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Establishes that subsection 132(1) of the Public Service Employment Act applies to specific units within the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, covering Email, Data Centre and Network Services and their support functions, effective November 15, 2011.

These regulations ensure proper employment standards and protections for specialized technical staff in nuclear safety infrastructure, preventing potential disruptions to critical systems that could affect public safety and regulatory oversight.

This regulation applies Public Service Employment Act provisions to specific IT units within the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, governing employment terms for technical staff in email, data centre, and network services roles.

Creates unnecessary bureaucratic complexity for IT operations within a government agency. Modern IT functions should be managed under standard employment frameworks rather than special regulatory carve-outs, which add administrative overhead without meaningful benefits.

Minimal regulation defining applicability of the Public Service Employment Act to two specific units within Canada Revenue Agency (Email, Data Centre and Network Services Unit and Support Unit) and setting an effective date of November 15, 2011.

This regulation contains no substantive rules, restrictions, or requirements—it merely states that existing public service employment law applies to specific government units and when it takes effect. It adds zero regulatory burden, but also zero value; it's a procedural notice that could be repealed without affecting any actual governance, as the underlying statutory authority remains unaffected. Its deletion would simplify the regulatory landscape with no cost to Canadians.

Prescribes specific entity types (partnerships, business trusts, and unlimited liability corporations/companies) and all mortgages issued after January 1, 2012, as subject to the special rules of paragraph 10(2)(b) of the Interest Act.

Creates arbitrary distinctions that impose additional regulatory burdens and compliance costs on certain business structures and mortgage instruments, distorting financial markets and increasing borrowing costs without clear justification. The blanket prescription of all post-2012 mortgages is overbroad and treats legitimate commercial activity as suspect.

Federal regulation establishing record-keeping requirements for not-for-profit corporations, including member/officer registers, notice periods, corporate name restrictions, and voting procedures.

Creates administrative burden and compliance costs for small organizations without clear public benefit. Many provisions are overly prescriptive, limiting organizational flexibility and innovation in governance structures.

The regulation consists of seven sections (1-7) that have been repealed by SOR/2016-194, section 6.

Already repealed. Has no legal effect and is obsolete.

Customs duty remission for specific companies importing products for processing, with claims due by September 30, 2013, and retroactive to the registration date.

Creates arbitrary, company-specific tax breaks that distort market competition, establish precedent for political favoritism, and waste administrative resources on selective enforcement rather than uniform trade policy.

These are repealed regulations from 2016, originally governing certain federal administrative procedures.

Already repealed and obsolete, representing regulatory cleanup of outdated administrative procedures that were no longer serving their intended purpose.

Designates Saskatchewan for criminal code provisions related to payday loans, implementing provincial payday loans legislation by making certain payday lending practices criminal offenses when they violate provincial regulations.

Criminalizes payday lending practices that violate provincial regulations, creating unnecessary overlap between provincial and federal law. The same regulatory goals could be achieved through provincial enforcement alone without federal criminal penalties, which add enforcement costs and create potential for over-criminalization of financial transactions.

A regulation consisting of three sections, all repealed by SOR/2016-173, with no remaining substantive provisions.

The regulation is fully repealed and thus obsolete. Its complete repeal suggests it was either ineffective or imposed unnecessary costs without achieving its intended goals.

Excise Tax Indexing Ratio Regulations setting specific multipliers (1.35559, 1.99924, 1.37078, 1.88464) for adjusting excise tax rates on September 1, 1983 and September 1, 1984.

This regulation is substantively obsolete, applying only to specific dates in 1983-1984. It serves no current legal purpose, imposes no ongoing costs, but clutters the statute books and creates unnecessary verification burdens. Repealed or not, such time-specific historical provisions should be removed to maintain regulatory clarity.

This order declares the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation as a recognized band under the Indian Act and defines its membership based on a specific list of founding members submitted on February 14, 2023.

Deletion would strip official recognition from the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, undermining its self-governance and ability to deliver services to members. The regulation provides necessary legal certainty for the band's existence and membership within Canada's constitutional framework—a function difficult to replicate without such formal state recognition.

No substantive regulation text provided - only three sections marked as repealed by SOR/2016-165.

Regulation is already repealed and therefore irrelevant; original document contained no active provisions to review.

Bans use of terms 'light', 'mild', and variations/modifiers in promotion, packaging, sale, or display of tobacco products and accessories to prevent misleading health claims.

These terms were empirically shown to mislead consumers about health risks, distorting choice for addictive products with large public health externalities. Industry-wide coordinated use made private enforcement infeasible; this narrow prohibition prevents demonstrable deception at minimal liberty cost. Canadians would be worse off with resumed misleading marketing increasing smoking and healthcare burdens.

Procedural rules for the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal covering filing, service, time limits, motions, hearings, evidence, and witnesses, aiming for informal, expeditious proceedings with party rights respected.

Deleting these rules would create uncertainty and procedural chaos in whistleblower cases, undermining the ability to expose government corruption. The rules provide essential structure and fair process while granting Tribunal discretion to vary them (Rule 3), balancing predictability with flexibility in a way that ad hoc decision-making cannot reliably achieve.