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Extends the Government Vessels Discipline Act to civilian crews on Canadian Forces auxiliary vessels, ensuring military-style discipline applies to all personnel on these government-owned military support vessels.

Deleting this would create a discipline gap on auxiliary vessels, compromising operational readiness and security. It achieves its outcome efficiently by leveraging existing legal infrastructure rather than creating a new regulatory scheme.

Regulates civilian dental treatment for Canadian Forces personnel requiring authorization, emergency exceptions, and payment structures.

Creates unnecessary bureaucratic barriers to dental care access, increases costs through authorization delays and restricted supply, and suppresses private sector efficiency without demonstrably improving outcomes.

Traffic and property regulations for National Capital Commission properties, covering vehicle operation, parking, speed limits, commercial vehicle restrictions, and general conduct rules on Commission land including Gatineau Park.

Creates unnecessary bureaucratic control over interprovincial traffic and property use, restricting mobility and commerce in the National Capital Region. The commercial vehicle restrictions and permit requirements add costs and delays for legitimate business activities without clear safety benefits.

Quebec Airport Zoning Regulations establish height restrictions and approach surfaces around Quebec Airport to ensure aviation safety by controlling building heights and land use within designated areas.

Aviation safety requires clear approach paths and height restrictions to prevent collisions and ensure safe aircraft operations. Removing these regulations would create dangerous conditions for air travel and potentially catastrophic accidents.

Establishes obstacle limitation zones (horizontal, approach, and transitional surfaces) around Prince George Airport to prevent structures from interfering with aircraft operations. Defines precise geographic boundaries and elevation limits for these imaginary safety surfaces.

Canadians would be worse off due to increased risk of catastrophic aircraft accidents causing loss of life and economic disruption. The zoning achieves safety efficiently through clear ex-ante boundaries, whereas private contracts would face coordination failures and holdouts, and liability-only approaches fail to prevent harm before it occurs.

A subsidy program providing transportation and storage payments for feed grain (rye, grain corn, screenings, sample grain) used as livestock feed. The transportation subsidies had multiple sunset dates ending January 9, 1996, while storage subsidies for grain stored in Eastern Canada persist with fixed per-tonne rates ($2.95/wheat, $5.20/oats, $3.69/barley). Payments require record-keeping and proof grains are fed to livestock.

This is a market-distorting subsidy that uses taxpayer funds to artificially lower transportation and storage costs for specific agricultural producers. It interferes with price signals that would otherwise allocate resources efficiently, creates dependency on government handouts, and picks winners in the agricultural sector. The regulation's complex payment structures, conditions, and multiple sunset provisions reflect its politically-motivated nature rather than any genuine market failure. Farmers and grain handlers would adapt to market-determined transportation and storage costs, as they do in other unsubsidized sectors. The unseen costs include higher taxes, inefficient resource allocation, and the corruption of entrepreneurial decision-making through government favoritism.

Designates Montreal as headquarters location for the Canadian Livestock Feed Board

Obsolete federal agency designation with no apparent functional necessity; headquarters location should be determined by board operations, not federal decree

Pension regulation for former Lieutenant Governors, establishing contribution rules for prior service before 1975, payment instalment plans with 4% interest, medical examination requirements, and spousal benefit recovery mechanisms.

Creates special pension class for former provincial viceroys with separate contribution system, interest-bearing payment plans, and spousal benefit recovery mechanisms that add administrative complexity without clear public benefit. The regulation establishes a parallel pension system with different rules than regular federal employees, including medical exams for disability pensions and automatic spousal debt collection. These provisions create unnecessary bureaucracy, distort retirement planning incentives, and impose costs on surviving spouses who may have had no role in the original service decisions.

This regulation establishes a fee schedule for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources to charge for copies of land survey records and documents, including base fees per item, an additional $3.50 per order, and $5 for certified true copies.

Government monopoly pricing on land records distorts property markets, raises transaction costs, and reduces access to essential information for due diligence. The legitimate goals of funding record-keeping and ensuring authenticity can be achieved through transparent cost-based pricing and allowing private competition in certification services, without regulatory price-fixing that entrenches inefficiency and limits liberty in property transactions.

Zoning regulations for Pitt Meadows Airport that establish approach surfaces, outer surfaces, and transitional surfaces to protect airspace safety by restricting building heights in surrounding areas

Creates excessive regulatory burden on landowners without proportional safety benefit - private property rights are more effectively protected through market mechanisms and existing tort law rather than complex zoning restrictions that limit development and reduce property values

This federal regulation establishes airport protection zones around Penticton Airport, prohibiting any construction that penetrates defined imaginary surfaces (horizontal, approach, and transitional) to ensure aviation safety. It applies to lands within complex geographical boundaries described in a 1963 plan, effectively restricting development on affected properties without compensation.

This regulation constitutes an uncompensated regulatory taking that artificially constrains land use and housing supply. It preempts market-based solutions—such as liability insurance, voluntary easements, or tort law—that could achieve aviation safety more efficiently while respecting property rights. The outdated 1963 plan likely doesn't reflect current aviation technology, yet it perpetuates unnecessary barriers to development, exacerbating Canada's housing affordability crisis and distorting resource allocation away from productive uses.

Provides compensation for federal employees who die or are injured in specific aviation accidents (non-scheduled flights during duties or civil aviation inspectors during flight operations), with benefits equal to military pension rates and coordination with tort recovery. Claims are adjudicated by the Canadian Pension Commission.

Government employees are already covered by the Government Employees Compensation Act. This duplicate regime creates unnecessary administrative overhead, complicates claims processing, and imposes taxpayer costs for redundant coverage without providing superior protection. The election provision confirms it's an optional parallel system, not a necessary supplement.

Procedural rules governing applications under section 745.6 of the Criminal Code for reduction of parole ineligibility periods. Sets out detailed requirements for filing, service, disclosure, preliminary conferences, jury empanelment, hearings, and evidence presentation.

Creates unnecessarily complex and costly process with multiple procedural hurdles, mandatory reports, and detailed disclosure requirements that increase burdens on courts, parties, and taxpayers without proportionate benefits to justice or public safety.

Procedural rules governing the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Board, detailing filing requirements, timelines, hearing procedures, and specific processes for certification, revocation, and arbitration in federal public sector labor relations.

This regulation enforces a state-administered system that overrides freedom of contract, forces collective representation, and creates bureaucratic rigidity in public sector labor relations. It substitutes centralized state control for voluntary negotiation, increasing costs, distorting incentives, and limiting individual autonomy in employment relationships. The system's unseen consequences include reduced labor market flexibility, barriers to merit-based compensation, and a culture of adversarial industrial relations that harms productivity and public service quality.

A statutory instrument containing four sections, all of which have been repealed by SOR/2006-168, section 3. No substantive regulatory text remains.

The regulation is already fully repealed and thus has no legal effect. Maintaining a repealed document in the regulatory corpus creates confusion, wastes administrative resources, and may mislead stakeholders. The original regulation, whatever its content, was deemed unnecessary or flawed by the legislature, supporting its removal from active codes.