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Establishes a 2020-2026 amnesty for possessors of reclassified prohibited firearms/devices, shielding them from prosecution while they dispose of items via deactivation, destruction, export, or transfer. Defines eligibility (pre-May 2020 owners, storage providers, security personnel, repairers, transporters) and detailed rules for storage, transport, and permitted uses.

This regulation legitimizes and perpetuates an unjust prohibition on private property by providing a controlled compliance pathway. While it offers temporary relief, it normalizes state power to reclassify property as prohibited and reduces political urgency to fully restore property rights. The unseen cost is the entrenchment of bureaucratic control over lawful possessions and the dampening of resistance to underlying liberty violations.

Temporary exclusion from CERB income calculations for workers receiving $1000 or less in nominal income during cessation period, effective immediately upon enactment.

Temporary pandemic relief measure with no lasting justification; creates complexity and distorts income reporting without meaningful benefit to Canadians.

This regulation grants fee remission to medical cannabis license holders who sell exclusively to clients or medically-exempt persons within Canada, with detailed reporting and record-keeping requirements.

Fee remissions distort market competition by creating artificial advantages for certain business models, increase bureaucratic burden through complex reporting requirements, and undermine price signals that would otherwise guide resource allocation. The 7-year document retention mandate imposes hidden compliance costs on businesses without clear justification that these targeted subsidies outweigh the economic distortions they create.

This regulation directs the CRTC to implement CUSMA provisions by placing US home shopping channels on Canada's authorized programming list and allowing them to negotiate affiliation agreements with Canadian distributors, removing barriers to cross-border television shopping services.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because they'd lose access to competitive US home shopping channels, reducing consumer choice and market competition. The regulation achieves trade liberalization that would be difficult to replicate without international coordination; deleting it would violate treaty commitments while harming consumer welfare through restricted market access.

Regulation imposes export charges on dairy products when exports exceed allocated quotas under Canada's supply management system. Charges calculated via formulas based on whether cumulative exports exceed annual export access quantity.

Export charges restrict free trade and violate producers' property rights by penalizing them for selling their own products. They artificially constrain supply, reduce export opportunities, and keep domestic prices artificially high. The quota system benefits a small cartel at the expense of Canadian consumers and farmers' ability to compete internationally—classic government failure that creates deadweight loss and prevents wealth creation through voluntary exchange.

Regulation sets the weekly Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) payment amount at $500 for eligible recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Enforces wealth redistribution violating property rights, creates work disincentives, fosters dependency, and imposes fiscal burdens that reduce prosperity and liberty. Temporary emergency measures often become permanent government expansions, with unseen costs including erosion of self-reliance and market-based solutions.

Mandates that holders of international/interprovincial power lines must join local one-call centers, respond to locate requests within 3 working days, implement prescribed damage prevention programs (including public awareness, inspection protocols, and record-keeping), conduct inspections, and submit annual compliance reports to the regulator. The regulation aims to prevent damage to power line infrastructure from construction and ground disturbance activities.

This command-and-control regulation imposes significant compliance burdens—mandatory membership, rigid timelines, prescribed program elements, extensive record-keeping, and annual reporting—all of which increase operational costs and delay infrastructure projects. The unseen consequences include reduced flexibility for operators to innovate in damage prevention, potential barriers to interprovincial energy development, and higher costs ultimately borne by Canadians. The same safety objectives could be achieved more efficiently through strong liability rules and private coordination mechanisms, allowing market participants to develop cost-effective, tailored solutions without regulatory mandates.

This order provides customs duty remission for goods imported from the UK during the transition period between Brexit and the Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement, ensuring tariff parity with EU rates that previously applied to the UK.

Deleting this would immediately increase costs for Canadian importers and consumers of UK goods by removing transitional tariff relief, disrupting established trade flows and potentially violating trade continuity commitments.

This Order applies subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act to protect the critical habitat of the Vancouver Lamprey, an endangered species, as identified in its action plan in the Species at Risk Public Registry.

Canadians would be worse off because extinction of a native species is irreversible and harms ecosystem services like water quality and fisheries that benefit society; this regulation achieves its outcome by mandating habitat protection—the only reliable method for species recovery—since voluntary measures or market incentives cannot withstand development pressures.

This Order adjusts Canada's tariff policy following Brexit by withdrawing Canada-EU Tariff preferential treatment from UK-origin goods, effective January 1, 2021, with a transit-goods exemption.

Deleting this would violate Canada's trade obligations under CETA by extending EU preferential tariffs to a non-EU country, undermining treaty integrity and creating unfair trade disadvantages for other nations. The regulation maintains consistent application of negotiated terms.

This regulation directs the Canadian Transportation Agency to create rules requiring airlines to refund passengers for flight cancellations and lengthy delays caused by situations outside the carrier's control, such as weather or air traffic control issues, when passengers cannot complete their itinerary within a reasonable time.

Canadians would be worse off without this protection as passengers would have no recourse for significant financial losses when flights are cancelled due to circumstances beyond airline control. The regulation ensures fair compensation for situations where passengers are left stranded through no fault of their own, which market forces alone would not adequately address due to information asymmetries and the power imbalance between airlines and individual passengers.

Establishes the Canadian Pork Promotion-Research Agency with authority to impose compulsory levies on hog marketers and importers to fund promotion and research activities.

Coercively extracts funds from market participants to finance industry promotion and research, distorting market signals, creating rent-seeking, and violating property rights; private voluntary alternatives would be more efficient and liberty-preserving.

This Ministerial Order applies SARA subsection 58(1) to protect critical habitat of the Vananda Creek Limnetic Threespine Stickleback, imposing land-use restrictions and prohibitions to conserve this specific subspecies.

The regulation's property rights restrictions and compliance costs impose significant economic distortions and opportunity costs on landowners, discouraging investment and development. Voluntary conservation or land-use planning tools could achieve habitat protection without the pervasive regulatory burden that harms Canadian competitiveness and prosperity.

This order applies Section 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act to the critical habitat of the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback, as identified in the species' recovery strategy. It comes into force upon registration.

This regulation imposes additional restrictions on land use and development in the stickleback's habitat without demonstrating that the costs to property owners and economic activity are justified by measurable conservation benefits. The regulatory burden creates uncertainty for landowners and developers while potentially preventing beneficial projects. Habitat protection could be achieved through voluntary conservation agreements or market-based approaches that don't require government coercion.

Federal regulations establishing procedures for provincial enforcement services to apply for licence denial against debtors who fail to comply with support orders, including required application content and submission procedures.

Creates bureaucratic barriers that prevent individuals from working and supporting their families, potentially worsening financial hardship. The regulation enables government overreach by allowing provinces to restrict mobility and employment opportunities through administrative processes rather than judicial proceedings. This unintended consequence can trap people in poverty cycles while failing to actually recover owed support payments.