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1970s-era compensation program for transportation companies (highway, non-federally regulated railways, water carriers) that lost revenue due to federal rail rate freeze. Claims required detailed shipping records; payments capped at $13M total.

This obsolete subsidy program compensates private companies for revenue lost due to government price controls, distorting market competition and creating moral hazard. Taxpayers bear the cost of regulatory mistakes while inefficient business models are perpetuated rather than adapting to market forces.

Remission of firearms licence fees for individuals who held or renewed licences between December 1, 1998 and the order's coming into force, including specific provisions for minors' possession licences and exceptions for revoked or refused licences.

Administrative fee remission creates no net benefit - it merely redistributes costs within the firearms licensing system. The regulation adds complexity without addressing any market failure or public safety concern. Resources spent administering these exceptions would be better allocated to core regulatory functions or returned to taxpayers.

A 2006 regulation granting a one-time remission of $485 from a $975 immigration fee for fees paid or permanent residency acquired during a specific window in 2006, requiring repayment to the payer.

This is a time-bound, one-time administrative measure from 2006 that would have already been fully executed or expired. It imposes no ongoing regulatory burden, restricts no liberty or property, and serves no current policy purpose. Keeping it adds unnecessary legal complexity with zero benefit; any remaining claims could be handled through simple administrative processes without statutory authority.

This is not a regulation but a specific land parcel description identifying Lot 626, Group 814 in Hay River, Northwest Territories, referencing survey records and land titles registration.

If this specific parcel identification were deleted from the regulatory framework where it appears, legal certainty regarding which property is subject to applicable regulations would be lost, creating ambiguity in property rights and regulatory enforcement. The precise metes and bounds description is foundational to any land-based regulation.

The Minister recommends not listing three Atlantic Cod populations and Coho Salmon under SARA, citing severe socio-economic costs ($82M loss, 9,764 jobs) and adequate existing conservation measures; six other species assessments are returned to COSEWIC due to scientific flaws.

Deleting this decision would impose SARA prohibitions that cripple coastal fisheries and communities without guaranteed ecological benefit, while current management already protects stocks effectively.

Temporary land withdrawal order freezing disposal of territorial lands in the Nunavik Marine Region to facilitate settlement of an Inuit land claim agreement. Exempts all pre-existing mineral and petroleum rights with clear sunset date of September 30, 2008.

Expired regulation with sunset date of September 30, 2008. Keeping obsolete laws on books creates legal uncertainty, administrative burden, and forces citizens to navigate invalid rules. Even when active, this narrow time-limited measure merely paused new disposals while grandfathering all existing claims—a minimal but justifiable temporary interference to settle Indigenous title claims and prevent future conflicts. The regulation's purpose has long since been fulfilled or become moot.

Authorizes one-time $20,000 ex-gratia payments to surviving spouses/beneficiaries of Chinese Head Tax payers, with application deadline of March 31, 2008.

Obsolete: application deadline expired in 2008, scheme has served its purpose. Dead-letter regulations clutter statute books and undermine rule of law. Original head tax violated liberty and property rights this limited redress sought to remedy.

This Order authorizes one-time $24,000 ex gratia payments to veterans who participated in chemical warfare testing (1940-1974), with applications due by Feb 28, 2007 and payments completed by Mar 31, 2007; includes distribution rules for deceased veterans and excludes prior program recipients.

Obsolete (2007 deadlines); retention adds regulatory clutter and sets precedent for ad hoc compensation without legal accountability, undermining fiscal discipline and rule of law.

This regulation lists designated terrorist entities under Canadian law, including organizations such as Al-Qaida, Hamas, FARC, LTTE, and others engaged in Terrorism. It enables legal measures like asset freezing, criminalization of membership/funding, and border controls.

The state has a core, legitimate role in protecting life, liberty, and property from violent aggression. These organizations explicitly use coercion, terror, and violence to achieve political ends. Removing this list would dismantle essential legal tools to prevent attacks, disrupt financing, and protect Canadians from groups that reject the very liberal order of non-aggression and rule of law that Better Canada seeks to preserve.

Bilateral social security coordination agreement between Canada and Lithuania covering pension systems (Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan, Lithuanian social insurance), establishing contribution allocation rules, totalizing creditable periods for benefit eligibility, and setting cross-border payment and administrative procedures.

Extends welfare state reach internationally, creates permanent bureaucratic coordination, and entrenches systems that distort savings decisions and reduce personal responsibility. Unseen costs include moral hazard from portable benefits, precedent for numerous similar treaties multiplying complexity, and locking in social security models that suppress private retirement alternatives.

Agreement between Canada and Latvia for social security cooperation, covering pension coordination, benefit eligibility across borders, and administrative procedures for persons who have contributed to either country's social security systems.

Canadians benefit from international pension agreements that protect retirement security for those who worked in multiple countries. This agreement ensures people who contributed to both systems receive coordinated benefits rather than losing coverage due to mobility.

International social security agreement between Canada and Estonia that coordinates their respective pension and benefit systems. It determines which country's legislation applies to cross-border workers to avoid double coverage or gaps, allows for 'totalization' of contribution periods to qualify for benefits, ensures benefits are paid regardless of residence, and establishes administrative cooperation mechanisms between the two countries' social security institutions.

Canadians would be worse off without this treaty because it prevents double taxation on cross-border workers, allows them to qualify for pensions by combining contribution periods from both countries, and ensures they receive benefits they've earned regardless of where they retire. These protections for mobile workers are difficult to achieve through private market solutions alone, as they require coordination between sovereign states to prevent gaps and overlaps in social coverage.

The Species at Risk Act (SARA) establishes a federal process for listing wildlife species at risk and imposing protective restrictions on activities that harm them or their habitats, often limiting land use, economic development, and resource harvesting.

SARA infringes private property rights, imposes significant compliance costs on landowners and industries, and creates perverse incentives (e.g., preemptive habitat destruction to avoid regulation). It crowds out market-based and voluntary conservation, centralizes expertise over local knowledge, and generates economic harm to rural and Indigenous communities—all while relying on imperfect science and political discretion, leading to arbitrary and often counterproductive outcomes.

This Order-in-Council authorizes one-time ex-gratia payments of $20,000 to Chinese Canadians who paid the discriminatory head tax (1885-1923) or their descendants, provided they were alive on February 6, 2006, and applied by March 31, 2008. It's a redress measure for historical state-sanctioned racial discrimination in immigration policy.

This is not an economic regulation but a targeted, one-time restitution for a grave historical injustice that violated equal protection under the law—a foundational principle of liberal society. The Chinese head tax was explicit state discrimination that restricted liberty and property rights based on race; providing compensation does not create ongoing market distortions, regulatory burdens, or unintended consequences typical of harmful regulations. Achieving this specific moral and symbolic redress without such a mechanism would be impossible—it represents a bounded acknowledgment of past wrongdoing rather than an intervention in present economic activity.

Grants remission of repatriation costs, emergency medical fees, and passport/consular fees for Canadian victims of the 2004 tsunami, with claims due by December 26, 2006.

Obsolete: deadline passed in 2006. Even when active, it represented preferential treatment that distorted incentives, added administrative complexity, and set a problematic precedent for politically-motivated fee waivers rather than neutral, general disaster relief frameworks.