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Regulation establishes procedures for banks to create bank holding companies, including shareholder approval requirements, voting rights, and regulatory compliance for structural changes to bank ownership and governance.

This regulation creates unnecessary bureaucratic complexity for bank restructuring, imposing costly approval processes and restrictions that distort market efficiency. It artificially constrains shareholder rights through mandated voting procedures and creates regulatory barriers that prevent banks from responding quickly to market opportunities, ultimately reducing financial sector competitiveness and innovation.

Canadian regulation implementing UN Security Council sanctions against Sudan. Prohibits dealings with designated persons and entities, imposes arms embargo on Sudan, requires financial institutions to continuously monitor and disclose property controlled by designated persons, provides exemption certificates, and allows information sharing with security agencies.

Restricts voluntary peaceful trade between Canadians and Sudanese, destroying wealth-creating opportunities. Imposes burdensome compliance costs on financial institutions that are passed to consumers. Creates surveillance state obligations, expanding RCMP/CSIS powers. Unintended consequences: harms ordinary Sudanese civilians more than targeted elites, empowers black markets, damages Canadian export competitiveness, and creates bureaucratic rent-seeking via exemption process. The regulation represents an unjustified interference with property rights and market signals, with hidden costs vastly outweighing any remote security benefits.

Establishes democratic election procedures for the Eskasoni Band, requiring majority vote of electors to select chief and councillors, with regulations taking effect upon registration.

This regulation ensures democratic accountability and transparent governance within the Eskasoni First Nation. Deleting it would create uncertainty about leadership selection processes, potentially undermining self-determination and enabling non-democratic appointments. The regulation enables community members to choose their representatives through clear, established procedures rather than leaving governance to default or arbitrary methods. Such procedural frameworks are essential for legitimate self-governance and cannot be easily replicated through private contracts or market mechanisms within a collective community context.

Regulates pension funding for Air Canada plans, allowing extended amortization of solvency deficiencies and special payment arrangements during financial restructuring period (2004-2013).

Creates special regulatory carve-outs for one company, distorting pension funding standards and creating unfair competitive advantages. Such targeted regulations breed cronyism and undermine uniform market discipline.

Grants the International Criminal Court legal capacities and privileges/immunities in Canada, similar to those of international organizations, including for ICC judges, officials, staff, and representatives of member states, while excluding Canadian citizens and permanent residents from these immunities for tax/duty purposes.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it enables Canada to participate in international criminal justice by providing the ICC with necessary legal status and immunities to operate effectively, which helps prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity that harm global stability and human rights.

Licensing and control regime for Schedule 1 chemicals (chemical weapon precursors) implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention. Sets national aggregate limit of 1 tonne and facility limit of 10 kg/year. Requires individual licenses for production, use, acquisition, or possession for research, medical, pharmaceutical, or protective purposes. Imposes extensive personal and facility information requirements, reporting, record-keeping, and prior notification periods. Provides limited exemptions for naturally occurring chemicals, peace officers, and a single small-scale facility at DRDC Suffield. Includes suspension and cancellation powers.

Canadians would be worse off: Canada would breach its treaty obligations, risking international sanctions and reputational damage, and remove essential safeguards against chemical weapons proliferation. The licensing system's screening, quantity caps, and traceability are uniquely suited to prevent catastrophic misuse and would be infeasible to replace with voluntary or market-based alternatives given the extreme danger and binding international commitments.

Amends Public Service Superannuation Act to apply specific pension provisions to Canadian Tourism Commission employees post-January 2, 2004, defining pensionable service and survivor benefits

Administrative burden outweighs benefits; creates pension complexity without market alternatives, contradicting principles of private property and market efficiency

Comprehensive maritime security regulations establishing vessel and port security requirements, including MARSEC levels, security plans, certificates, and procedures for vessels, marine facilities, and ports. Implements International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) requirements.

