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Establishes obstruction-free zones around Villeneuve Airport by prohibiting structures, objects, or growth that penetrate defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and bans waste accumulation attracting birds. Aims to ensure safe aircraft operations.

Deletion would endanger flight safety, risking crashes and economic loss from airport closure. Voluntary easements with hundreds of landowners are practically impossible due to coordination and holdout problems, making this minimal necessary regulation.

Zoning regulations for Fort Smith Airport that restrict building heights and land use around the airport to ensure aviation safety by controlling approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces, while also prohibiting bird-attracting waste disposal on airport-adjacent lands.

These regulations impose significant restrictions on property rights and development without clear evidence of safety necessity. Modern aviation technology and pilot training can handle most obstacles, and the blanket prohibitions on development and waste disposal create artificial scarcity, reduce property values, and prevent land from being used for its highest economic value, all while shifting costs to property owners who bear no responsibility for airport operations.

Imposes a $60 fee for CMHC inspections to issue certificates confirming construction start of multiple-unit residential buildings.

Adds regulatory cost and bureaucratic hurdle to housing development, reducing supply and affordability; the certificate's purpose provides no clear public benefit that outweighs its contribution to Canada's housing crisis.

Establishes the Manitoba Egg Producers' Marketing Board with authority to regulate interprovincial and export marketing of eggs and collect levies from Manitoba producers for board expenses, reserves, and equalization among producers.

Creates a government-backed producer cartel that restricts supply, inflates egg prices, violates producers' property rights to market their product freely, and imposes interprovincial trade barriers. The unseen costs include deadweight loss to consumers, barriers to market entry, distorted resource allocation, and rent-seeking behavior—all transferring wealth from millions of Canadian consumers to a small group of producers.

Allows the Minister of National Revenue to sell uniform manufacturing materials (clothing, goods, accoutrements) to private contractors on condition they use the property to manufacture uniforms for the Crown under contract. Very narrow administrative regulation for government procurement/surplus disposal.

This regulation imposes no restrictions on liberty or private activity; it merely provides a clear mechanism for the government to transfer specific property to contractors. Deleting it would create procurement inefficiencies and uncertainty without advancing any free market objective. The regulation achieves its operational purpose efficiently and at minimal cost.

This regulation establishes a 2-cent per dozen levy on Manitoba egg producers for eggs marketed in interprovincial and export trade, with payment due within 7 days of marketing to the Manitoba Egg Producers' Marketing Board.

This marketing board levy creates a cartel-like system that restricts supply, raises egg prices for consumers, and reduces competition. The unseen costs include higher food prices for Canadian families and reduced market entry for new producers. Interprovincial trade barriers prevent efficient egg distribution across provinces, harming both producers and consumers.

Airport zoning regulation for Yellowknife Airport that prohibits construction or natural growth penetrating defined imaginary airspace surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) and bans waste accumulation attractive to birds on adjacent lands. Establishes protected zones to ensure aviation safety.

Removing this regulation would create unacceptable risks to human life from aircraft collisions with obstacles or bird strikes. These are catastrophic externalities that tort law cannot effectively deter after the fact. The narrow land-use restrictions are justified by the compelling government interest in aviation safety and cannot be replicated by private ordering.

Regulation establishes imaginary safety surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) around Fredericton Airport to prevent obstructions to aircraft. Prohibits construction penetrating these surfaces, requires removal of overgrown vegetation, and bans waste disposal that could attract birds (bird strike hazard).

Canadians would be worse off without it because removal would create unacceptable risk of catastrophic aircraft accidents from ground obstructions. The regulation achieves safety in a way that market alternatives cannot: negotiating with hundreds of individual landowners would be prohibitively costly, tort liability after a crash is too late, and clear ex-ante rules provide certainty essential for safe airport operations. The restriction on property rights is justified by the severe externalities of aviation accidents affecting passengers, crew, and people on the ground.

Regulations governing the National Research Council of Canada's ability to sell non-surplus research materials and loan scientific equipment to research institutions, universities, hospitals, and government entities. Establishes authorization requirements, pricing mechanisms, loan terms, and liability provisions.

These regulations create unnecessary bureaucratic barriers to scientific collaboration and equipment sharing. The authorization requirements, value limits, and liability provisions add administrative costs and delays without clear public benefit, while restricting the efficient allocation of research resources.

Regulates part-time employment in the federal public service, mandating recruitment from government employment centres, establishing call-back lists for former part-time workers, and requiring one day's notice before termination.

The recruitment mandate artificially restricts departments from accessing the full labor market, creating inefficiencies and likely hiring less-qualified candidates. The call-back system entrenches employment rights that distort labor allocation, preventing merit-based hiring. This outdated framework adds bureaucratic overhead that raises taxpayer costs while reducing the quality of public service delivery through misallocation of human resources.

This Order approves excluding part-time federal workers (those working ≤1/3 normal hours or ≤15 hours/week) from the Public Service Employment Act's employment protections and regulations.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted: Removing this exclusion would impose full-time employment regulations on part-time workers, reducing labor market flexibility, decreasing part-time job opportunities, increasing administrative costs, and preventing efficient matching of labor supply to needs. The exclusion appropriately recognizes the distinct nature of part-time work and preserves necessary flexibility for both government employers and employees seeking non-traditional work arrangements.

This Order establishes fees for telecommunications and electronic maintenance services provided by the Department of Transport under the authority of a 1981 Order in Council, with specific fees listed in a schedule.

Sustaining government provision of these services, even with fee recovery, crowds out private sector competition and innovation; the 1981 agreement is outdated and perpetuates inefficiencies, distorting the market and preventing more efficient private alternatives.

Regulation defines 'federal property' subject to Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act, sets criteria for levy calculations (cost, rooms, occupancy, area), and lists numerous specific exemptions and inclusions for various entities including Crown corporations, diplomatic missions, indigenous housing, and the Pickering Airport site.

Complex tax system with special exemptions distorts federal property decisions, invites rent-seeking, and creates administrative bloat; replaces it with simple fee-for-service model to charge only for actual municipal services consumed, eliminating arbitrary assessments and special interest carve-outs.

This regulation prescribes the form and submission requirements for companies to file a Notice of Objection to assessments made under subsection 26(1.1) of the Northern Pipeline Act. It requires two signed copies to be sent by registered mail to the Minister within 30 days of the assessment notice, with provisions for consolidated filings when identical facts and reasons apply across multiple objections.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because it provides a clear, predictable, and orderly mechanism for pipeline companies to exercise their right to appeal government assessments. Deleting it would create administrative chaos, increase litigation over procedural compliance, and undermine due process. The minimal costs (registered mail, form completion) are vastly outweighed by the benefits of a standardized, fair appeals process that maintains rule of law and regulatory certainty for major infrastructure projects.

Procedural regulation for Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act, allowing interim payments to taxing authorities when final determination is delayed (50-90 days) and establishing overpayment recovery through set-off or debt collection.

Canadians would face disrupted local services if municipalities couldn't receive timely interim payments while awaiting final determinations. The regulation provides predictable, efficient administration that balances cash flow needs with fiscal accountability—hard to replace without creating bureaucratic delays or payment gaps.