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Regulation governing pension portability for public service employees who transition to private entities contracted by the federal government to carry out former Citizenship and Immigration functions. It allows transferred employees to retain and continue accumulating service under the Public Service Superannuation Act during their employment with the new employer, with survivor benefits and other provisions applying as if employment continued in the public service.

Extends public pension liability into private employment, distorting labor market incentives for outsourced government work and creating unfair advantages for contractors employing former public servants. Pension portability can be achieved through private arrangements without entrenching cross-sector benefit obligations that blur public-private lines and expose taxpayers to additional risk.

Regulation governs pension benefits for federal employees transferred to new employers, ensuring continuity of Public Service Superannuation Act benefits including death benefits, allowances for survivors/children, pensionable service recognition, and age calculation adjustments when employees move from public service to private sector under government agreements.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because this regulation protects pension rights and benefits continuity for federal employees during privatization transitions, preventing sudden loss of retirement security, survivor benefits, and pensionable service recognition that would occur without these protections.

This regulation extends Public Service Superannuation Act pension benefits to employees who transferred from federal public service to a 'new employer' following the divestiture of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority on or after April 1, 1999. It provides death benefits, survivor allowances, and treats service with the new employer as pensionable service under the public service pension plan, effectively guaranteeing public sector retirement benefits to private sector workers.

This regulation creates an improper government liability for private sector employees, distorting labor markets by guaranteeing public sector pension benefits to a specific group. It imposes ongoing taxpayer obligations for personnel decisions made over 25 years ago, adds regulatory complexity, and creates unfair advantages over competing private employers. The original 'transitional' purpose is long obsolete; any necessary benefits should have been negotiated directly between the employer and employees, not codified into law as a permanent government commitment.

Regulation establishes the framework for the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors, defining professional misconduct, code of ethics, committee structures, registration, licensing, examination requirements, insurance, and disciplinary procedures for land surveyors working on federal (Canada) lands.

Canadians would be worse off without this regulation because it ensures competence and integrity in surveying on federal lands, preventing boundary errors that cause property disputes, undermine land titles, and threaten the security of property rights. The regulation achieves its goals through a self-regulatory professional body model that is more efficient and expert than direct government licensing, and its removal would lead to costly errors and legal uncertainty that would stifle investment, development, and the peaceful enjoyment of land.

Port authority governance and financial reporting regulations covering corporate structure, board operations, director liability, auditor requirements, and financial statement disclosures for Canadian port authorities and their subsidiaries.

These regulations establish essential corporate governance frameworks for port authorities that ensure transparency, accountability, and proper financial management of critical infrastructure. The rules on director liability, auditor independence, and financial disclosures protect public interests and prevent mismanagement of port operations that serve national trade functions.

Regulations governing pension transfers between public service and other employers, defining terms and establishing calculation methods for pensionable service credits and funding demands.

Prevents double-dipping in pension systems and ensures fair treatment when employees move between public and private sectors, maintaining fiscal responsibility in public pension administration.

Regulation extends Public Service Superannuation Act pension benefits to employees who transition from federal public service to a 'new employer' under government agreement. It ensures surviving family benefits, includes service with new employer in pension calculations, and preserves pension age/options for workers in privatized operations.

This regulation creates a regulatory privilege that distorts labor markets by extending public sector pension benefits to specific private workers. It entrenches government-granted benefits for a narrow group, increases systemic complexity, undermines true privatization, and creates unfair competition by providing special treatment. The same outcomes could be achieved through voluntary private contracts between employers and employees without regulatory compulsion.

Preserves pension benefits for public servants who transfer to a contracted employer under government agreement, treating service with the new employer as pensionable and allowing election of return of contributions/transfer value within one year.

Deleting this regulation would harm specific workers who expected pension portability when transferring to contracted employment; it imposes negligible regulatory burden and does not distort markets, restrict competition, or create systemic inefficiencies. The regulation is a narrow administrative safeguard for a one-time privatization.

These regulations have already been repealed and are no longer in effect.

Regulations are already repealed, making them obsolete. No regulatory burden exists to maintain.

These Regulations establish procedural rules for the Farm Debt Mediation Act, creating a government-mediated process for farmers facing financial difficulties. They define terms, set conflict-of-interest boundaries, establish mediator appointment criteria, outline stay-of-proceedings extension conditions, specify notification procedures, create regional appeal boards with appointed members, and detail appeal filing deadlines and processes. The framework gives farmers temporary protection from creditor actions while attempting to facilitate debt restructuring through mediation.

This regulation creates a government bureaucracy that interferes with private contractual relationships and creditor rights. The stay-of-proceedings provisions delay legitimate debt enforcement, distorting market signals and potentially increasing costs for creditors who must wait for government mediation. The appeal process adds administrative layers that prolong resolution. While intended to help farmers, such interventions prevent the market discipline that would otherwise allocate resources efficiently—allowing unviable farms to fail naturally and freeing land/labor for more productive uses. Farmers facing genuine distress would be better served by private bankruptcy mechanisms already available, without creating a sector-specific regime that picks winners and adds regulatory complexity. The unseen cost is the inhibition of capital reallocation to more productive agricultural enterprises.

Regulation provides pension and benefit portability for federal public service employees who transfer to provincial governments under labour market development agreements, treating their service with the province as continued pensionable service for purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act.

Creates unequal treatment by granting government employees special pension portability benefits not available to private sector workers, distorting labor market incentives and subsidizing government-to-government mobility at taxpayer expense. This regulatory privilege violates the principle of equal justice and artificially lowers the cost of remaining in public sector employment, potentially trapping talent within government systems.

1997 transitional regulation governing pension and superannuation rights for employees transferred from the public service to St. Joseph Corporation (private buyer) during the privatization of Canada Communication Group. Ensures pension portability, death benefits, and service credit continuity for affected employees during the specific 1996-1997 transfer.

This is a one-time, time-bound regulation from 1997 with deadlines from 1998. Its specific purpose—governing the pension arrangements for employees transferred during a specific privatization—has been fully realized. It no longer applies to any current employees or circumstances, serving only as historical clutter. Retaining dead-letter regulations creates confusion, increases legal complexity, and risks future misinterpretation. Clean repeal removes unnecessary statutory noise without affecting any current rights or obligations.

This 1996 regulation governs pension benefits for public servants transferring to airport authorities during airport divestiture, treating their airport employment as continuous public service for pension calculations and extending survivor benefits.

Legacy transitional regulation that extends public sector pension privileges to private entities, creating market distortions and regulatory accumulation. The original one-time transfer context (1990s) has passed, yet keeping it maintains unnecessary complexity and subsidizes certain employers with public pension benefits.

Regulation governs pension portability for federal employees who transferred to NAV CANADA during the 1996 air navigation services privatization, specifying how pensionable service, death benefits, and allowances are calculated for that specific cohort.

This 30-year-old transitional regulation is obsolete; keeping dead-letter rules adds regulatory clutter, increases legal complexity, and burdens the statute book with provisions that no longer serve any current policy purpose.

Sections 1 and 2 of this regulation have been repealed by SOR/2016-24 and are no longer in force.

These sections are already repealed, making them irrelevant. The repeal indicates the original provisions were likely recognized as having costs exceeding benefits or were otherwise unnecessary.