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Mandates that face protectors for ice hockey and box lacrosse players meet the 1978 CAN3-Z262.2-M78 standard from the Canadian Standards Association, with a repeal clause and registration provision.

This 1978 mandate imposes obsolete safety standards, preventing adoption of modern protective technologies, raising costs, stifling competition, and potentially reducing safety by outlawing superior designs. The regulation creates a government-enforced monopoly on acceptable equipment, diverting resources from innovation to compliance with outdated specifications.

This regulation establishes safety standards for children's sleepwear, requiring flame resistance testing for both loose-fitting and tight-fitting sleepwear, with specific char length limits and chemical safety requirements for flame retardant treatments, including mandatory bilingual labeling and care instructions.

Without these regulations, children would face significantly higher risks of burn injuries from flammable sleepwear. The flame resistance requirements and chemical safety testing prevent manufacturers from using highly flammable materials or toxic flame retardants that could cause severe burns or health problems. The bilingual labeling ensures parents receive clear safety information in both official languages.

This regulation consists entirely of repealed sections (1-4) with no active provisions, all repealed by SOR/2018-82, section 4.

Already repealed; contains no enforceable provisions. Maintaining repealed text in regulatory databases creates confusion and unnecessary clutter, imposing documentation and compliance costs without any benefit.

This regulation prescribes safety standards for large glass carbonated beverage containers (1.5L+), including specific perforation and drop tests, bilingual pressure warnings, manufacturing date codes, and documentation requirements for manufacturers/importers.

Product liability law already provides sufficient incentives for manufacturers to produce safe containers. This command-and-control regulation imposes rigid testing protocols, documentation burdens, and compliance costs that raise prices, stifle innovation, and create barriers to entry without demonstrable net benefit. The unseen costs exceed any marginal safety improvements over market-driven quality competition and tort law.

Regulation prohibits candles from reigniting spontaneously after being extinguished, with enforcement starting upon registration.

Regulating candle physics is an absurd overreach that creates unnecessary compliance costs for manufacturers, stifles innovation in candle design, and represents regulatory capture by special interests seeking to eliminate competition through impossible technical requirements.

Regulations 1-7 have been repealed and are no longer in effect

These regulations have already been repealed and are obsolete. No current regulatory burden exists, but the repealed status itself represents a successful deregulatory outcome.

Regulations ceasing sections 10-12 and 13-15 of the Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006 from being in force after October 12, 2015, effectively ending export charge mechanisms for softwood lumber products.

Export charges create market distortions, reduce competitiveness of Canadian lumber industry, and harm housing affordability through increased construction costs. The unseen costs include reduced employment, fewer housing starts, and diminished economic growth in forestry-dependent regions.

Comprehensive safety regulations for cribs, cradles, bassinets, accessories, and stands covering structural integrity, entrapment prevention, flammability, choking hazards, and warning requirements

These regulations protect infants from life-threatening hazards like suffocation, strangulation, and structural collapse. The costs of keeping them are minimal compared to the severe injuries and deaths that would result from their removal, as evidenced by documented incidents before such standards existed.

Regulation sets emission limits for NOx from industrial boilers, heaters, and engines, and for NOx/SO2 from cement plants. Requires continuous emissions monitoring, reporting, and compliance with technical standards across multiple sectors.

Deletion would degrade air quality, increasing respiratory illness and environmental damage—costs borne by the public, not polluters. The regulation achieves pollution reduction through enforceable, uniform standards and mandatory monitoring, which decentralized alternatives cannot reliably provide due to high transaction costs and coordination failures in addressing widespread externalities.

Regulation SOR/13-80 establishes procedures for verifying the origin of goods under the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement (CPAFTA). It defines verification methods (questionnaires, letters, on-site visits), sets notice requirements, consent procedures, timelines (minimum 30 days), and obligations for exporters/producers to maintain records and provide access. It applies to verification visits conducted in Panama.

This regulation administers a free trade agreement that reduces barriers between Canada and Panama. While verification procedures impose compliance costs, they are necessary to prevent fraud and ensure the preferential tariff treatment flows only to eligible goods, maintaining the integrity of the trade agreement. Deleting it would create uncertainty and could enable non-compliant goods to receive preferential treatment, undermining the agreement's economic benefits. The administrative burden is minimal compared to the gains from liberalized trade.

Customs duty remission for ferry-boats imported after October 1, 2015, excluding those previously exported from Canada. Applies to boats classified under tariff subheading 8901.10, with claims required within two years of importation.

This regulation creates market distortion by favoring ferry-boat importers over other maritime vessel operators, while the administrative burden of claims processing and eligibility verification adds compliance costs without clear economic benefit. The duty remission is a form of selective industrial policy that distorts trade and creates regulatory complexity.

Regulation implements Canada's Montreal Protocol obligations by prohibiting manufacture, import, export, use, and sale of ozone-depleting substances (CFCs, HCFCs, methyl bromide) without permits, establishing phase-out schedules, consumption allowances, and critical use exemptions, with definitions and enforcement mechanisms.

Canadians would face higher UV exposure, increasing skin cancer and cataracts, without this regulation. The Montreal Protocol addresses a global externality that unilateral market mechanisms cannot solve effectively, as individual actors would overproduce/use ODS without binding international coordination; the treaty's permit system and phase-outs provide a feasible, cost-effective pathway to protect the ozone layer while allowing essential uses.

Regulation imposes extensive requirements on pipeline companies to prevent damage from construction and ground-disturbing activities, including mandatory one-call centre membership, locate requests within 3 days, consent processes, detailed record-keeping, reporting, and comprehensive damage prevention programs.

Heavy-handed command-and-control approach imposes massive compliance costs, delays construction (10-day consent timelines), and creates government-mandated monopolies. Pipeline safety can be achieved more efficiently through strict liability, insurance requirements, and voluntary industry standards, without coercive bureaucratic procedures that stifle productivity, increase costs, and distort market incentives. The unseen costs include reduced development, higher energy prices, bureaucratic bloat, and lost innovation in damage prevention technologies.

This regulation identifies specific provisions from Yukon territorial laws for use under section 65 of the Yukon Surface Rights Board Act, and establishes its registration date as the effective date.

This regulation provides essential legal clarity for the Yukon Surface Rights Board's operations, ensuring proper jurisdiction over surface rights disputes in Yukon. Without it, the Board would lack the specific legislative framework needed to resolve land access and compensation issues between surface and subsurface rights holders.

Pipeline Damage Prevention Regulations establish procedures for locating underground pipelines before construction, excavation, or agricultural activities near pipelines to prevent damage and ensure public safety. The regulations define key terms, set up a one-call notification system, and specify authorization requirements for various activities near pipelines including construction, ground disturbance, overhead line installation, and vehicle operation.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because pipeline damage prevention is a critical safety issue that requires standardized procedures. Without these regulations, there would be no uniform system for locating underground pipelines, leading to increased risk of explosions, environmental damage, and loss of life from accidental pipeline strikes during construction or excavation activities.