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Provides de minimis exemptions from customs duties and excise taxes for low-value courier shipments: $20 threshold for non-US/Mexico, $150 for duties and $40 for excise taxes from US/Mexico. Excludes alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, vaping products, and certain publications. Remission must be claimed within 2 years if not granted at import.

Deleting this remission order would raise costs and administrative burdens for Canadians importing low-value goods by courier. It achieves the beneficial outcome of recognizing that collection costs outweigh revenue for small shipments—a practical simplification that would be difficult to replicate without clear, uniform thresholds.

This regulation provides duty and tax remission on postal imports valued at $20 or less, excluding restricted goods like alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis products. It applies to direct mail imports and requires claims within two years for post-importation benefits.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it eliminates de minimis customs duties and taxes on small-value postal imports, reducing administrative burden and costs for both consumers and businesses. The $20 threshold represents a practical balance between revenue collection and administrative efficiency, and removing it would increase costs and complexity for millions of small cross-border transactions without significant revenue gain.

Administrative note referring COSEWIC's 2014 mountain caribou assessments back for reconsideration due to uncertainties in DU delineation, insufficient genetics data, lack of Indigenous knowledge inclusion, and recent population changes. No regulatory provisions or requirements are established in this document.

This is not a regulation but an internal administrative note with no legal effect. It represents bureaucratic process without substance, consuming government resources on procedural matters while achieving nothing for property rights, economic liberty, or actual conservation outcomes. The underlying Species at Risk Act listing mechanism itself creates regulatory takings and land-use restrictions based on shifting scientific boundaries, imposing costs on landowners and resource development without clear property rights frameworks.

Authorizes ex gratia payments of $28,500 to workers who participated in Chalk River nuclear decontamination during specific periods in 1952-1953 and 1958, with application deadline of March 31, 2023.

Expired ex gratia program creates precedent for historical claims, uses taxpayer funds without legal liability, and interferes with natural compensation mechanisms. The regulation itself disclaims Crown liability, undermining any justification for government payment. Deletion prevents moral hazard and respects property rights.

This regulation provides fee remission for fingerprinting and criminal record verification services for Indigenous people seeking to reclaim names changed during the residential school system, covering the period from enactment to five years after.

This targeted fee waiver addresses a specific historical injustice by removing financial barriers for Indigenous people reclaiming names forcibly changed during residential schools, facilitating reconciliation without creating broader market distortions or unintended consequences.

This agreement establishes social security coordination between Canada and Albania, allowing for benefit eligibility based on combined creditable periods, preventing double taxation, and ensuring benefits can be paid to residents of either country. It covers Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan, and Albanian mandatory social insurance systems.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because they would lose access to Albanian pension credits for time worked there, face potential double taxation on contributions, and lose the ability to receive coordinated benefits when residing in either country. The agreement prevents harmful unintended consequences of fragmented social security systems for international workers.

This regulation grants remission (forgiveness) of overpaid Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or Employment Insurance Emergency Response Benefit (EIERB) amounts for individuals who were actually eligible for the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) instead. It requires that the person has repaid or will repay the overpayment, applied for benefits by Sept 30, 2020, filed 2019 and 2020 tax returns by Dec 31, 2022, and applies for remission in prescribed form. The remission amount is capped at what they would have received under CESB.

This is an expired, one-time transitional measure with all deadlines (2020, 2022) long passed. It served a specific pandemic-era correction that is no longer relevant. Keeping obsolete regulations creates unnecessary legal clutter, increases complexity, and imposes compliance costs on the administration of justice for no active public benefit. The regulation achieves no current policy objective and should be formally repealed to maintain statutory tidiness and reduce regulatory burden.

No substantive regulation text provided; only the placeholder 'SCHEDULE' appears.

Insufficient detail to assess purpose or impact; likely obsolete or incomplete, representing potential regulatory clutter.

Repeals section 24 of the Saskatchewan Act with retroactive effect to August 29, 1966, amending the constitutional framework for Saskatchewan.

Constitutional amendment removing outdated provisions that likely restricted provincial autonomy or created regulatory barriers, restoring more market-friendly governance.

