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Canada's Toys Regulations establish comprehensive safety standards for toys, including requirements for small parts, sharp edges, flammability, toxic substances, and specific construction standards. The regulation references numerous external standards (OECD, CSA, ISO) and includes detailed technical specifications, bilingual labeling requirements, and testing protocols.

The regulation imposes excessive prescriptive costs that reduce supply, increase prices, and stifle innovation. Outdated standards (e.g., 1972 CSA standard) and micromanaged technical specifications reflect regulatory capture rather than optimal safety. Liability rules, private certification, and general safety performance standards could achieve similar protection at lower cost, preserving consumer choice and competition while allowing market mechanisms to evolve with new materials and designs.

Comprehensive sanctions against North Korea prohibiting trade, investment, financial services, and technical data transfers, with limited humanitarian exceptions for food, medicine, and diplomatic missions.

These sanctions are critical for enforcing international pressure on North Korea's nuclear weapons program and human rights abuses. Removing them would undermine diplomatic efforts, enable North Korea's illicit activities, and reduce Canada's ability to participate in coordinated global security measures.

Five sections of a regulation (1-5) that have been repealed by SOR/2016-191, section 2.

These sections are already repealed and have no legal effect. Keeping them on the books would create confusion and serve no purpose.

Document listing sections 1-7 that have all been repealed by SOR/2016-169, s. 5. Contains no substantive regulatory provisions.

These sections are already repealed and therefore irrelevant. They represent no regulatory burden and require no further action.

This regulation designates the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC) as the authorized body for immigration consultants, allowing its members to represent clients for consideration in immigration proceedings. It also provides a transitional period for existing consultants from the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants to join the ICCRC without fees.

Creates artificial monopoly that restricts supply of immigration advisors, increases costs for immigrants seeking assistance, and reduces competition in an already complex system. The regulation protects incumbent consultants at the expense of immigrants and new market entrants, creating barriers to entry that reduce service quality and accessibility.

This regulation implements preferential tariff treatment for Colombian goods under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. It defines 'originating' goods per the agreement's rules of origin, sets documentation requirements for direct and transhipped shipments to qualify for lower tariffs, and establishes enforcement mechanisms for customs verification.

Keeping this regulation imposes ongoing compliance costs on importers, sustains a discriminatory tariff system that favors Colombian goods over others, and entrenches managed trade rather than achieving true free trade. The unseen cost is distorted supply chains as businesses source from Colombia to qualify for preferential treatment instead of the most efficient global supplier, plus the opportunity cost of not eliminating all tariffs unilaterally.

Defines 'casual goods' as non-commercial imports and sets marking requirements for goods from Colombia to qualify for preferential tariff treatment under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Imposes unnecessary compliance costs on importers and customs officials for a narrow administrative benefit. Marking requirements add complexity that distorts trade and increases costs without advancing free trade objectives in a way that simpler, broader rules couldn't achieve.

This regulation implements the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement by giving legal force to specific provisions, reducing trade barriers between the two countries.

Deleting it would reinstate tariffs and regulatory obstacles, harming Canadian exporters and consumers who benefit from lower prices and market access. The agreement's stable framework for trade and dispute resolution would be lost, requiring renegotiation and creating uncertainty.

Repeals Section 12.1 of the Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006, eliminating export charges on softwood lumber products effective July 1, 2011.

Deleting this repeal would keep the export charge in force, which distorts trade, reduces Canadian lumber competitiveness, imposes deadweight losses, and violates economic liberty by taxing voluntary international exchanges. The charge harms consumers and producers alike while protecting inefficient domestic policies.

This regulation increases pension benefits for RCMP members and their beneficiaries: pensions and lump-sum death benefits increase by 2% annually for 2011-2013 plan years, while residual amounts payable on widow's death use varying deemed contribution multipliers (1,173%-1,224%) depending on death year.

The regulation is obsolete - all effective dates (2011-2014) have passed over a decade ago. Its provisions have either been fully implemented or are no longer applicable. Keeping historical, time-specific orders creates regulatory clutter and legal uncertainty. The original flaw was codifying specific political benefit increases into permanent regulations rather than passing them as time-limited policies.

Transitional regulation for British Columbia's 2013 HST disengagement, setting 0% tax rate and special calculation rules for property, benefits, performance bonds, and anti-avoidance provisions specifically for the 2013 period.

Obsolete transitional measure with no current application; keeping it adds regulatory clutter, maintenance burden, and risk of misinterpretation while providing zero benefit to Canadians.

Procedural rules for the Specific Claims Tribunal governing filing, service, hearings, evidence, and case management to achieve just, timely, and cost-effective resolution of Indigenous specific claims against the Crown, with provisions for cultural diversity and flexibility.

Canadians would face chaotic, unfair, and inefficient resolution of specific claims, with increased costs and delays. The rules ensure orderly proceedings, fairness, and timely outcomes, which would be difficult to achieve without a structured framework.

This regulation imposes economic sanctions on Syria and designated Syrian individuals and entities. It prohibits Canadians from dealing with property of listed persons, exporting certain goods to Syria, and requires financial institutions to conduct due diligence and disclose holdings. It includes limited humanitarian exemptions and provides a process for removal from the list.

The regulation imposes substantial compliance costs on Canadian financial institutions and businesses while achieving negligible foreign policy benefits. Sanctions historically strengthen authoritarian regimes by allowing them to control scarce resources and shift blame to external actors, while harming ordinary Syrians and restricting Canadians' economic liberty. The detailed list-based approach is unworkable, prone to errors, and creates ongoing administrative burdens that reduce Canada's competitiveness.

This regulation establishes procedures for indemnifying and advancing costs to directors and officers of Crown corporations who face legal actions or proceedings. It defines key terms, sets out request procedures, establishes approval thresholds ($100K, $250K, over $250K), and creates obligations for recipients including repayment conditions and reporting requirements.

Canadians would be worse off if this regulation was deleted because it provides essential protection for public servants who serve on Crown corporation boards. Without these indemnification provisions, qualified individuals would be deterred from serving in these roles due to personal liability risks, potentially leading to less competent governance of public enterprises and reduced accountability in Crown corporations.

Prescribes specific financial products (deposit type instruments and principal protected notes) as subject to certain provisions in the Cooperative Credit Associations Act and Trust and Loan Companies Act. Came into force November 1, 2011.

Creates regulatory complexity without clear consumer benefit. Financial products should be evaluated on merit, not prescribed status. This regulation adds compliance costs and restricts market innovation while achieving no demonstrable protection that couldn't be accomplished through disclosure or contractual arrangements.