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This regulation governs railway passenger service contracts between the Minister of Transport, VIA Rail Canada Inc., and railway companies (CN/CP). It establishes approval processes, implementation requirements, subsidiary service requests, payment mechanisms based on estimated costs vs revenues, financial incentive measures, and audit/reporting obligations. The regulation aims to ensure cost-effective passenger rail services while maintaining minimum service levels and quality standards.

This regulation creates a complex bureaucratic framework that distorts market incentives in passenger rail services. By mandating estimated-cost-based payments regardless of actual performance, it removes competitive pressure to reduce costs and improve service quality. The extensive government oversight and approval requirements prevent VIA from responding flexibly to market demands, while the financial incentive structure encourages cost-plus behavior rather than efficiency. This regulatory burden directly contributes to Canada's uncompetitive passenger rail system compared to private alternatives.

A 1978 by-law temporarily prohibiting the filing of wage discrimination complaints under section 11 of the Act until June 1, 1978, effectively imposing a moratorium on pay equity enforcement.

The regulation is obsolete, having expired over 45 years ago. Even when active, it unjustly delayed justice for victims of wage discrimination and interfered with the enforcement of contracts and property rights. Temporary moratoriums on legal recourse undermine the rule of law and create regulatory uncertainty that harms both workers and honest employers by allowing potential violations to go unchallenged.

Provides direct loans to Indians and businesses contributing to Indian economic development, with special provisions for security and interest rates due to Indian Act restrictions on property ownership.

Creates a two-tier credit system that disadvantages Indians by limiting their access to normal market financing, perpetuates dependency through government lending, and violates equal treatment under law by providing special rules based on race.

This regulation establishes a federal loan guarantee program administered by the Minister of Indian Affairs to guarantee bank loans for business enterprises that contribute to the economic development of Status Indians. The program covers loans up to certain limits ($100,000 requires Finance approval; $500,000 total exposure requires Treasury Board approval), requires banks to take security, and outlines procedures for defaults, claims, and assignments. The Minister maintains a registry and files annual parliamentary reports.

This regulation distorts credit markets by having the government guarantee private loans, creating moral hazard that encourages risky lending and malinvestment. It administratively picks winners based on subjective 'economic development' criteria and ethnicity-testing, interfering with voluntary market allocation of capital. The bureaucracy required to administer guarantees, track exposure, and approve exceptions imposes hidden costs on taxpayers while likely producing inferior outcomes compared to private lending under sound money. Even with noble intentions, government-directed credit cannot create wealth; it merely redistributes it while suppressing the price signals and accountability that ensure capital serves real consumer demands.

Water power development regulations for Astoria River in Jasper National Park, Alberta, granting Alberta Power Limited license extension rights and 20-year term extensions upon application and undertaking.

Obsolete hydroelectric regulation for a specific 1958 project that likely no longer exists; regulatory overhead for legacy infrastructure serves no current public purpose while maintaining unnecessary bureaucratic complexity.

A $500 grant for first-time homebuyers of new housing units (occupied after Oct 31, 1974), phased out for higher-priced homes above CMHC's minimum insured loan threshold. Requires building code compliance, minimum 5-year interest, and for mobile homes, specific CSA standards.

This subsidy artificially inflates housing demand, raising prices for all Canadians. Tax funding imposes deadweight losses on the economy. It distorts market signals, misallocates resources, and creates administrative burdens. As a 1974 relic, it exemplifies unnecessary government interference that should be eliminated to restore market-driven housing supply and affordability.

This order grants special exceptions to Northern Mineral Exploration Assistance Regulations for Teslin Exploration Limited, allowing license transfer to Vittorio Ghitti and postponing repayment of a government grant with 10% interest, secured by specific coal licenses.

Creates regulatory favoritism by granting special exemptions to one company, distorts market competition, and establishes precedent for government picking winners through selective regulatory relief.

Enables pre-April 1964 Yukon territorial employees who later joined the federal public service pension plan to buy back their prior service at double cost for pension calculation.

Obsolete: targets a vanishingly small historical cohort, adding regulatory clutter with no meaningful current benefit. Keeping it perpetuates inequitable government pension privileges that distort labor markets and crowd out private retirement solutions, undermining intertemporal fairness and fiscal discipline.

Regulation establishes a Foreign Claims Commission to adjudicate claims by Canadian citizens against Czechoslovakia for property nationalized before April 1973. Provides procedures for filing, evidence submission, and award determination, funded by payments from the Czech government under a 1973 agreement.

Obsolete and irrelevant: Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993, claim filing deadline passed in 1973, and any associated fund would have been exhausted decades ago. The regulation serves no practical purpose, creates unnecessary legal complexity, and its original flaws—including extreme temporal and geographical specificity—make it a candidate for repeal.

Targeted loan program allowing Minister to provide housing assistance to a specific Indigenous individual for off-reserve condominium purchase, applying broader Indigenous housing regulations to these loans

Government-created privileges violate core libertarian tenets of liberty, equal protection, and free-market coordination, sacrificing broader prosperity for narrow, politically favored gains

Establishes a fund to distribute proceeds from Romanian property seized during WWII and provides for payments to holders of Romanian bonds notified by Dec 14, 1971, with deadlines by Dec 31, 1972.

Obsolete regulation with expired deadlines; no current claims can be made. It serves no purpose and creates legal clutter. The original $40,000 cap and administrative process were arbitrary and inefficient.

This regulation establishes a framework for settling Canadian claims against Romania related to property nationalization and Treaty of Peace obligations, creating a specialized commission, fund, and claims process with specific eligibility criteria and payment mechanisms.

This regulation addresses Cold War-era financial disputes that are now obsolete - the claims process has concluded, the fund has been distributed, and the administrative apparatus is no longer needed. Keeping such specialized regulatory structures creates unnecessary government overhead and prevents resources from being reallocated to current priorities.

A 1971-1976 regulatory framework establishing a claims commission to compensate Canadian citizens for nationalized Polish property or debts, using a special government fund funded by Polish payments, with eligibility based on citizenship and strict documentation deadlines.

This regulation creates a complex administrative bureaucracy to handle historical property claims that should be resolved through private legal channels. The system imposes significant government oversight costs, creates artificial deadlines that may exclude legitimate claims, and uses taxpayer funds for what is essentially a private compensation scheme. The unintended costs include bureaucratic overhead, delayed justice for claimants, and government entanglement in private property disputes that could be handled through normal legal processes.

This regulation establishes a framework for settling foreign claims against Hungary by Canadian citizens, creating a Foreign Claims Commission to assess claims related to property nationalization, insurance debts, banking shares, and treaty obligations, with a special fund for payments and specific eligibility and payment rules.

This regulation addresses historical claims from a Cold War-era agreement that no longer serves current Canadian interests. The administrative costs of maintaining this specialized commission and fund likely exceed any remaining claims, and the resolution of these 50+ year-old disputes should be handled through standard diplomatic channels rather than maintaining a permanent bureaucratic structure.

This regulation defines pay and allowances for pension calculations under the Defence Service Pension Continuation Act for male military personnel below certain warrant officer ranks who served after September 30, 1966. It freezes allowance rates as of 1966 and deems eligible personnel to have received specific amounts for pension purposes.

Keeping this obsolete regulation imposes significant costs: it entrenches gender discrimination, freezes 1966 rates for decades-later service creating vast inequities, and adds complex 'deeming' rules that distort retirement planning. The administrative burden of maintaining archaic provisions and the legal vulnerability of explicit gender bias outweigh any purported benefit. Canadians would be better served with a simplified, contemporary pension system applying equal standards.