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A fee remission program for hazardous product suppliers who filed exemption claims between Feb 2015 and April 2018, allowing them to recover fees paid for seeking exemptions from disclosing confidential business information about hazardous ingredient concentrations, subject to conditions including claim withdrawal and use of standardized concentration ranges.

This narrow administrative measure creates unnecessary bureaucracy and compliance costs without clear public benefit. It involves government fee redistribution, creates regulatory complexity around hazardous materials disclosure, and establishes precedent for retroactive financial relief. The regulation serves no compelling safety purpose beyond existing rules and adds to the regulatory burden on businesses.

Procedural rules governing the Court of Appeal of Quebec's criminal appeal process, covering filing requirements, brief formatting, scheduling, confidentiality protocols, technological submissions, and hearing procedures to ensure orderly administration of justice.

These are essential procedural rules that maintain order, predictability, and fairness in the appeals process. Deleting them would create chaos, inefficiency, and unequal access to justice. While some formatting requirements impose minor compliance costs, they are necessary for the court's orderly functioning and cannot be achieved through market mechanisms or private ordering. The regulation ensures all parties operate under the same transparent rules, preventing arbitrary treatment and preserving the rule of law—foundational to liberty and property rights.

The Minister of the Environment, on advice from Fisheries and Oceans, recommends not adding Atlantic Bluefin Tuna and Yellowmouth Rockfish to the List of Wildlife Species at Risk under SARA. Both species will continue to be managed under the Fisheries Act with existing measures such as ICCAT total allowable catches, individual transferable quotas, at-sea and dockside monitoring, and adaptive management plans. The decision avoids the socio-economic impacts of SARA listing while maintaining conservation through proven fisheries management frameworks.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because deletion would likely result in the automatic listing of these species under SARA, imposing strict prohibitions that would close commercial, charter, and Aboriginal fisheries, devastating coastal communities and eliminating Canada's rigorous catch monitoring that contributes to global stock assessments. The regulation achieves conservation effectively through the flexible, science-based Fisheries Act framework, which can quickly adapt TACs and management measures; replicating this responsive balance would be difficult under SARA's rigid prohibitions, making the existing approach both more efficient and more protective of both species and livelihoods.

This Order grants remission of rents and fees for special leases and licences of occupation in national parks to Siksika Nation entities, reducing payments to $1 per year for tourism sites at Castle Mountain and Storm Mountain as part of a land claims settlement.

This is a direct subsidy that distorts market competition, imposes a fiscal cost on taxpayers, and allocates public resources based on preferential treatment rather than merit. The unseen cost is that it encourages inefficient use of valuable tourism land by removing price signals.

This regulation document consists entirely of repealed sections (1-99), all repealed by SI/2018-96, s. 83. It contains no active legal provisions and appears to be a shell of a formerly active regulatory framework.

The regulation is already fully repealed and contains no active provisions. Keeping repealed text in the statute books creates confusion, administrative burden, and legal uncertainty while serving no functional purpose. It represents dead weight that should be formally removed to maintain regulatory clarity and reduce compliance costs associated with navigating obsolete law.

The regulation defines when a child of a judge is considered in full-time attendance for benefit purposes, and allows death duties (estate taxes) to be paid from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for surviving spouses/children of judges, with corresponding annuity reductions.

These provisions create preferential, taxpayer-funded benefits for a specific group, violating equal treatment and fiscal responsibility. They distort compensation incentives, impose unnecessary costs on the public, and could be replaced with transparent, market-based judicial pay structures.

Remission of duties and taxes on household goods imported by settlers from countries with blocked currencies, provided goods are purchased with funds on deposit in the emigrant's country of origin and retained for at least 12 months.

This regulation facilitates immigration by removing financial barriers for settlers from countries with capital controls, promoting human capital mobility and economic growth without creating significant market distortions or costs to Canadian taxpayers.

Regulates consumer packaging and labelling requirements in Canada, including net quantity declarations, language requirements, and container specifications to ensure product information transparency and consumer protection.

Creates unnecessary compliance costs for businesses, restricts packaging flexibility, and imposes bilingual requirements that burden small producers while providing minimal consumer benefit that could be achieved through market competition and voluntary standards.

