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Establishes height restrictions and land use prohibitions around St. Catharines Airport through imaginary approach, outer, and transitional surfaces to ensure aviation safety. Prohibits construction exceeding surface elevations, mandates removal of excessive natural growth, and bans waste disposal that attracts birds.

Imposes uncompensated takings and arbitrary height restrictions on private property, reducing land supply and violating property rights. Market-based solutions like air rights purchases, liability rules, and voluntary covenants could achieve aviation safety more efficiently without the deadweight loss, knowledge problems, and suppressed development of central planning.

Regulation authorizes senior RCMP officers to stop pay and allowances for members suspended from duty under the RCMP Act.

Canadians would be worse off because deletion would permit suspended members to continue receiving pay while not working, wasting public funds and reducing accountability for misconduct.

Regulation sets mechanism for interim offshore revenue payments from federal to Nova Scotia government during transition period before specified parts of the Canada-Nova Scotia Oil and Gas Agreement Act took effect.

Obsolete interim regulation that should be repealed; maintaining dead letter regulations wastes resources and creates legal uncertainty.

This regulation establishes a mandatory levy system for Manitoba turkey producers, requiring them to pay 1.5 cents per kilogram live weight on turkeys sold in interprovincial or export trade to the Manitoba Turkey Producers' Marketing Board. The levies must be paid within seven days of sale, with collection options for producers or purchasers.

This levy creates a mandatory cartel that restricts supply, raises turkey prices for consumers, and imposes compliance costs on producers. It represents economic planning that benefits a small group of producers at the expense of consumers and market efficiency, with no clear public benefit justification.

Establishes airport obstacle limitation surfaces around Dryden Airport, prohibiting construction or natural growth that exceeds defined elevation limits, and banning waste disposal that attracts birds to protect aviation safety.

Deleting this regulation would endanger lives by allowing obstructions in approach paths, increase crash risk, and potentially render the airport unusable. The targeted, engineering-based restrictions on property rights are justified to prevent catastrophic harm to passengers, ground citizens, and the regional economy dependent on safe air transportation. Private liability alone is insufficient to deter such high-impact hazards.

This Order defines 'designated areas' for each province and territory as all land outside incorporated cities, metropolitan areas, towns, or villages with populations over 5,000 (based on the decennial census). These designations trigger specific provisions of the National Housing Act (subsections 34.121(2), 34.161(2), 34.17(1), and 55(7)).

It creates arbitrary geographic distinctions that distort housing development incentives, contributing to supply problems. The 5,000-population threshold is a government-imposed boundary that misallocates resources, encourages regulatory arbitrage, and codifies NIMBY-style exclusion into law—contrary to free-market principles that would allow housing supply to respond organically to demand.

Excludes specific offshore grid coordinates from the Canada-Nova Scotia Oil and Gas Agreement Act, establishing jurisdictional boundaries for offshore resource management.

Removing this order would create legal uncertainty about which regulatory framework applies to these specific offshore areas, potentially disrupting existing agreements, property rights, and investment certainty. Clear jurisdictional boundaries are essential for stable resource development and contractual enforcement in the offshore oil and gas sector. Arbitrary grid exclusions are preferable to the greater chaos of undefined boundaries.

Regulation establishes safety zones around Muskoka Airport by defining imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and prohibits construction or objects exceeding these elevations. It also bans waste disposal that could attract birds and authorizes Minister-directed removal of excessive natural growth. Based on 1983 technical aviation standards.

This regulation prevents real, physical harm to innocent third parties—aircraft crashes caused by obstacles endanger passengers, airport workers, and surrounding communities. The restrictions are narrow, engineering-based, and protect essential infrastructure. Without them, landowners could recklessly endanger lives and commerce. The regulation achieves what tort law cannot: preventative, uniform safety standards ex-ante. Canadians would be catastrophically worse off with increased aviation accident risk.

Occupational health and safety regulations specific to uranium mining facilities in Ontario. Imposes compliance obligations on licensees, owners, employers, constructors, supervisors, workers and suppliers. Grants rights and powers under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, specifies which Act provisions do not apply, and incorporates by reference numerous other health and safety regulations (benzene, asbestos, X-ray safety, etc.).

Uranium mining involves extreme hazards including radiation, radon gas, and heavy metal contamination that pose severe risks to worker and public health. This specialized regulatory framework ensures that the unique dangers of uranium operations are addressed beyond standard workplace rules. Removing it would expose workers to preventable radiation sickness, cancer, and communities to environmental contamination. The regulation achieves its safety goals by setting specific standards, clarifying responsibilities, and leveraging existing proven safety protocols—a coherent framework that would be difficult to replace through market mechanisms given the catastrophic nature of radiation harms.

Canadian Ownership and Control Determination Regulations, 1984 - Establishes rules for determining Canadian ownership rates of entities for foreign investment review purposes, including definitions of key terms, calculation methods, and special provisions for small applicants and pension trusts.

Creates complex regulatory burden on businesses, distorts investment decisions through artificial ownership requirements, and interferes with free market capital allocation - all costs that harm Canadian competitiveness without clear economic benefit.

Withdraws specific lands on Bathurst Island, NWT from disposal under the Territorial Lands Act and from the Canada Oil and Gas Act to protect wildlife, wetlands, and associated habitat. Three schedules classify different parcels with slightly different withdrawal mechanisms but same conservation purpose.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because it would expose a fragile Arctic ecosystem to potentially irreversible damage from industrial development, destroying critical wildlife habitat with intrinsic and long-term value. The regulation achieves its desired outcome effectively by creating a legally defined protected area that would be difficult to replicate through private means, given the public good nature of wildlife conservation and the challenges of coordinating voluntary preservation across such a remote and sensitive region.

Grants the African Development Bank and its representatives, officials, and experts legal capacities and privileges/immunities in Canada as specified in the UN Convention and the Bank's Agreement, while ensuring Canadian citizens remain subject to Canadian laws.

This regulation facilitates international development cooperation by ensuring the African Development Bank can operate effectively in Canada, which serves Canada's diplomatic and economic interests in supporting African development while maintaining Canadian sovereignty over taxation and legal obligations.

This Order requires the Peace River-Liard Regional District to pay fees for water supply and sewage disposal services provided by Fort St. John Airport, pursuant to a 1983 agreement between the Regional District and Canada. The fees are set out in a schedule.

Deleting this would create administrative uncertainty around payment for existing services without addressing any meaningful regulatory burden. It is a technical fee schedule that does not restrict liberty, distort markets, reduce supply, or impose hidden costs. The regulation merely implements a pre-existing intergovernmental agreement and has no discernible negative consequences on prosperity or competitiveness.

Mandatory levy on Alberta hog producers selling in interprovincial or export markets. $1.00 per hog over 50kg, $0.25 per hog under 50kg, payable monthly to Alberta Pork Producers Development Corporation. Funds Board's activities related to pork marketing and development.

Forced levy imposes hidden tax on farmers, increasing costs and distorting market incentives. Violates interprovincial trade freedom by creating financial barriers. Funds government-controlled board rather than voluntary industry associations. Unnecessary regulatory burden that reduces competitiveness and liberty.

Sets fees for a government-run urea formaldehyde insulation training program: contractor enrolment $20, training package $25, course fee $100, re-exam $15, contractor registration $195. Targets contractors and homeowners.

Government should not provide product-specific training, which creates a subsidy for urea formaldehyde insulation (a known health hazard), distorts markets, imposes unnecessary bureaucracy, and raises barriers to entry. Private liability and certification mechanisms can address safety more efficiently without state intervention.