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Establishes imaginary protected surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) around Swift Current Airport to prevent obstructions and hazards. Prohibits construction exceeding these surfaces, requires removal of overgrown vegetation, and bans waste disposal that attracts birds. Applies to specifically described parcels of land in Saskatchewan.

Deleting this regulation would endanger aviation safety by allowing obstructions and bird attractants in critical flight paths. The coordination required to protect airspace cannot be achieved through decentralized market mechanisms; the catastrophic potential of crashes makes preventive regulation necessary. While it restricts land use, the alternative—liability after accidents—is inadequate for irreversible harms.

Extends duty and tax relief privileges to administrative and technical staff of the U.S. Embassy in Canada and their families, similar to diplomatic agents, but explicitly excludes Canadian nationals and permanent residents.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted due to probable retaliation against Canadian diplomats abroad, harming our diplomatic effectiveness and the vital U.S.-Canada relationship. The regulation achieves reciprocal benefits through a simple rule based on consular status, avoiding costly individual assessments while preserving fairness to Canadian citizens who remain subject to full taxation.

Zoning regulations for Fort Norman Airport in Northwest Territories, establishing height restrictions and approach surfaces to ensure aviation safety around the airport.

Aviation safety requires standardized height restrictions around airports to prevent collisions with aircraft during takeoff and landing. Without these regulations, buildings or natural growth could obstruct flight paths, creating dangerous conditions for pilots and passengers. The costs of a single aviation accident would far exceed the regulatory compliance costs.

This regulation imposes height restrictions on buildings, structures, and natural growth within a 4km radius of Grand Manan Airport to prevent obstacles from interfering with aircraft operations. It establishes imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) that define allowable elevations and prohibits land uses that attract birds or interfere with aeronautical signals.

Deleting this would undermine aviation safety by allowing obstacles that could cause fatal crashes. The regulation protects lives, property, and the airport's economic function through preventive measures that are far more efficient than post-accident liability or voluntary compliance alone.

Aklavik Airport zoning regulation prohibits structures or objects exceeding defined approach surfaces, outer surface, and transitional surfaces to ensure safe aircraft operations.

Deletion would enable obstructions that could cause fatal aircraft crashes and sever critical air links to remote Aklavik; private mechanisms cannot adequately coordinate prevention given numerous landowners and externalized risks.

This regulation extends diplomatic privileges and immunities to administrative and technical staff of the US Embassy and their families in Canada, excluding those who are Canadian nationals or permanent residents.

Removing this would disadvantage Canadian diplomatic relations by creating unequal treatment for US embassy staff, potentially leading to reciprocal restrictions on Canadian diplomatic personnel abroad and undermining international diplomatic protocols.

Procedural regulations governing the Public Service Staff Relations Board (PSSRB) for handling labour relations, grievances, applications, certifications, arbitration, and dispute resolution processes in the federal public service.

These regulations create bureaucratic overhead and procedural complexity that delays resolution of labour disputes. The extensive formal processes increase costs for taxpayers and employers while slowing dispute resolution. Market-based labour relations with simpler, more flexible procedures would better serve both employees and employers.

Airport zoning regulation for Whale Cove Airport (NWT) that prohibits construction on land within 4,000m radius of the airport reference point if any structure exceeds the height of defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) used to ensure safe aircraft takeoff and landing operations.

This regulation protects public safety by preventing physical obstructions that could cause catastrophic aircraft accidents. The modest geographic limitation on building heights around a specific airport is a necessary and narrowly-tailored constraint that would be difficult to achieve through private means alone. Canadians would be demonstrably worse off if removed, as it would allow construction that directly endangers lives.

Airport zoning regulations that restrict building heights around Rankin Inlet Airport by defining imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) to prevent obstructions that could interfere with aircraft operations. Applies to land within 4000m radius of airport reference point.

Deleting these regulations would create direct safety hazards and disrupt essential transportation infrastructure. Tall structures near airports endanger lives during takeoff/landing and create negative externalities affecting numerous parties unable to negotiate coordination. The restriction is narrowly tailored to specific safety zones and serves a compelling public interest that private ordering would struggle to address.

Zoning regulations for Gjoa Haven Airport that restrict building heights near the airport to ensure aviation safety by maintaining clear approach paths, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces around the airport property.

Aviation safety requires clear approach paths and obstacle-free zones around airports. Removing these regulations would create hazards for aircraft landing and taking off, potentially causing fatal accidents. The economic costs of aviation accidents far exceed any development restrictions.

Amends the Public Service Superannuation Act to apply to designated airport employees who elected coverage under the Airport Transfer Act, treating employment with designated airport authorities as public service for pension calculations and limiting survivor benefits to relationships established before the transfer unless the employee re-contributes. Retroactive to July 1, 1992.

It extends costly public pension privileges to a specific private entity, creating a privileged class, distorting labor markets, and entrenching unsustainable defined-benefit liabilities. This obsolete transitional regulation adds legal complexity and sets a harmful precedent for future asset transfers.

Increases monetary thresholds for informal procedures in Tax Court of Canada from $7,000/$14,000 to $12,000/$24,000, expanding access to simplified dispute resolution for tax appeals.

Deletion would reduce access to affordable tax dispute resolution, forcing more taxpayers into costly formal litigation and weakening property rights protection. The threshold mechanism efficiently allocates judicial resources in a way that alternative systems would struggle to replicate.

Federal excise tax on air transportation with specific exemptions, reporting requirements, and cross-border tax adjustments

This tax creates deadweight loss by raising prices and reducing air travel demand, imposes compliance costs on airlines, and distorts competition. The cross-border tax adjustments create complexity without clear benefit, while the exemptions create arbitrary distinctions. Air transportation should be subject to general sales tax rather than special excise taxation.

Aviation safety regulation establishing height restrictions for buildings and structures around Bagotville Airport to protect aircraft approach paths, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces, plus prohibiting bird-attracting land uses near the airport.

Aviation safety requires strict height restrictions around airports to prevent mid-air collisions and ensure safe aircraft approaches. The economic costs of a single aviation accident would far exceed any development restrictions, and these regulations enable critical transportation infrastructure that supports regional commerce.

The regulation consists solely of a list of 20 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States) with no explanatory text. It appears to designate these nations for some regulatory purpose, but the intended scope, mechanisms, and legal effect are not provided.

This arbitrary list creates a privileged class of countries without objective criteria, violating non-discrimination and free market principles. It distorts trade and mobility incentives, imposes compliance and complexity costs, and harms consumers and businesses from non-listed nations by erecting barriers. The regulation likely reflects mercantilist thinking rather than a rules-based neutral system, and its deletion would promote equal treatment and voluntary exchange.