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This regulation establishes comprehensive storage, display, transportation, and handling requirements for firearms in Canada, including definitions of firearm categories, exemptions for authorized personnel, and specific security measures for different types of firearms to prevent unauthorized access and accidents.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it establishes critical safety standards that prevent firearm accidents, unauthorized access by children or criminals, and reduces gun-related injuries and deaths. The regulation creates a structured framework that balances legitimate firearm ownership with public safety through secure storage requirements, transportation protocols, and handling restrictions that would be difficult to achieve through voluntary compliance alone.

This regulation establishes fee structures for firearms licensing, including waivers for certain categories (non-restricted firearms, subsistence hunting, youth under 18, ammunition wholesalers), fee reductions for new applicants and upgrades, and replacement fees for lost documents.

The licensing fee system creates unnecessary administrative burden and compliance costs that discourage lawful firearm ownership. Fee waivers and reductions create arbitrary distinctions between legitimate users while imposing uniform costs on businesses. The regulatory framework distorts market signals, reduces supply of legal firearms, and disproportionately affects rural and subsistence users who need firearms for livelihood. These costs outweigh any claimed public safety benefits, as the fees don't correlate with actual risk or harm prevention.

A regulation consisting of five sections (1-5) that were repealed by SOR/2012-18, section 3. The document is a placeholder showing former regulatory provisions no longer in force.

The regulation is already repealed and thus obsolete. Keeping repealed provisions in the active regulatory corpus creates legal confusion, increases compliance burden for practitioners who must check status, and contributes to regulatory clutter without achieving any current purpose.

This regulation sets specific multipliers for adjusting excise tax rates in 1983-1984 to account for inflation, affecting tobacco, alcohol, and fuel taxes.

These are obsolete inflation adjustments from 1983-1984 that no longer serve any purpose - the specific multipliers for these years are irrelevant to current tax policy and create unnecessary complexity in the tax code.

Permits Canadian residents to import up to two dozen eggs for personal use without commercial restrictions, providing a small exemption from standard egg import regulations.

Canadians would be worse off if this personal exemption was deleted because it allows individuals to bring eggs across the border for personal consumption without facing commercial import barriers, reducing costs for travelers and providing dietary flexibility.

General Import Permit No. 20 authorizes Canadian residents to import wheat, wheat products, barley, and barley products from any country, subject to quota limits and accounting requirements under the Customs Act. The permit specifies detailed tariff classifications for various grain-based products and is time-limited based on import access quantities determined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

This import permit creates unnecessary bureaucratic overhead and quota restrictions that distort free trade in agricultural products. The quota system artificially limits supply, increases food prices for Canadians, and protects domestic producers at the expense of consumers. Free markets would better allocate grain resources without government-imposed import quotas and complex accounting requirements.

General Import Permit No. 3 allows Canadian residents to import wheat, wheat products, barley, and barley products for personal use without additional permits, with specific reporting requirements and tariff classification details.

This permit creates unnecessary regulatory complexity for personal food imports that could be handled through standard customs procedures. The detailed reporting requirements and special classifications add administrative burden without providing meaningful benefits to Canadians or Canadian producers. Personal food imports should be treated as simple personal goods subject to basic customs rules rather than requiring special permits.

This repealed regulation created a general import permit allowing Canadian residents to personally import turkeys (one) or turkey products (up to 10 kg) without an individual permit, requiring specific报关 declarations.

Repealed since 1997; the original framework added bureaucratic licensing for personal consumption that standard customs could handle, representing unnecessary intervention in voluntary exchange. The repeal correctly eliminated this barrier to individual liberty and property rights.

These regulations set specific multiplication ratios for adjusting excise tax rates on two historical dates: September 1, 1983 and September 1, 1984. The regulation provides one-time indexing factors for inflation adjustments to excise taxes under the Excise Tax Act.

The regulation is entirely obsolete, applying only to past dates over 40 years ago. It has no current legal effect or practical application. Even without formal repeal, it serves no purpose and creates unnecessary regulatory clutter. Historical indexing adjustments should be archived, not maintained in active regulations.

Pension benefits division regulations governing the calculation and transfer of pension benefits between spouses or common-law partners during separation or divorce, including valuation methods, reduction calculations, and transfer procedures.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it provides a standardized, legally binding framework for fair division of pension benefits during relationship breakdowns, preventing costly litigation and ensuring both parties receive their rightful share of accumulated retirement benefits.

The regulation document shows that sections 1–3 have been repealed by SOR/2012-1, s. 1. The original substantive text is not provided; only repeal notations appear, indicating the regulation is no longer in force.

Keeping a repealed regulation would create legal uncertainty, waste administrative resources, and risk enforcing obsolete rules. Its repeal indicates it was either ineffective, harmful, or unnecessary; restoring it would reintroduce those original flaws without any benefit.

Regulation document showing four sections all marked as repealed by SOR/2012-90, s. 5, with no active provisions remaining.

Already repealed; keeping dead law on books creates legal clutter, forces unnecessary verification of repeal status, and wastes administrative resources maintaining defunct text.

All 40 sections of this regulation have been repealed by SOR/2012-256, section 72. The regulation is no longer in effect and has been officially removed from the Canadian legal code.

The regulation has already been repealed and is obsolete. Keeping repealed regulations in the legal code creates unnecessary complexity and confusion without any regulatory benefit.

These regulations define how banks calculate regulatory capital for prudential oversight, specifying eligible components like shareholders' equity and subordinated debt with strict subordination requirements, and adjusting for cross-holdings in insurance and securities units to prevent double-counting across regulated financial entities.

Canadians would be worse off without these rules because bank failures destroy savings, disrupt payments, and create systemic contagion. Capital requirements constrain moral hazard inherent in fractional-reserve banking with deposit insurance and implicit government backstops. The subordination rules protect depositors' property rights by ensuring their claims rank ahead of hybrid capital instruments. Cross-entity adjustments prevent artificial inflation of capital ratios through double-counting—a flaw that market discipline alone would struggle to detect across complex corporate structures. While regulations impose compliance costs, the alternative—no capital standards—would invite excessive leverage, frequent bank collapses, and severe economic instability, undermining the property rights and contract enforcement that free markets require.

Regulation restricts trust and loan companies from engaging in insurance activities, defining authorized insurance types (credit card, creditors' disability/life/unemployment, vehicle inventory, export credit, mortgage, travel, personal accident) and prohibiting underwriting. It limits administration, advice, promotion, customer information sharing, telecommunications links, and physical proximity to insurance entities, with narrow exceptions for promotions to existing customers or general public outside branches. Grandfathers pre-1992 policies.

This regulation artificially partitions banking and insurance, suppressing competition and consumer choice. It prevents trust companies from offering integrated financial products that could reduce costs and increase convenience. The information-sharing ban and promotion restrictions protect incumbent insurance distributors from competition rather than consumers—market discipline and existing fraud laws would prevent abuse more efficiently. The 'authorized types' list is arbitrary government planning of financial products, distorting innovation. Canadians are worse off with fewer options, higher costs, and reduced financial interoperability.