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Establishes height restrictions and prohibits bird-attracting waste disposal on lands surrounding Dauphin Airport to prevent obstructions to aircraft operations and mitigate bird strike risks.

Deletion would endanger aircraft and lives; the height restrictions and bird waste prohibitions prevent externalities that cannot be mitigated through private bargaining or liability due to the irreversible nature of accidents, making coordinated preemptive regulation essential for public safety.

Airport zoning regulation establishing height restrictions, approach surfaces, and land use controls around La Ronge Airport to ensure aviation safety by preventing obstructions to flight paths and bird attractants near runways.

Aviation safety requires standardized height restrictions and approach surface protections. Without these regulations, buildings, structures, and trees could create hazards for aircraft taking off and landing, potentially causing fatal accidents. The bird attractant prohibition similarly prevents wildlife strikes that could bring down planes.

Regulation defines restricted airspace zones around Sarnia Airport using imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and prohibits any structure, object, or natural growth that exceeds these surfaces. It also bans waste disposal that could attract birds, enforced by the Minister of Transport.

Enormous land-use restrictions extending kilometers from a regional airport artificially constrain housing supply, increase costs, and stifle economic development in the Sarnia area. The 1986 specifications are outdated and grossly overbroad relative to actual aviation risks, prioritizing blanket prophylactic control over property rights and market responsiveness. Safety can be achieved through far less restrictive means—narrower immediate approach zones, liability for obstructions, and modern risk-based standards—eliminating the massive deadweight loss and lost prosperity induced by this heavy-handed federal incursion into local land use.

This order grants the Ontario Fresh Potato Growers' Marketing Board authority to regulate interprovincial and export marketing of Ontario fresh potatoes, including the power to fix and collect levies from producers and redistribute revenues among them.

This regulation establishes an interprovincial trade barrier that violates the principle of free internal commerce central to economic liberty. It empowers a marketing board to control commerce, distort price signals, and impose taxes on producers. Such supply management systems artificially restrict supply, raise consumer prices, reduce competitive dynamism, and create rent-seeking opportunities. The unintended consequences include reduced economic efficiency, stifled innovation, and the misallocation of resources according to central plan rather than consumer sovereignty.

Regulation defines what constitutes valid security for federal government debts: only charges on debtor's or guarantor's existing/future personal or real property. Authorizes Ministers to accept such securities and execute releases when debts are paid.

Standard government debt collection mechanism; deleting it would impair federal revenue collection and create legal uncertainty without any meaningful gain in liberty or economic efficiency. narrowly tailored with no evident unintended distortive effects.

Establishes protective zones around Quesnel Airport with imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) to restrict building heights and natural growth for aviation safety. Prohibits waste disposal that attracts birds. Minister can order removal of violations.

Prevents catastrophic harm from aviation accidents caused by obstructions and bird strikes. The narrow, technically-grounded restrictions on specific properties near the airport are justified by the irreversible costs of crashes—loss of life and disruption of vital transportation infrastructure. Alternatives like post-hoc liability or voluntary compliance inadequate for preventing disasters before they occur.

The Stephenville Airport Zoning Regulations restrict land development and use within a 4km radius of the airport and in approach surface areas extending up to 15km. The regulations prohibit structures exceeding specified height limits, allow the Minister to compel removal of vegetation that exceeds these limits, and ban waste disposal that may attract birds. The stated purpose is to protect airspace and ensure aviation safety around Stephenville Airport.

This regulation severely restricts property rights of landowners without compensation, imposing height limits, use restrictions, and compulsory vegetation removal over a vast area. Aviation safety can be achieved through less restrictive means: the airport operator could purchase voluntary easements or buffer zones, tort law provides recourse for actual damages, and the market would price any residual risk. The concentrated costs on landowners outweigh the diffuse benefits to air travelers, and the regulation prevents mutually beneficial development that could increase prosperity. The 'bird attractant' ban is an especially intrusive infringement on land use that should be resolved through liability rules rather than prior restraint.

