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This regulation defines 'serious injury' for RCMP personnel under the RCMP Act, specifying qualifying physical injuries including substantial mobility loss, loss of function, vision/hearing loss, disfigurement, fractures, and major burns/cuts, requiring non-transient medical attention from licensed practitioners.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because it ensures fair, consistent, and objective eligibility for RCMP injury benefits and disability protections; without it, subjective interpretation would lead to arbitrary outcomes, potentially denying support to genuinely injured officers or creating inequitable treatment. This precise definition is hard to replicate otherwise, as ad hoc determinations would undermine the rule of law and equal treatment in a critical benefit program for public safety officers.

Regulation governing clearing and settlement systems, including definitions, resolution plan requirements, cost recovery mechanisms, compensation frameworks for stakeholders during resolution, and disclosure rules for oversight information.

Creates moral hazard by establishing government bailout framework, imposes heavy compliance costs that stifle competition in financial infrastructure, and assumes regulators can centrally plan resolution better than market forces—a profound knowledge problem. The 'too big to fail' problem is real but this approach entrenches it rather than allowing credible market discipline through failure mechanisms.

Comprehensive oil pollution prevention and response regulations for vessels and oil handling facilities, establishing mandatory plans, equipment, training, and response procedures to protect marine environments from oil spills.

Creates costly compliance burden that drives up energy prices while achieving minimal environmental benefit - private insurance and tort liability would provide stronger incentives for prevention without regulatory overhead.

Patent Rules establishing definitions, procedures, and administrative requirements for patent applications and maintenance in Canada

These rules provide essential legal framework for intellectual property protection, ensuring inventors can secure exclusive rights to their innovations, which incentivizes research and development investment that drives economic growth and technological advancement in Canada.

Regulation under the International Financial Assistance Act governing loans, guarantees, and investments to foreign governments. Requires recipients to be on OECD DAC List and World Bank borrowers, sets creditworthiness standards, imposes exposure limits (120M or 20% per country, $500M total guarantees), specifies interest at government borrowing cost, includes fees, requires Minister of Finance approval, and prohibits controlling interests. Establishes terms, conditions, and operational framework for Canada's international financial assistance.

Government lending to foreign governments distorts capital allocation, creates moral hazard, and exposes Canadian taxpayers to default risk. This non-core function should be left to private markets willing to bear their own risks, not subsidized by public funds.

Mandates comprehensive accessibility requirements for transportation service providers, including accessible information formats, WCAG 2.0 Level AA website compliance, extensive personnel training, on-request assistance services (priority boarding, mobility aid handling, security assistance, etc.), accessible self-service kiosks, and no extra charges for these services.

Imposes significant compliance costs and rigid, one-size-fits-all requirements that reduce provider flexibility, increase prices for all passengers, and may contract service supply. The unseen costs include stifled innovation in accommodation methods, bureaucratic overhead, and potential reduction in competition. Existing human rights law already requires reasonable accommodation; case-by-case adjudication and market competition can achieve more efficient, tailored outcomes without prescriptive mandates that distort incentives.

Regulation mandates electronic passenger/crew information reporting by commercial carriers to CBSA for outbound flights (names, DOB, sex, flight codes) at multiple timepoints (72h pre-departure, check-in, post-departure). Also enables collection from US CBP for land departures.

Creates a costly surveillance regime tracking all outbound travel, imposing heavy compliance burdens on airlines and violating privacy. The marginal customs enforcement benefits cannot justify transforming private carriers into government reporting agents and establishing a database of citizen movements. Targeted enforcement would achieve goals at far lower liberty and economic cost.

