Adjusts excise tax indexing ratios for 1983-1984 to increase tax rates by specified multipliers
These regulations repealed in 2016, making them obsolete. They served no purpose beyond 1984 and their removal eliminates unnecessary administrative overhead.
This regulation applies subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act to the critical habitat of the Western Brook Lamprey Morrison Creek population, as identified in its action plan on the Species at Risk Public Registry. It comes into force upon registration.
Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it protects the critical habitat of an endangered species. Without this protection, the Morrison Creek population of Western Brook Lamprey could face further decline or extinction, which would represent a permanent loss of biodiversity and could have cascading ecological effects. The regulation achieves its conservation goal through established legal mechanisms that would be difficult to replicate through voluntary or market-based approaches given the public goods nature of species protection.
Regulation mandates security measures for railway carriers and loaders transporting dangerous goods by rail, including threat reporting, designated security coordinators, visual inspections, written security plans for high-risk goods, and security training for personnel.
Addresses catastrophic terrorism externality that private actors would underweight due to limited liability; requirements are risk-proportional with exemptions for low quantities; compliance costs are justified given potential for mass casualties, environmental damage, and economic disruption from successfully tampered dangerous goods shipments.
The Direction mandates the Canadian Transportation Agency to create regulations setting minimum standards for airline passenger treatment during tarmac delays of three hours or less, including timely information and assistance. It supersedes prior ministerial directions and is effective upon registration.
The regulation imposes unnecessary costs on all passengers through higher fares to benefit a minority, creates perverse incentives like flight cancellations, stifles market-based service innovation, and relies on arbitrary government thresholds. Existing market mechanisms (reputation, competition) and legal remedies already address mistreatment, while the unseen costs include reduced affordability, moral hazard, and regulatory creep.
Defines 'low-materiality fees' under the Service Fees Act based on fee amount (<$51, or $51-$151 with <$500k revenue) and lists specific exempt fees in Schedule 1. Sets conditions for when a fee ceases to be low-materiality and requires the President of the Treasury Board to consider revenue, fee amount, and user characteristics when amending schedules.
Creates arbitrary bureaucratic classifications ($51, $151, $500k thresholds) and compliance overhead without improving economic outcomes. The unseen costs include government resources spent tracking, reporting, and updating schedules for no tangible benefit to liberty, property rights, or market efficiency.
This regulation mandates plain and standardized packaging for all tobacco products sold in Canada. It requires packages to be drab brown (Pantone 448) with matte finish, prescribes exact dimensions and shapes (rectangular cuboid for cigarettes, slide-and-shell packaging), prohibits all brand elements, colors, decorative features, scents, sounds, and electronic access, and severely restricts what text and information can appear. Only minimal product information and health warnings are permitted, with strict controls on font, size, and placement.
This regulation represents a severe violation of property rights and economic freedom by eliminating legitimate branding and product differentiation. It imposes massive compliance costs on manufacturers while delivering questionable public health benefits that could be achieved through less restrictive means like prominent health warnings. Unintended consequences include fueling the black market (counterfeiting becomes easier when all packages look identical), reducing consumer ability to distinguish legitimate products, and stifling innovation in packaging. The state has no legitimate role in dictating aesthetic design choices for legal products, and the paternalistic assumption that removing branding will reduce consumption is not supported by evidence sufficient to justify such extensive coercion.
Establishes the Laurentian Channel Marine Protected Area with specific zones, prohibitions on activities that disturb marine life, and a permitting system for scientific, educational, and certain commercial activities. The regulation creates a complex approval process for research activities with environmental impact assessments and post-activity reporting requirements.
Creates bureaucratic barriers to marine research and economic activity without clear evidence of effectiveness. The permitting process adds costs and delays for legitimate scientific work while failing to address actual conservation needs. Private property rights in marine areas are better protected through clear ownership and market-based solutions rather than top-down regulation.
Detailed technical specifications for non-automatic weighing devices covering accuracy classes, performance requirements, installation standards, and marking requirements to ensure reliable measurement in commercial transactions.
Canadians would be worse off without standardized weighing device regulations that prevent fraud, ensure accurate transactions, and maintain fair commerce across all industries from retail to industrial weighing applications.
Procedural rules governing criminal appeals in Manitoba's Court of Appeal, covering filing requirements, time limits, transcript procedures, appeal books, factums, and judicial interim release processes.
These procedural rules are essential for orderly administration of justice and protecting appellate rights. Deleting them would cause appeals to be dismissed on technical grounds, create chaos in the court system, and undermine the rule of law. They facilitate liberty by ensuring predictable, accessible appeals processes rather than restricting economic freedom.
Technical specifications for metering assemblies with electronic automatic temperature compensators (ATCs) used in trade for measuring liquids. Covers design, performance, installation, and testing requirements to ensure accurate volume measurements corrected to reference temperature and pressure.
Deleting this would undermine trust in commercial measurements, leading to fraud, disputes, and market failure from asymmetric information. The regulation ensures accuracy and consistency in trade measurements—a core, legitimate state function that facilitates commerce rather than distorting it. Compliance costs are necessary for reliable transactions and do not create harmful barriers or unintended consequences typical of overregulation.
Approves specific breath analysis instruments for use in criminal breathalyzer testing under section 258 of the Criminal Code.
Without this regulation, unreliable breathalyzer devices could be used in criminal proceedings, increasing risk of wrongful convictions or wrongful acquittals due to faulty evidence. The approved list ensures scientific reliability and evidentiary standards that would be difficult to achieve through ad-hoc judicial review of each device.
Establishes the legal framework for issuing Canadian passports, including eligibility criteria, application processes, security measures, and grounds for refusal or revocation based on citizenship status, criminal charges, and national security concerns.
Canadians would be worse off without this regulation as it ensures secure identification for international travel, prevents fraudulent use of Canadian citizenship, and protects national security by allowing authorities to deny passports to individuals facing criminal charges or security threats.
Grants remission to a specific province of fiscal stabilization overpayments made under the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act for the 2015-2016 fiscal year to avoid negative fiscal impact.
Creates a non-transparent, one-off exemption for a single province rather than establishing uniform rules for correcting overpayments. Maintains unnecessary complexity in intergovernmental fiscal relations, encourages moral hazard by shielding provinces from the consequences of payment errors, and distorts interprovincial competition by providing ad-hoc relief outside standard frameworks. The same objective could be achieved through automatic correction mechanisms or clear statutory rules without enabling discrete ministerial orders.
Withdraws Hans Island from disposal for five years to facilitate negotiation and settlement of the territorial dispute with Denmark.
Deletion would weaken Canada's diplomatic leverage, risking sovereignty loss over a strategic Arctic territory; the legal withdrawal prevents competing claims during negotiations, a mechanism not easily replicated without formal authority.
The regulation refers the Shortfin Mako Atlantic population back to COSEWIC for reassessment under the Species at Risk Act due to new evidence indicating a worse conservation status than previously assessed.
It sustains a coercive regulatory framework that restricts private property, fishing, and development, imposing significant unseen costs on economic liberty and prosperity. The reassessment creates uncertainty and paves the way for tighter controls that reduce supply, increase costs, and hinder competitiveness, while alternative market-based conservation could achieve species protection without violating property rights.