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Regulation prohibits any harbour activity that adversely affects harbour use, navigation, or safety without authorization. Requires permits for scheduled activities, mandates incident reporting, and grants harbour officials broad enforcement powers including ceasing activities and ordering restoration.

It replaces private ordering and liability with bureaucratic prior restraint, creating uncertainty, compliance costs, and arbitrary power that stifle harbour commerce. Safety and environmental goals could be more efficiently achieved through tort law, strict liability, and property rights rather than permission systems prone to capture and delay.

Federal-provincial crop insurance program with actuarial standards, premium support, and wildlife compensation provisions

Creates moral hazard by subsidizing agricultural insurance that encourages overproduction and risk-taking, while the complex regulatory framework distorts market pricing and transfers costs to taxpayers

The regulation mandates cable broadcasting distribution undertakings with 2,000+ subscribers to reserve two video channels (one English, one French) for CPAC distribution, with one channel required to be on the basic service tier.

This forced carriage mandate violates cable operators' property rights over channel capacity, distorts market allocation by pre-allocating bandwidth based on political preference rather than consumer demand, imposes hidden costs on all subscribers regardless of viewership, creates barriers to entry for competing public affairs channels, and substitutes central planning for the price mechanism. The regulation reduces consumer sovereignty and locks in a government-favored broadcaster at the expense of market-determined content distribution.

Quebec-specific regulation implementing the Sex Offender Information Registration Act by designating collection authorities, registration centres, and allowing electronic reporting options for sex offenders residing in Quebec.

Creates a parallel bureaucracy for sex offender registration when existing police forces could handle this under federal law. The electronic reporting provisions and multiple designated centres add unnecessary complexity and cost without improving public safety outcomes.

Administrative order renaming the Public Service Labour Relations Act to the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act and designating agencies for paragraph 209(1)(d). Purely internal government housekeeping with no impact on citizens or economic activity.

Obsolete 2005 administrative order that creates zero value for Canadians. The unseen cost is legal clutter and maintenance burden for a document that merely updates nomenclature references. Deleting it simplifies the statute book without affecting any rights, obligations, or government operations.

Designates RCMP detachments and YSOIRC as registration centers for sex offenders in Yukon, authorizes RCMP to collect/register information, and allows telephone notifications under the Sex Offender Information Registration Act.

Deletion would create implementation uncertainty, weakening public safety protection. Formal designation of RCMP centers and procedures ensures reliable, consistent registry operation that would be hard to achieve through ad hoc arrangements.

This regulation contains sections 1-12, all of which were repealed in 2012 by SOR/2012-285, section 17. The regulation is now obsolete and contains no active provisions.

The regulation has been completely repealed and contains no active provisions. It serves no regulatory purpose and should be removed from the books to eliminate unnecessary legal clutter.

This regulation determines which provincial laws apply to conditions of carriage and limitations of liability for extra-provincial truck transport. It establishes that the originating province's laws govern, unless that province has no specific enactment on these matters, in which case parties may freely agree to terms.

This regulation perpetuates Canada's damaging interprovincial trade barriers by subjecting cross-border trucking to differing provincial legal regimes. It creates regulatory complexity, compliance costs, and legal uncertainty for carriers operating across provinces—distorting incentives and reducing economic integration. The default rule should be that extra-provincial transport is governed by freely agreed contractual terms or uniform federal standards, not by the arbitrary variable of origin province. The 'freedom to contract' fallback is insufficient when the primary rule entrenches fragmentation.

Exempts Ontario health information custodians governed by the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 from Part 1 of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) for intra-provincial collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information.

Deleting this exemption would force Ontario healthcare providers to comply with both provincial and federal privacy regimes, increasing administrative costs and burdens without enhancing privacy protection. Duplication raises healthcare costs, reduces efficiency, and distracts from patient care, while the exemption respects provincial jurisdiction and avoids unnecessary overlap.

This regulation provides remission (partial refund) of anti-dumping duties on stainless steel round wire products, specifically for belting wire used in conveyor belts and wire line used in the oil and gas industry. It reduces duties to 35% of the export price for imports after April 2, 2004, with conditions including claims within two years, evidence submission, audit rights, and ongoing accuracy verification.

This regulation creates complex administrative overhead, distorts market prices, and perpetuates protectionist policies. Anti-dumping duties themselves are harmful interventions that raise costs for Canadian industries using these products. The remission mechanism adds bureaucratic complexity without addressing the fundamental issue that these duties harm Canadian manufacturers, oil and gas operations, and consumers through higher input costs and reduced supply options.

The regulation sets specific timelines for decision documents in the Yukon environmental assessment process, including standard periods (30-90 days), extensions for First Nations consultation, and coordination rules for multiple decision bodies with a designated lead federal body.

It adds unnecessary bureaucratic rigidity, prescribing arbitrary deadlines that distort incentives toward meeting calendars over substantive merit, increases transaction costs, and spawns litigation over technical compliance. The underlying need for timely decisions could be addressed through simpler principles or judicial oversight of unreasonable delay, not minute procedural codes.

This regulation establishes the Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment regime for Yukon, defining triggers for environmental review of various projects with numerous thresholds and exceptions. It requires government approval before property owners can undertake development activities, creating a comprehensive prior restraint regime covering mining, oil/gas, construction, infrastructure, and many other activities. The regulation contains over 100 detailed definitions and specific quantitative thresholds (e.g., corridor widths, explosive limits, campsite sizes) that determine when assessment applies.

This regulation fundamentally violates property rights by requiring government permission to use one's own land, creating a prior restraint regime that is incompatible with liberty and free markets. The costs are massive: development delays, increased transaction costs, regulatory uncertainty, and reduced supply of housing and resources—all contributing directly to Canada's affordability crisis, interprovincial trade barriers, and brain drain. The regulation assumes expert bureaucrats can make better decisions than property owners, ignoring the dispersed knowledge problem highlighted by Hayek. Environmental outcomes can be achieved through liability rules and property rights enforcement without preemptive approvals. The regulation's complex thresholds create arbitrary winners and losers, encourage rent-seeking, and incentivize NIMBY opposition rather than cooperative solutions. The unseen costs—projects never undertaken, capital fleeing to freer jurisdictions, lost opportunity costs—far outweigh any measurable environmental benefits, which themselves could be achieved through more targeted, ex post liability systems.

These regulations have been officially repealed and are no longer in effect as of SOR/2007-163, section 1.

Regulation is already repealed and obsolete, representing unnecessary regulatory burden that has been removed from the legal framework.

Regulates promotion definitions and criteria for federal public service employees, specifying when an assignment of duties constitutes a promotion based on pay scale increments or percentage thresholds, and clarifying that lateral moves within the same occupational group are not promotions.

Ensures consistent, objective criteria for promotions in federal public service, preventing arbitrary pay increases and maintaining fairness across government departments while providing clear guidelines for both employees and management.

Sets probationary periods and termination notice periods for specific classes of employees in Schedule I/IV organizations under the Financial Administration Act. Probation duration varies by employee class; excludes certain leave periods and starts upon accommodation for disabled employees. Notice periods are two weeks if employed ≤1 year, or one month if >1 year, with similar rules for apprentices/trainees.

Deletion would create uncertainty and inconsistent standards across federal organizations, risking arbitrary treatment of employees, increased legal disputes, and degraded public service efficiency, ultimately harming Canadians who depend on reliable government operations.