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Zoning regulations for Timmins Airport establishing height restrictions, approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces to ensure aviation safety and prevent building obstructions near the airport.

Aviation safety requires standardized height restrictions and clear approach paths to prevent mid-air collisions and ensure safe landings/takeoffs. Without these regulations, buildings and natural growth could obstruct flight paths, creating catastrophic safety risks that private property owners cannot effectively coordinate to prevent.

Zoning regulations for Sydney Airport establishing height restrictions, approach surfaces, and land use limitations to ensure aviation safety around the airport perimeter.

These regulations impose costly restrictions on property development and land use without evidence that less restrictive alternatives would compromise safety. The height limits and bird-attracting waste prohibitions create significant economic deadweight loss for property owners while modern aviation technology could achieve the same safety outcomes through voluntary agreements, market-based solutions, or targeted restrictions only where genuinely needed.

Zoning regulations for Sudbury Airport establishing height restrictions and development controls around the airport to ensure aviation safety, including approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces with specific elevation limits for buildings and natural growth.

Aviation safety requires strict height controls around airports to prevent collisions with aircraft during takeoff and landing. These regulations protect both passengers and residents by maintaining clear approach paths and preventing dangerous structures from being built near flight paths.

Establishes height restrictions around Springbank Airport to prevent obstructions that could endanger aircraft. Prohibits buildings/structures from penetrating defined approach, outer, and transitional surfaces. Applies to lands adjacent to the airport within a specified perimeter.

Prevents catastrophic aircraft accidents from obstructions. The regulation addresses a genuine safety hazard with clear, predictable rules that facilitate orderly development while protecting life and property. Deleting it would introduce dangerous uncertainty and rely on ex-post liability that cannot prevent loss of life. The narrow, engineering-based restrictions are a necessary condition for safe airport operations and cannot be efficiently replicated through private contracting given the commons nature of navigable airspace and the catastrophic risks involved.

This regulation establishes protected airspace zones around Saint John Airport, prohibiting structures and tall objects within defined approach, outer, and transitional surfaces. It also bans waste disposal that attracts birds and allows the Minister to order removal of excessive natural growth. The boundaries are precisely defined based on runway configurations and technical aviation safety standards.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because unregulated development in the airport's approach zones would create unacceptable collision risks, potentially causing fatal accidents or forcing the airport's closure. The regulation prevents a tragedy of the commons where thousands of individual land-use decisions could cumulatively destroy vital air infrastructure. Aviation safety requires coordinated ex ante restrictions that liability law or voluntary agreements cannot efficiently achieve, as the coordination costs would be prohibitive and the externalized costs of a single accident are catastrophic.

Establishes zoning restrictions around St. John's (Torbay) Airport to maintain clear airspace by limiting building heights and prohibiting bird-attracting waste disposal, based on defined imaginary surfaces (approach, outer, transitional) extending from runways.

Canadians would be worse off because obstruction-free airspace is critical for aviation safety, preventing catastrophic accidents that cause loss of life, economic disruption, and environmental damage. This regulation achieves its goal through clear, technically precise height restrictions on obstructions and bird-attracting waste, which would be difficult to replicate through private mechanisms due to high transaction costs among numerous landowners, holdout problems, and the inability to adequately price the catastrophic risk of air disasters. The zoning approach provides predictable, enforceable standards that balance property rights with public safety in a way that liability law alone cannot.

Airport zoning regulations establishing height restrictions and land use controls around St. Johns Airport in Quebec to ensure aviation safety by preventing obstructions to flight paths and maintaining clear approach surfaces

Aviation safety requires clear approach paths and height restrictions to prevent collisions and ensure safe aircraft operations. These regulations protect public safety through technical standards that would be difficult to coordinate voluntarily among property owners.

Zoning regulations for St. Hubert Airport in Quebec, establishing approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces to restrict building heights and prevent obstructions to air navigation. Applies to lands adjacent to the airport with specific elevation limits.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it ensures aviation safety by preventing building obstructions near the airport. The regulation achieves its desired outcome of protecting air navigation in a way that would be difficult to coordinate through voluntary agreements or market mechanisms, as safety requires uniform standards across all affected properties.