These regulations create excessive regulatory burden on maritime commerce without clear evidence of preventing terrorism or security incidents. The costs of compliance, paperwork, and security personnel divert resources from productive uses. The regulations impose international standards that may not reflect Canadian needs and create barriers to efficient shipping operations. Security threats can be addressed through targeted measures without comprehensive regulatory frameworks.

A regulation document containing only four sections, all marked as repealed by SOR/2007-110, section 2, with no remaining substantive provisions.

This regulation has no legal effect as all provisions are repealed. Keeping repealed statutes on the books creates regulatory clutter, uncertainty, and wasted compliance overhead for those who must navigate the legal framework. The document serves no purpose other than historical reference.

This regulation has been entirely repealed. The text shows sections 1-3 marked as repealed by SOR/2015-142, indicating it is no longer in force. It likely dealt with radio or telecommunications standards.

Repealed regulations are obsolete and should be deleted from the books. Keeping repealed text creates confusion, adds to the appearance of regulatory burden, and may inadvertently be interpreted as still having legal effect. The repeal indicates the original regulation was either ineffective, unnecessary, or replaced by superior approaches.

Prescribes mandatory forms for certificates and Tribunal certifications under the Aeronautics Act regarding monetary penalties for contraventions.

Pure bureaucratic paperwork imposing compliance costs for no substantive benefit; forms could be internally managed by the Tribunal, avoiding rigidity and procedural traps that undermine efficient enforcement.

Regulation SOR/2002-401 prescribes procedures for verifying the origin of goods claiming preferential tariff treatment under the Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement (CCRFTA). It outlines methods of verification (questionnaire, letter, documentation review, and verification visits with consent), notification requirements, timelines for responses and postponements, rights to designate observers, record-keeping standards, and consequences for non-compliance (denial/withdrawal of preferential treatment). The regulation ensures that only goods meeting the agreement's rules of origin receive tariff benefits.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because it maintains the integrity and enforceability of the CCRFTA. Deleting it would undermine the verification mechanism that ensures preferential tariff treatment is granted only to eligible goods, risking non-compliance, trade deflection, and ultimately the collapse of the agreement—or retaliatory measures—that reduce tariffs and lower costs for Canadian businesses and consumers. While the regulation imposes administrative burdens, these are a necessary and proportionate cost to preserve the substantial net benefits of freer trade with Costa Rica.

Establishes the Gully Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic Ocean, designating three management zones with varying protection levels. Prohibits most disturbances to marine life and seabed, requires prior Ministerial approval for activities, with limited exemptions for commercial fishing, certain research, and national security.

The regulation imposes a heavy-handed command-and-control regime that restricts economic activity, scientific inquiry, and property rights without clear justification. It creates a permission system that stifles innovation, imposes significant regulatory burden (60-day approvals, environmental assessments), and centralizes authority over a valuable marine resource. The unseen costs include preventing mutually beneficial uses, encouraging rent-seeking, and locking away potential economic opportunities based on bureaucratic discretion rather than market signals. Marine conservation goals could be achieved through less restrictive means like market-based incentives or co-management with stakeholders.

This Order grants remission of customs duties on temporary importation of mobile offshore drilling units (drilling platforms, jack-ups, drill ships, semi-submersibles) for offshore oil and gas exploration, delineation, or development activities. It applies to units imported between May 4, 2004 and May 4, 2014, with claims required by May 4, 2016, subject to conditions: units used only for drilling activities, evidence filed with CBSA, and claims made to the Minister.

The regulation is obsolete (time-limited window expired in 2014/2016). Even when active, it represented harmful industrial policy: picking winners through targeted duty exemptions distorts competitive neutrality, creates rent-seeking behavior, and implies the underlying customs duties themselves are a barrier to efficient allocation of capital. True pro-growth policy eliminates such tariffs universally, not via special exemptions for favored sectors.

No active regulation text provided; sections shown are all repealed. No current operative provisions exist.

Already repealed (SOR/2016-224); no longer in force. The repeal itself indicates the regulation was deemed unnecessary, ineffective, or problematic.