Protects critical habitat of Barrens Willow (Salix jejuna) under Species at Risk Act, applying subsection 58(1) to prevent destruction of its habitat as identified in recovery strategy on Species at Risk Public Registry

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because species extinction is irreversible and this regulation prevents habitat destruction of an endangered plant with no viable private property alternatives for conservation

This regulation imposes targeted economic sanctions on individuals associated with the Nicaraguan government and human rights violations. It prohibits dealings with property owned by listed persons, requires financial institutions to screen for such persons, and includes exemptions for certain transactions like pension benefits and diplomatic functions. The listing power rests with the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Minister based on 'reasonable grounds to believe.'

This regulation violates fundamental principles of private property and voluntary exchange by authorizing the government to unilaterally freeze assets and prohibit peaceful trade based on a low 'reasonable grounds' standard lacking due process. It harms both listed individuals (including potentially innocent family members) and Canadians by restricting economic liberty. The policy's unintended consequences likely include entrenching the Nicaraguan regime, collateral damage to innocents, and establishing a dangerous precedent of property seizure without judicial review. Canadians would be better off without it—more free to engage in voluntary commerce and with stronger property rights protections.

This regulation permits Canadian residents to export certain goods to the United States without requiring individual permits, while maintaining export controls on specific items and requiring record-keeping for accountability.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it provides a streamlined export process for legitimate trade with the US while maintaining necessary controls on restricted items like firearms and certain dual-use goods. The regulation balances trade facilitation with security concerns, allowing businesses to operate efficiently without creating new regulatory burdens that would slow commerce and harm economic activity.

This regulation establishes a brokering permit system for controlled goods and technologies, requiring brokers to register, report transactions, and maintain records when facilitating trade with eligible countries or the Canadian government, with specific prohibitions on certain firearms and weapons.

This regulation creates compliance costs and administrative burden for legitimate businesses without preventing determined bad actors, while the information collection requirements could be achieved through simpler mechanisms. The record-keeping requirements and reporting obligations impose significant overhead on brokers who are already subject to export controls, creating barriers to legitimate international trade and investment.

Provides exemptions from brokering requirements under the Export and Import Permits Act: (1) transactions between corporations and affiliates for non-weapon goods when the good is for end-use by an affiliate; (2) brokering by Canadian citizens/permanent residents outside Canada for non-weapon goods when done for a foreign employer without employee control.

Canadians would be worse off without these exemptions: intra-corporate affiliate transactions would require permits for routine transfers, increasing costs and reducing supply chain efficiency; Canadians working abroad would lose ability to broker non-sensitive goods, limiting employment and international commerce. The exemptions achieve beneficial outcomes within the existing framework in a targeted manner.

This regulation establishes the application requirements for brokering permits under the Export and Import Permits Act, requiring detailed disclosure of transaction parties, goods/technology specifications, end-use certificates, and compliance with the Brokering Control List and Export Control List. It implements Canada's obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty by creating a permitting system for brokering activities involving controlled goods.

Brokering permits serve a critical national security function by preventing the proliferation of weapons and sensitive technology to embargoed destinations or end-users. The regulation's extensive disclosure requirements help authorities assess risks before transactions occur, which is difficult to achieve through post-transaction enforcement alone. While regulatory burden exists, the potential costs of weapons proliferation and technology transfer to hostile actors far outweigh the compliance costs for legitimate businesses. The system provides a structured way to enable legitimate trade while blocking high-risk transactions that could threaten Canadian and allied security interests.

This regulation establishes a brokering control list under the Export and Import Permits Act, specifying goods and technology subject to brokering controls, particularly those that could be used in weapons of mass destruction or their delivery systems, with provisions for ministerial determination based on end-use or consignee identity.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it helps prevent Canada from being used as a conduit for weapons proliferation, protecting national security and international obligations while maintaining Canada's reputation as a responsible trading partner.

This regulation applies the Species at Risk Act to protect critical habitat of the Hotwater Physa, a freshwater snail species, by incorporating its action plan from the public registry and making the protection effective immediately upon registration.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it protects an endangered species' critical habitat, preventing irreversible biodiversity loss that could have ecological and economic consequences for future generations.