This regulation establishes the Saskatchewan Pulse Crop Development Board to control interprovincial and export trade of pulse crops (peas, beans, fababeans, chickpeas, broad beans, lentils) grown in Saskatchewan. The Board can fix prices, impose levies, create marketing schemes, and restrict free trade between provinces and with foreign markets.

This is a supply management scheme that restricts free trade, creates artificial scarcity, and imposes costs on producers and consumers. It prevents farmers from freely marketing their crops, distorts prices through central planning, and reduces economic efficiency. The unseen costs include reduced innovation, higher consumer prices, and barriers to interprovincial commerce that harm Canada's economic competitiveness.

Pension protection regulations for Teleglobe Canada employees transitioning from public service, ensuring continuity of pension benefits and retirement calculations when employees moved from government to the new corporation.

This regulation protects employees' earned pension benefits during a corporate transition, preventing loss of retirement security and ensuring fair treatment of workers who moved from public service to Teleglobe Canada. Deleting it would expose retirees to benefit reductions and financial hardship.

This regulation establishes safety zoning around Dawson Creek Airport, prohibiting construction exceeding defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and banning waste disposal that attracts birds. It applies to specifically described lands and allows Ministerial orders to remove excessive natural growth.

Without these restrictions, aircraft would face unacceptable collision risks with structures and bird strikes, causing preventable fatalities and property damage. The spatial boundaries and clear height limits provide predictable rules that property owners can follow—liability lawsuits after crashes cannot restore lives or prevent the tragedy. Private negotiation of easements across hundreds of landowners would be prohibitively costly, making government-established safety zones the only practical solution for protecting passenger lives and maintaining safe aviation operations.

Establishes maximum liability limits for oil and gas spills across different Canadian regions, ranging from $10M to $40M depending on location and environmental sensitivity.

Predetermined liability caps interfere with market price mechanisms, create moral hazard by limiting full compensation for damages, and socialize risk onto victims and taxpayers. True liability should be based on actual harm as determined by courts, not arbitrary government-determined limits that distort incentives and reduce precaution.

Regulations governing export permits for steel, requiring detailed applications, documentation, and compliance with origin verification and customs procedures.

Creates bureaucratic barriers to trade, imposes compliance costs on exporters, and restricts the free flow of steel products without clear evidence of national benefit. The paperwork requirements and origin verification provisions increase costs and delays for legitimate business while potentially being circumvented by determined bad actors.

Government insurance program providing up to 85% coverage on loans to Nardeux Canada Lté for high-tech radio-protection and radio-telecommunications projects, with maximum aggregate coverage of $475,000 and 2% annual fees paid by lenders

This targeted loan guarantee distorts market signals, creates moral hazard by socializing risk while privatizing gains, and misallocates capital to a politically favored firm at the expense of more productive uses. The unseen costs include reduced market discipline, potential for cronyism, and opportunity costs of capital that would be better deployed through voluntary market mechanisms without government intervention.

These Regulations establish a licensing system for marketing eggs in interprovincial and export trade, administered by the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency. They require licenses for all buyers and sellers (with small retailer exceptions), mandate that eggs must come from producers with federal quotas, impose extensive reporting requirements, and allow the Agency to refuse, suspend, or revoke licenses. The system creates a government-controlled marketing cartel that restricts supply and controls trade.

This regulation imposes severe market distortions: it restricts interprovincial trade through licensing, enforces a quota system that artificially limits egg supply, raises consumer prices, creates barriers to entry, and imposes burdensome reporting costs. The quota system particularly harms by protecting inefficient producers and preventing market-driven expansion. The unseen costs include lost entrepreneurial opportunity, reduced innovation in egg production and marketing, and deadweight loss from suppressed competition. As a supply management system, it directly contradicts free market principles and is a primary cause of Canada's interprovincial trade barriers.

Provides government insurance for up to 90% of losses on loans to St. Marys Paper Inc. for modernizing paper manufacturing facilities, with maximum coverage of $15 million and annual fees of at least 1% to private lenders.

Creates market distortion by socializing private lending risk, encourages inefficient capital allocation to politically connected firms, and establishes precedent for selective industrial policy that undermines free market competition.