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Allows expedited hiring of temporary clerical/administrative staff (<3 months, <6 months/year total) in Department of External Affairs, bypassing normal competitive processes.

Canadians would be worse off without this flexibility for short-term staffing needs; it prevents bureaucratic delays that impair government services or force costlier contracting. The aggregate caps and termination provisions prevent abuse while enabling agile administrative functions that would be difficult to replicate through permanent hiring or external procurement.

1993 temporary order excluded short-term clerical/admin staff in Department of External Affairs from Public Service Employment Act requirements.

Obsolete (expired 1993) and flawed: created two-tier workforce by denying temporary workers standard employment protections and merit-based hiring, undermining equal treatment and risking exploitation.

Establishes procedural rules for the RCMP Public Complaints Commission governing complaint handling, discovery, hearings, interventions, confidentiality, and witness summons, enabling independent civilian oversight of RCMP conduct.

Canadians would be worse off without independent civilian oversight of police. This regulation provides essential accountability mechanisms for state coercive power, ensuring systematic, impartial review of RCMP misconduct. Alternative approaches would be ad hoc, less transparent, and more susceptible to institutional bias.

Federal loan guarantee program for small business equipment, land, premises, and fees financing with government-backed default protection and registration requirements.

Government-backed loan guarantees distort credit markets by socializing risk, encouraging lenders to make suboptimal loans they wouldn't otherwise approve, creating moral hazard, and crowding out private lending alternatives.

Establishes the Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec as a marketing board with authority to regulate bulk maple sap and syrup marketing in interprovincial and export trade. The board may impose compulsory levies on Quebec producers and use funds for reserves, expense coverage, and revenue equalization among producers.

This regulation creates a government-sanctioned monopoly that restricts interprovincial trade, imposes compulsory fees, and centrally controls marketing decisions. It suppresses competition, distorts price signals, and prevents efficient producers from freely accessing markets. The equalization mechanism punishes successful producers to subsidize less efficient ones, reducing overall productivity and innovation. Canadians pay higher prices and face reduced supply due to this artificial barrier to internal trade, directly contradicting the goal of national economic unity and prosperity.

Allows Department of Public Works to hire temporary staff in specified occupational groups for periods under 3 months (maximum 6 months per year) outside normal civil service hiring rules, with termination possible with one day's notice.

Deleting this exemption would subject short-term hiring to burdensome civil service processes, increasing administrative costs and preventing rapid response to temporary workload needs. The time limits balance flexibility with preventing conversion of temporary positions into permanent ones circumventing merit-based hiring.

Excludes short-term employees (periods <3 months, total <6 months/year) in specific Public Works job categories from the Public Service Employment Act for the 1993 calendar year only.

This deregulatory exclusion reduces bureaucratic barriers, allowing government to quickly hire temporary workers for genuine short-term needs without full public service hiring procedures. It creates more flexible employment opportunities and reduces administrative costs, while the strict time/aggregate limits and narrow occupational scope prevent abuse. Removing it would force the government to use cumbersome permanent-hiring processes for temporary needs, increasing red tape and reducing workforce responsiveness.

A tariff remission order granting Ronsco Inc. a customs duty refund on railcar bolsters and sideframes imported for CN's boxcar conversion project, effectively providing a targeted subsidy to specific firms.

This corporate welfare distorts market competition by granting special privilege to CN/Ronsco, misallocates capital via artificial price signals, encourages cronyism over efficiency, and imposes hidden costs on taxpayers and competitors. Such selective interventions violate the principle of equal treatment and prevent resources from flowing to their highest-valued uses based on genuine market demand.

Quebec Sheep and Wool Order authorizes the Office des producteurs d'agneaux et de moutons du Québec to regulate interprovincial and export trade of sheep and wool, impose levies on producers and marketers, and use those funds for board operations including reserves and producer equalization.

Creates monopoly marketing board that restricts interprovincial trade, imposes mandatory levies on producers, and distorts market pricing through producer equalization schemes. This regulatory burden reduces supply, increases costs, and prevents competitive market mechanisms that would benefit both producers and consumers through lower prices and greater choice.

These regulations govern the lending of public property (excluding real property) by federal departments and agencies. They require written contracts specifying consideration, indemnification, inspection rights, loan term, and security requirements, with emergency provisions allowing temporary loans via written acknowledgment.

Creates unnecessary bureaucratic overhead for routine public property lending. The indemnification and inspection requirements increase administrative costs without clear public benefit. Emergency provisions are already covered by common law and existing emergency powers. Private parties can negotiate similar protections without regulatory mandate.

Aviation safety zoning regulation for Flin Flon Airport (MB) that prohibits construction of buildings/structures exceeding defined imaginary approach/transitional/outer surfaces within 4km radius, bans waste disposal attracting birds, and allows removal of overgrown vegetation. Establishes clear height restrictions based on runway configuration.

Without these restrictions, individual property owners could erect obstacles that endanger aircraft and lives during critical takeoff/landing phases. The regulation prevents a classic tragedy of the commons where no single actor bears full cost of accidents. Alternative mechanisms (liability after crashes, easements, contracts) are inadequate for irreversible catastrophic harm. The rules are narrowly tailored to physically necessary safety buffers based on engineering standards, not arbitrary restrictions.

This regulation establishes zoning restrictions around Coral Harbour Airport to protect airspace for aviation safety, preventing construction of buildings or structures that could interfere with aircraft approach paths, outer airspace boundaries, and transitional surfaces.

This regulation imposes costly restrictions on land use without demonstrable benefit - aviation safety can be maintained through private agreements and market mechanisms, while these zoning rules create artificial scarcity, drive up land costs, and prevent productive development of valuable Arctic land.

Regulations governing referendums for First Nations to confirm specific land agreements under the Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Act. Establishes voting procedures, eligibility, ballot handling, observer requirements, and appeal processes.

These regulations ensure democratic decision-making for First Nations regarding land agreements, providing structured voting procedures and appeal mechanisms that protect community interests and treaty rights. The regulatory framework is necessary to maintain consistency and fairness in these important sovereignty decisions.

Regulation establishes height restrictions within 4km radius of Spence Bay Airport to prevent obstructions to aircraft approach/departure paths, defining imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) that no structures may exceed.

Deleting this would create unacceptable safety risks; the regulation efficiently prevents catastrophic externalities that pure liability rules cannot adequately address ex ante, as a single non-compliant structure endangers all airport operations and public safety.

Establishes zoning restrictions around Charlottetown Airport, prohibiting structures taller than imaginary approach/outer/transitional surfaces and restricting waste that could attract birds. Applies to lands within a 4km radius of the airport reference point.

Prevents physical obstructions that could cause aircraft accidents during takeoff/landing, protecting passengers, crew, and ground residents. The restriction is narrowly geographically targeted and prevents clear harm to others (flightsafety). Removal would endanger lives through increased crash risk, with no less intrusive alternative achieving the same safety outcome.