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This regulation establishes fees for taxation statistical analyses and data processing services provided by the Department of National Revenue, including hourly rates for various technical and administrative positions, plus fees for data conversion, printouts, and storage media.

This regulation creates artificial pricing for government services that distorts market signals and creates hidden costs for taxpayers. The fees are essentially a tax on data processing that could be eliminated to reduce regulatory burden and allow market-based pricing if these services were privatized or outsourced.

This regulation establishes height restrictions around Hall Beach Airport through imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) to prevent obstructions that could interfere with aircraft operations. It prohibits construction of any building, structure, or object that would exceed these surface elevations within a 4km radius of the airport reference point.

Without these restrictions, individual property owners could erect structures that endanger aircraft during critical takeoff/landing phases, imposing catastrophic risks on passengers and people on the ground. The externalities of such obstructions cannot be internalized through private contracts due to prohibitive transaction costs and holdout problems. The regulation prevents a tragedy of the commons where each owner's right to build conflicts with collective aviation safety, and the narrow, spatially-defined nature of the restriction minimizes interference with property rights while addressing an existential risk that markets alone cannot efficiently manage.

This order establishes a Quebec-based board to regulate the marketing of vegetables for processing in interprovincial and export trade. The Board can fix and collect levies, classify producers into groups with different charges, and use funds for reserves, expenses, losses, and producer equalization.

This regulation creates artificial barriers to interprovincial trade, restricts market competition, and imposes mandatory levies that distort prices and reduce supply. It protects Quebec producers at the expense of consumers and other provinces, creating the very trade barriers that harm Canadian economic integration.

The Igloolik Airport Zoning Regulations prohibit construction that would penetrate imaginary aviation surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) around the airport, ensuring safe aircraft operations.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because it would endanger air travel through potential collisions. This safety standard is hard to replicate privately as individual landowners may not voluntarily restrict development, requiring a binding rule to protect the public.

A fee order imposing a $27 charge for computer diskettes containing taxation statistics requested from the Minister of National Revenue.

The fee creates an unnecessary barrier to accessing public information, imposes administrative costs that likely exceed revenue, and serves no compelling public interest given modern digital alternatives and the principle that non-sensitive government data should be freely available for transparency and economic analysis.

The regulation formally designates specific surveyed parcels within national parks as towns, visitor centres, or resort subdivisions by listing their plan numbers, establishing legal recognition for these developed areas.

Deletion would create legal uncertainty about boundaries and status, preventing proper administration, infrastructure planning, and service delivery in these established communities, leading to jurisdictional ambiguity and governance failures.

A 1991 order authorizing Petro-Canada Limited and its subsidiaries to undertake specific corporate transactions (incorporations, share/asset acquisitions, sales, dissolutions) with each transaction limited to 0.5% of Petro-Canada's 1990 consolidated gross assets.

This 35-year-old order is obsolete and unnecessarily restricts the corporate flexibility of what was a state-owned enterprise. The arbitrary thresholds and prescriptive approvals create compliance burdens while providing no public benefit - corporate transactions of this magnitude should be decided by management and shareholders, not regulators. Keeping it on the books adds pointless red tape.

Sets maximum annual benefit payments for unemployment insurance under sections 24, 25, and 26 of the Unemployment Insurance Act for 1991, with caps of $230M, $120M, and $620M respectively.

Government-imposed benefit caps distort labor markets, create moral hazard, and prevent natural price mechanisms from allocating unemployment resources efficiently. These artificial limits reduce supply of available workers, increase employer costs, and create dependency on state-mandated insurance rather than market-based alternatives.

These Regulations adapt the Public Service Superannuation Act and Supplementary Retirement Benefits Act to employees who elected to move between the Public Service and Petro-Canada Limited. They ensure pensionable service includes employment with Petro-Canada, treat the date of leaving Petro-Canada as the date of leaving the Public Service for pension calculations, and set July 1991 as the retirement month for certain purposes. This protects pension benefits during the privatization transition.

Deleting this regulation would directly harm former public servants and Petro-Canada employees by disrupting their pension calculations and potentially reducing earned benefits. It protects individuals' property rights in their pension contributions without distorting markets or creating burdens. The regulation merely adapts existing pension rules to a specific historical context and does not interfere with economic liberty. The protection of earned pension benefits is legitimate and deletion would constitute an unjustified taking.

This regulation adjusts the excise tax indexing ratios for specific dates in 1983 and 1984 (September 1, 1983 and September 1, 1984), setting multipliers to calculate excise tax adjustments for those past periods.

Repealed/irrelevant: The regulation applies only to specific dates in 1983-1984 which have long passed. It has no current legal effect and represents a dead letter. The original mechanistic indexing approach would now be handled by modern inflation adjustment provisions. Keeping this obsolete text creates legal clutter and confusion without serving any purpose.

Regulation setting criteria for Copyright Board to determine 'fair and equitable' retransmission royalties for distant signals, mandating consideration of US royalties, Canadian Broadcasting Act effects, and existing agreements between collecting bodies and retransmitters.

Imposes government-mandated monopoly pricing on content distribution, creating artificial scarcity and raising costs for retransmitters and consumers. In a free market, voluntary contracts would determine terms without regulatory intervention. This protectionist scheme entrenches incumbent broadcasters, stifles competition, and restricts the free flow of information across borders.

These regulations provide technical rules for calculating annual pension adjustments under the Pension Act, specifying rounding procedures for dollar amounts (to the nearest cent) and percentage calculations (to four decimal places).

Canadians would face uncertainty and inconsistent pension adjustments without these standardized calculation rules, which ensure predictability, transparency, and fairness in the pension system.

Prescribes the formula for calculating the estimated federal sales tax amount to determine the new housing rebate under the Excise Tax Act, based on property size (floor area) and consideration/fair market value, with special rules for condominiums and exclusions for unfinished basements, parking, and mechanical spaces.

Canadians would be worse off because the rebate reduces the tax burden on new housing, improving affordability. Without this regulation's clear formulas, the rebate program would be inconsistently applied, leading to arbitrary tax collection and uncertainty for homebuyers and builders. The regulation ensures intended relief reaches eligible parties predictably and is administratively feasible.

This is a transitional regulation from the 1991 GST implementation that prescribes tax factors for calculating inventory rebates. It allows businesses to claim rebates on tax-paid inventory held as of January 1, 1991 to prevent double taxation during the tax transition. The regulation specifies percentage factors (e.g., 5.6% for Schedule IV goods, 11.1% for motor vehicles) and provides detailed formulas for calculating the rebate amount based on inventory value or quantity.

This regulation is obsolete and served a one-time transitional purpose over 30 years ago. Any eligible rebates would have been claimed by the 1991 deadline. Keeping it on the books contributes to regulatory clutter, creates confusion about applicability, and adds maintenance burden without serving any current public interest. The costs of its continued existence (unnecessary legal complexity, potential misinterpretation) outweigh any conceivable benefit.

Regulates use of National Battlefields Park by prohibiting property damage, water pollution, restricting bicycles/skateboards/organized sports to designated areas, and requiring animal leashes and waste cleanup. Scope covers all park lands under the National Battlefields Commission.

Deletion would risk degradation of this national historic site through property damage, pollution, unsafe recreational use, and unsanitary animal waste, diminishing public access and enjoyment. The rules are minimally intrusive but necessary to preserve the park's integrity and ensure orderly shared use, which voluntary compliance would not reliably achieve.