Regulation sets maximum interest rates for loans under the National Housing Act, with specific rates for different loan types: for section 28 loans (pre-1969: 9.375%; post-1969: 2.25% plus long-term bond yield), and for other sections (17.5% or 16% depending on section). Uses dated references to 1969 and specific quarterly interest periods.

Obsolete: references 1969 cutoff dates, making it irrelevant to current lending. Even if applied today, interest rate caps distort market pricing, reduce credit supply, and interfere with voluntary contracts between lenders and borrowers—creating shortages and harming the very borrowers they intend to help.

The Sault Ste. Marie Airport Zoning Regulations establish safety zoning requirements around the airport, restricting building heights relative to imaginary planes (horizontal, approach, and transitional surfaces) measured from the airport reference point. Key mechanisms include elevation limits (e.g., no structures exceeding approach surfaces by more than 30 feet) and provisions for removing naturally growing obstructions. The regulations were revoked in 1979 (SOR/79-899), rendering them obsolete.

The regulation was revoked in 1979 (SOR/79-899) and no longer in effect. Maintaining obsolete rules imposes unnecessary compliance costs and confusion. Deleting it would eliminate redundant legal text without affecting modern airport safety standards.

Airport zoning regulations for Resolute Bay Airport establishing height restrictions and protected surfaces to ensure aviation safety around the airport

Aviation safety requires clear airspace for takeoff, landing, and navigation. These regulations prevent buildings and structures from interfering with flight paths, which would create direct physical hazards to aircraft and passengers. The costs of aviation accidents far exceed the property development restrictions imposed by these zoning rules.

Retroactively applies Part IV of the National Energy Board Act to all pipeline operators active as of November 2, 1959, bringing existing pipeline operations under federal regulatory oversight without grandfathering.

Retroactive regulation violates legitimate expectations of pipeline operators who made investments based on the regulatory framework in place at the time. It undermines property rights and creates regulatory uncertainty that discourages long-term infrastructure investment. The principle of non-retroactivity is fundamental to rule of law.

The Reserve Forces Training Leave Regulations provide job-protected leave and pay provisions for federal public service employees who are members of the Canadian Forces Reserve, allowing them to undertake military training, duties, and cadet instruction without losing seniority or compensation increases.

Deleting this regulation would undermine Canada's reserve force by deterring skilled public servants from military service due to employment and financial uncertainty, weakening national defense readiness; the regulation achieves its purpose efficiently by standardizing protections across government and balancing civilian/military pay to prevent hardship without improper double-dipping.

Regulation establishing height restrictions around Regina Airport through imaginary safety surfaces (horizontal, approach, transitional) to prevent obstructions to aircraft operations. Prohibits construction or objects exceeding defined elevations, authorizes removal of excessive natural growth, and bans disposal of bird-attracting waste on regulated lands.

Canadians would be dramatically worse off without it: private development near airports would create obstacles causing catastrophic aircraft accidents with massive loss of life. Achieving equivalent safety through after-the-fact litigation or private bargaining is impossible; this regulation prevents the externality proactively with objective technical standards that would be prohibitively costly to replicate through alternative means.

The Estates Regulations establish a government monopoly for administering the estates of deceased Canadian Forces members. They create a Director of Estates (a barrister with 10 years standing) with exclusive executor-like powers, mandate a preferential payment order for 'service debts' (quarters, mess accounts, service clothing), and provide legal immunity for those following the regulations. The Minister's decisions are final and binding, and no person has a right to claim against the estate.

This regulation creates an unnecessary government monopoly that overrides normal probate law, weakens property rights, and provides insufficient due process. The military could recover legitimate debts as any other creditor through Canada's existing private probate system. The exclusive jurisdiction ('to the exclusion of all other authorities') prevents families from choosing private estate administrators, while the 'no right to claim' language and final Ministerial decisions reduce accountability. These distortions serve no compelling public interest that cannot be achieved through ordinary legal channels, and instead concentrate power in a government-appointed official with minimal oversight.