The Dominion Water Power Regulations establish a comprehensive licensing system for water power development on public lands, requiring detailed applications, public notices, ministerial approval with broad discretion, guarantee deposits, and ongoing oversight. The system defines technical terms and procedures for survey permits, interim licenses, and final licenses, with the Minister controlling land designation, expropriation, and construction.

The regulation imposes substantial barriers through ministerial discretion, costly requirements, and hearings that enable NIMBY obstruction, increasing costs, delaying projects, and reducing energy supply. The vague 'public interest' standard invites arbitrary decisions while treating water power as a government-granted privilege rather than a property right stifles competition and innovation.

Mandates disclosure labels on prescribed consumer textile articles sold, imported, or advertised in Canada, requiring fibre content, dealer identification (or ID number), and country of origin; regulates advertising consistency and provides numerous exemptions (B2B, used goods, exports, etc.).

Deletion would increase fraud and information asymmetry, harming consumers and honest businesses; this regulation achieves uniform, enforceable transparency with minimal compliance burden—a function voluntary systems cannot reliably replicate across all sellers.

The Precious Metals Marking Regulations establish mandatory standards for marking precious metal articles sold in Canada. They specify how quality marks can be applied, what purity information must be disclosed, tolerances for gold/silver content, and detailed requirements for different product categories (watch cases, spectacles, flatware, hollow ware). The regulations exempt articles sold to foreign dealers and certain non-precious metal components from marking requirements.

This regulation imposes significant compliance costs on manufacturers and importers while the market can handle quality assurance through private certification, brand reputation, and consumer fraud laws. The detailed prescriptive rules about stamping methods, specific exemptions for each product category, and technical tolerances create barriers to entry, stifle innovation in marking technologies, and require government enforcement resources. Consumer protection from fraud does not require such extensive micromanagement—private assay offices and hallmarking systems already exist, and misrepresentation would be actionable under general fraud statutes. The unseen costs include reduced competition, higher prices, and bureaucratic burden outweighing any marginal informational benefit to consumers.

Safety regulations for bridges over navigable waters, requiring lights/markings, trained operators for movable spans, standardized navigation signals and passages. Applies to bridges built after 1923, with Minister having discretionary prescribing authority.

Creates bureaucratic bottlenecks through Ministerial discretion that stifles innovation and imposes uniform solutions on diverse waterways. Bridge owners and waterway users have strong incentives to coordinate safe operations through private contracts, liability, and insurance markets. The regulation ossifies specific technologies (lights, signals) rather than allowing market evolution, and central planners cannot match the localized knowledge of stakeholders. Common law nuisance and tort standards already provide adequate recourse for harm, making this redundant cartel-like regulation that increases costs and reduces adaptive capacity.

Procedural regulation for applications to restore seized tobacco/vaping products under the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, setting notice timing (15 days), content requirements, and service rules.

Deletion would weaken due process and property rights protections, making it harder for owners to challenge seizures and increasing risk of arbitrary government action; clear, predictable procedures are essential for rule of law.

Regulations under the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act governing acceptable identification for age verification, exemptions for certain sellers, and extremely detailed specifications for mandatory age-prohibition signage including exact dimensions, font (Helvetica Bold), color contrast, border thickness, and placement requirements.

The signage specifications constitute pure bureaucratic overreach with zero marginal public health benefit. Requiring Helvetica Bold, exact dimensions (20x30cm minimum), 30-40% coverage, and 1-1.5cm red borders imposes real compliance costs while providing no additional protection compared to letting retailers display effective warnings. The age verification list is also unnecessarily rigid; retailers have strong incentives to avoid selling to minors and can exercise reasonable judgment about acceptable ID. The regulation achieves no outcome that couldn't be achieved with far less prescriptive rules or none at all, while increasing costs, reducing flexibility, and diverting enforcement resources to measuring font sizes instead of actual outcomes.

All sections (1-25) are repealed according to SOR/2018-120, s. 54. This regulation has been entirely repealed and contains no enforceable provisions.

Already fully repealed. This regulation is obsolete and has no legal effect.