of repeal—risk to human life and aircraft safety—far exceed the modest land use restrictions imposed on a limited geographic area.