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Regulation identifies specific land lots (1007–1024) in a survey quadrant near Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, referencing official Canada Lands Surveys Records and a land titles filing.

Site-specific land restrictions arbitrarily prevent productive use of property, reducing supply of housing, commerce, and innovation. The unseen costs include lost wealth creation, artificial scarcity, and the inability of central planners to allocate land as efficiently as a free market.

Land description identifying specific lots (371-378) in Aklavik, NWT, referencing survey records and land titles. This is administrative metadata, not a regulation.

Not a regulation—merely a land parcel description imposing no requirements, restrictions, or costs. Deleting it has no effect on liberty, prosperity, or competitiveness because it creates zero regulatory burden.

Legal land description identifying a specific parcel of land (Lot 11, Block 12B, Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, NWT) using registered survey plan number 56088 and land titles filing number 607. This system provides precise, legally recognized boundaries for property rights and transactions.

Property rights are foundational to liberty, private property, and wealth creation. This land description system eliminates uncertainty, enables voluntary exchange, facilitates financing, and prevents disputes. Without it, property markets would collapse, investment would cease, and the very concept of ownership would become meaningless. The system achieves its purpose with remarkable efficiency and simplicity; any alternative would be less precise, more costly, and create greater legal instability. Canadians would be dramatically worse off without this bedrock institution of clear title.

Special tax remission for Bridgestone/Firestone Canada Inc. on tire imports from May 1988 to December 1997, conditioned on continued tire manufacturing in Canada.

Cronyist corporate welfare that distorts competition, violates equal treatment under law, and sets dangerous precedent for special-interest tax breaks. Costs include unfair advantage, regulatory capture, and corruption of free-market principles.

A federal tax remission order that reduces tax liability for certain non-residents and Quebec-connected individuals by substituting a more favorable calculation of Quebec-source income.

It creates inequitable tax treatment, adds complexity, and distorts incentives by granting special breaks to specific groups tied to Quebec, violating the principle of a neutral, simple tax system that treats all taxpayers equally.

Identifies specific land parcels in New Brunswick totaling approximately 1,769.5 hectares as 'Portobello Creek' with no regulatory provisions, restrictions, or mechanisms included.

This document contains no regulatory content and serves no purpose other than as a land description. Keeping it as a 'regulation' adds unnecessary complexity and confusion to the regulatory corpus without achieving any legitimate objective. It imposes zero costs on Canadians but creates administrative burden through its mere existence.

Agreement between Canada and Dominica to coordinate social security benefits, allowing for benefit portability, totalization of creditable periods, and mutual recognition of social security contributions between the two countries for pension, disability, survivor, and other benefits.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because it ensures retirement security for citizens who worked in Dominica, prevents double taxation of contributions, and protects pension rights for Canadians living abroad. The agreement provides essential cross-border social protection that would be difficult to replicate bilaterally.

This Direction mandates the free distribution of four physical copies of all Acts of Parliament to parliamentary committee chairpersons to aid in statutory instrument scrutiny.

The regulation enforces an outdated paper-based distribution system incurring unnecessary printing and handling costs. A digital approach would achieve the same oversight objectives more efficiently, freeing resources for higher-value uses and aligning with modern sustainability practices.

Remission order granting customs duty relief to Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. for smelting equipment purchased for their Bécancour, Quebec smelter, conditional on claim submission by December 31, 1989.

Special interest tax relief distorts market competition, creates precedent for politically-motivated exemptions, and undermines equal treatment under tax law while providing no broader economic benefit beyond the single recipient.

Provides remission of income tax, penalties, and interest for individuals with Indian status (as defined by the Indian Act) where the assessment's statutory limitation period expired before 1988 and the amounts remain unpaid.

Discriminatory tax treatment based on ethnicity violates equality before the law, creates administrative burdens, and perpetuates outdated identity-based distinctions with no contemporary justification.

1989 temporary order waiving merit-based hiring and appeal rights for air traffic control positions under specific programs, expired 1991.

Expired over 30 years ago; not current law. Even if revived, it undermines fair competition and due process in public service appointments for critical safety roles.

Mandates distribution of four free copies of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 to any parliamentary committee established for reviewing statutory instruments, once available.

Ensures legislative oversight committees have access to consolidated statutes for effective review of statutory instruments, supporting parliamentary accountability without creating market distortions or regulatory burdens.

General Export Permit Ex. 18 authorizes temporary (≤3 months) export of portable personal computers and associated software from Canada, conditional on no technology transfer and exclusive business/education use by the exporter. Exports to Area Control List countries are prohibited and require a specific customs declaration.

Imposes compliance costs and legal uncertainty on routine international travel, chilling business and education. Overbroad 'no transfer' restriction and arbitrary country bans distort trade and reduce Canadian competitiveness without proportional security benefit, reflecting the knowledge problem of bureaucratic control over private property.

This order grants a specific, time-limited remission of customs duties and sales tax to Goodyear Canada Inc. for tire imports between 1987-1997, with conditions including continued Canadian manufacturing, $12.6M annual duty cap, and two-year claim deadline.

This targeted tax break creates market distortion by favoring one company over competitors, reduces government revenue without clear public benefit, and sets a precedent for regulatory favoritism that undermines competitive neutrality.

Directs distribution of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 to specified persons/classes without charge after availability.

Obsolete administrative directive for distributing physical statute books in 1985 format. Modern digital access makes this unnecessary, and it imposes costs on government for printing/distributing outdated legal documents.