Section 14 of the Northern Pipeline Act mandates that the Northern Pipeline Agency submit an annual report to Parliament detailing its operations, activities, and financial statements related to the Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline Project. The report serves as an accountability mechanism, providing systematic transparency on the agency's use of public funds and progress toward its mandate.

Canadians would be worse off without this reporting requirement because it provides the only consistent, comprehensive, and statutory source of information about the Northern Pipeline Agency's activities. Without mandated annual reports, oversight would rely on voluntary disclosure or ad-hoc inquiries, enabling unchecked waste, mission creep, or failure to go undetected. This outcome is hard to achieve otherwise because the legal requirement ensures predictable timing, standardized content, and authoritative disclosure—features that press inquiries or committee hearings cannot reliably replicate. Accountability must be institutionalized, not discretionary.

Withdraws ~2,000 km² of Crown land on Bathurst Island, Nunavut, from disposal for 10 years pending land use planning, with exceptions for existing mineral/petroleum rights and quarrying.

A 10-year blanket prohibition on disposal forecloses wealth creation, job growth, and private investment in a region that desperately needs economic development. The planning objective could be met by a simple policy of non-disposal while allowing environmentally sound projects to proceed through existing regulatory channels, avoiding the destructive unseen costs of immobilizing productive resources.

This regulation establishes a comprehensive licensing system for foreign fishing vessels wishing to enter Canadian fisheries waters for any purpose including commercial fishing, transhipment, processing, port access, or scientific research. It requires prior ministerial approval based on 'favourable fisheries relations' with flag states, imposes extensive conditions on vessel operations, mandates detailed reporting and observer requirements, sets technical specifications, and authorizes inspections and enforcement actions. It incorporates numerous international fisheries agreements and creates detailed procedural and administrative requirements.

This regulation imposes heavy trade barriers that restrict foreign vessels from accessing Canadian waters and ports, even for legitimate transhipment, servicing, or processing activities—creating exactly the kind of interjurisdictional trade restriction that economists like Friedman and Hayek condemned as economically destructive. The licensing system grants sweeping ministerial discretion, creates a costly administrative bureaucracy, and imposes extensive compliance burdens that raise costs and reduce competition. Conservation objectives could be achieved more efficiently through property rights systems, tradable quotas, or international agreements without the heavy-handed command-and-control approach that inevitably distorts incentives, reduces supply, and invites regulatory capture. The regulation's unintended costs—including higher prices for Canadian consumers, reduced economic activity in port communities, and barriers to international cooperation—far outweigh any marginal enforcement benefits, especially when more market-oriented alternatives exist.

Designates provisions of the Canada Transportation Act for penalty enforcement under subsection 177(1) and establishes maximum fine amounts for corporations and individuals for contraventions.

Canadians would be worse off without predictable penalty caps, as enforcement would become arbitrary and inconsistent, undermining deterrence and due process. This regulation achieves fair, transparent enforcement in a way that ad-hoc penalty-setting cannot, while ensuring violations have consequences without excessive fines.

This regulation establishes comprehensive rules for radio apparatus licensing, operation, and certification in Canada, covering amateur, aeronautical, maritime, and other radio services with technical standards and operator requirements.

Creates unnecessary barriers to entry and innovation in communications technology, imposes costly certification requirements that could be handled by private standards bodies, and restricts the free use of radio spectrum which should be allocated through market mechanisms rather than government licensing.

General Import Permit No. 13 allows Canadian residents to personally import up to 10kg of beef and veal non-refundably, but only from countries that are NOT parties to Canada's free trade agreements (Chile, CUSMA/USMCA, EU/CETA, UK/CUKTCA). The permit specifies tariff classifications and requires a specific customs declaration.

This regulation is explicitly repealed (SOR/97-45). Even if active, it would be protectionist nonsense that restricts personal import choices purely based on country of origin while doing nothing to improve food safety, consumer welfare, or domestic production. Such import barriers raise costs for Canadians, reduce choice, and violate the principle that individuals should be free to purchase from any willing seller. The differential treatment based on trade agreements adds bureaucratic complexity without discernible benefit.