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Regulation prevents Canadians from using foreign postal rates when mailing items to Canada from abroad by requiring return or payment of Canadian postage, targeting large quantity mailings and patterns suggesting rate arbitrage.

This protectionist rule inflates mailing costs for Canadians, shields Canada Post from competitive pressure, and creates perverse incentives by criminalizing cost-saving behavior. The unseen costs include reduced business competitiveness, stifled innovation in postal services, and a distortion of market signals that would otherwise drive efficiency improvements.

This regulation establishes the Alberta Egg and Fowl Marketing Board with authority to impose levies on egg producers and regulate interprovincial/export egg trade, including creating reserves and equalizing revenues among producers.

This is a supply management system that artificially restricts egg production and trade, creating higher prices for consumers while limiting market entry for new producers. The equalization mechanism prevents price signals from reaching producers, reducing efficiency and innovation in the egg industry.

These regulations govern postal services for Canadian Forces personnel and civilians abroad, including mail rates, Forces Air Letters, registration, and customs requirements for military post offices and fleet mail offices outside Canada.

Canadians would be worse off if these postal services for military personnel abroad were deleted, as it would disrupt essential communication channels for service members and their families, potentially affecting morale and operational effectiveness.

The Pesticide Residue Compensation Regulations provide a government compensation program for farmers whose agricultural products become unsellable due to pesticide residues. The scheme requires detailed applications, covers up to 80% of product value, and restricts eligibility to Canadian-produced goods.

This regulation socializes private farming risks, creating moral hazard and distorting incentives for contamination prevention and pesticide use. It imposes administrative costs on taxpayers and undermines market-based risk allocation through insurance and tort law. The protectionist 'produced in Canada' requirement further reduces economic efficiency. Private contracts and liability—not government payouts—should determine responsibility for residue losses.

This document consists entirely of repealed sections from a regulation that was abolished by SOR/2006-124, s. 74 and earlier amendments. All provisions (1-57) are marked as repealed and contain no current enforceable requirements.

The regulation is already repealed and therefore obsolete. It imposes no current burden and keeping it on the books serves no purpose other than historical reference, which should be maintained in archives rather than active regulatory databases.

Zoning regulations for Yarmouth Airport in Nova Scotia, establishing height restrictions, approach surfaces, and land use limitations to ensure aviation safety around the airport perimeter

These regulations create arbitrary height restrictions that prevent property owners from using their land to its full potential, distort housing supply in the area, and impose compliance costs on landowners without clear evidence of safety benefits that couldn't be achieved through market-based solutions like insurance or private agreements between airport operators and nearby property owners

These regulations establish expense and advance rules for Parliamentary Secretaries, covering reasonable travel expenses during official duties, accountable advances with monthly reporting requirements, and detailed expense reporting including purpose, itinerary, and specific expenditure categories.

This regulation creates moral hazard by establishing special expense privileges for officials, encourages administrative bureaucracy through complex reporting requirements, and distorts incentives around fiscal responsibility by treating Parliament Secretaries as deserving of special expense treatment rather than subjecting them to standard transparent reimbursement processes. The 'reasonable' expense standards are subjective and open to abuse, setting up a system that separates officials from the normal market discipline of cost-consciousness.

Exempts Canadian National Railway Company from subsection 10(2) of the Official Languages Act for services provided outside Canada, except for services to the travelling public.

Deleting this exemption would impose bilingual requirements on CNR's foreign non-travel services, raising operating costs and reducing international competitiveness. This would increase shipping costs for Canadians and harm the railway's ability to compete abroad. The exemption appropriately limits language obligations to within Canada and for Canadian travelers, while freeing CNR to operate efficiently overseas.

Requires public office holders appointed under Parliament's authority to take an oath or affirmation of faithful duty execution and confidentiality, with prescribed form including 'So help me God' and alternative affirmation permitted.

The oath establishes solemn commitment to duty and confidentiality, reinforcing accountability in public office. Its minimal burden is outweighed by the psychological and ceremonial reinforcement of ethical service. Removal would not enhance liberty or prosperity.

Designates the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources as the responsible minister for administering the Nuclear Liability Act.

Provides clear accountability for nuclear liability administration; deleting would create confusion about ministerial responsibility during critical nuclear incident response, with no offsetting gain in liberty or reduction in economic burden.

This Order authorizes the Commissioner in Council of the Northwest Territories to make Ordinances concerning the making of grants and loans to individuals, thereby enabling territorial legislation for financial assistance programs.

Enables government wealth redistribution that distorts incentives, creates dependency, misallocates resources via the knowledge problem, infringes property rights, and crowds out private charitable and market solutions. Even if currently unused, it invites future overreach and contradicts limited government principles.

The Windsor Airport Zoning Regulations establish height restrictions on buildings, structures, and objects within defined imaginary surfaces around Windsor Airport to prevent obstructions to aircraft takeoff and landing paths. The regulation defines specific approach, horizontal, and transitional surfaces based on International Civil Aviation Organization standards, applies to all lands in a detailed geographic area, and grants the Minister power to order removal of excessive natural growth.

Deleting this regulation would expose Canadians to increased risk of catastrophic aviation accidents, causing loss of life and property. The ex-ante height prohibition achieves safety in a clear, uniform, and cost-effective manner that alternatives like tort liability or negotiated easements cannot match, given the need to coordinate hundreds of landowners and prevent harm before it occurs.

This regulation sets terms and conditions for telegraph and cable message transmission, establishing liability limits for transmission errors, offering optional repeat-back services for extra fees, and allowing written contracts for additional insurance coverage. It applies to companies under CRTC jurisdiction and includes provisions for inter-company message forwarding and time limits for damage claims.

This 19th-century regulation governs an obsolete telegraph industry that no longer exists in Canada. Modern telecommunications operate under entirely different frameworks. The liability limits and fee structures were designed for a monopoly telegraph system, creating unnecessary bureaucratic overhead for a dead technology while providing no benefit to current communications infrastructure.

Establishes airport safety zoning around Whitehorse Airport by defining imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) that restrict building heights to prevent obstructions to aircraft operations.

Deletion would endanger lives by permitting construction in aircraft approach paths. Aviation safety is a public good requiring centralized coordination; private contracts and liability cannot effectively secure airspace due to coordination costs, externalities, and the need for ex-ante prevention rather than post-crash remedies.

Airport zoning regulations establishing height restrictions and approach surfaces around Victoria International Airport to ensure aviation safety and prevent interference with aircraft operations

Aviation safety requires strict height restrictions and approach surface protections to prevent mid-air collisions and ensure safe aircraft operations. The economic costs of a major aviation accident would far exceed any property rights benefits from deregulation.