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Regulation establishes emission standards for small recreational engines and vehicles (outboards, personal watercraft, snowmobiles, ATVs, utility vehicles, off-road motorcycles) by incorporating US EPA standards via CFR references. Requires compliance with specific exhaust, evaporative, and crankcase emission limits; mandates national emissions mark labeling; imposes diagnostic system requirements; and prohibits defeat devices. Creates a conformity authorization system and fleet averaging options for manufacturers.

Imposes significant compliance costs on manufacturers of primarily recreational equipment for emissions that could be addressed more efficiently through liability rules, property rights enforcement, and market preferences. Command-and-control standards reduce innovation, raise consumer prices, and may shrink supply of certain vehicle types. The knowledge problem prevents regulators from optimally balancing marginal abatement costs against benefits, and the regulatory apparatus diverts resources from productive uses. Environmental benefits are modest relative to costs in this niche market, and unseen costs include suppressed competition and reduced product variety.

A temporary 1984-85 regulation granting customs duty remissions to importers of unfinished leather who further finish it domestically, designed to subsidize the Canadian leather garment manufacturing industry.

Obsolete and fundamentally flawed. The regulation's enforcement window (1984-85 imports, 3-year use/claim periods) expired decades ago, making it a dead letter. Even when active, it embodied objectionable interventionism: discriminatory corporate welfare picking winners, distorting market incentives, and undermining free trade by penalizing unfettered competition. Maintaining this zombie law creates legal clutter and uncertainty while celebrating failed mercantilist thinking.

This document appears to be a repealed regulation with all sections (1-17 and 15A) having been revoked by SI/2011-20, section 28. No substantive regulatory text remains; the document is merely a skeletal framework showing the structure of what was previously regulated.

Already repealed in 2011—legally dead and should be formally expunged to reduce regulatory clutter and confusion. Retaining repealed provisions creates legal uncertainty and wastes administrative resources maintaining obsolete records.

Bilateral social security agreement between Canada and Romania that coordinates pension systems to prevent double coverage, totalize contribution periods for eligibility, and enable cross-border benefit payments.

Canadians would be worse off without it: cross-border workers would face double mandatory contributions, fragmented pension credits leading to ineligibility, and administrative barriers to claiming benefits. It achieves portability and prevents double coverage in a way private markets cannot, given compulsory pension systems in both countries.

International social security agreement between Canada and Macedonia to coordinate pension benefits, allowing creditable periods from one country to count toward eligibility in the other, preventing double taxation, and ensuring benefits can be paid across borders.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because this agreement protects Canadians working or retiring in Macedonia (and vice versa) from losing pension benefits they've earned, prevents double taxation, and ensures retirement security for citizens who move between countries.

This Order withdraws specific territorial lands in the Eeyou Marine Region (Nunavut/Quebec boundary) from disposal to facilitate a Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement with the Crees of Quebec, with a time-limited withdrawal ending November 30, 2013. It exempts pre-existing mineral and petroleum rights from the freeze and defines precise geographic boundaries, excluding certain islands per the Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement.

The regulation is obsolete—its withdrawal period expired in 2013. Even when active, it violated core principles by restricting voluntary disposal of federal lands, blocking market allocation, and preventing productive development. The intervention created deadweight loss and distorted incentives, serving only to delay or prevent value-creating uses while advancing a political negotiation that could be achieved through consensual contracts rather than coercion.

Remission of export certificate fees exceeding $75 for Canadian Food Inspection Agency fees during October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2013, conditional on inspection by accredited veterinarian.

Fee remission creates market distortions and unequal treatment. The veterinarian accreditation requirement is a credentialing barrier that restricts supply of inspection services, increases costs, and reduces competition. Temporary, selective interventions undermine price signals and incentivize rent-seeking rather than productivity.

One-time waiver of Canadian Coast Guard marine navigation fees for 2011 for carriers operating between north and south of 60°N latitude.

Obsolete yet illustrative of flawed policy: selective subsidy distorts shipping economics, imposes hidden taxpayer costs, and violates equal treatment while encouraging inefficient routes.

The Minister recommends against listing Bocaccio rockfish, Canary rockfish, and Lake Winnipeg physa under the Species at Risk Act, opting instead to manage them under the Fisheries Act with voluntary catch reductions, comprehensive monitoring, and integrated co-management programs to conserve populations while avoiding severe economic disruption.

Canadians would be worse off if deleted because listing would trigger SARA's rigid prohibitions, imposing $27.5M in annual profit losses, eliminating 700 fishing jobs, and halting coastal development and other industries. This regulation achieves conservation through flexible, adaptive management—such as voluntary harvest cuts, real-time monitoring, and transferable quotas—that would be impossible under SARA's blanket bans, proving that species protection can coexist with economic vitality and individual liberty.

Withdraws subsurface rights in territorial lands to facilitate Gwich'in Land Use Plan establishment, covering specific parcels in Northwest Territories with various exemptions for existing mineral claims, leases, and exploration activities until January 31, 2014.

Restricts land use and resource development without market-based compensation, creating artificial scarcity and preventing productive economic activity that would benefit Canadians through job creation and wealth generation.

Grants remission of revocation tax to charities that participated in Quebec's Financial Assistance Program for Domestic Help Services, conditional on applying for revocation and remission within nine months.

Creates unequal tax treatment, adds complexity, and incentivizes rent-seeking by rewarding participation in specific government programs, violating principles of neutrality and rule of law.

All six sections (1-6) are repealed by SI/2011-111, s. 5. The document contains no active regulatory provisions.

Already repealed and obsolete. Its prior existence likely imposed compliance burdens and market distortions without sufficient justification, as evidenced by the repeal decision.

This regulation consists of sections 1-6, all marked as repealed by SI/2011-92, s. 5. No substantive text remains, only repealing notations indicating the entire regulation has been removed from effect.

All provisions are already repealed, representing no current regulatory burden. Repealed regulations should be permanently removed from active codes to reduce clutter and focus on living regulations. Maintaining repealed text serves no practical purpose and may create confusion.

This Order withdraws approximately 4,090 km² of Crown land in the Northwest Territories from disposal to establish the Saoyú–Æehdacho National Historic Site, protecting areas sacred to the Sahtu Dene and Métis. It includes exemptions for pre-existing mineral claims and petroleum interests under the Canada Petroleum Resources Act and Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations.

Deletion would breach treaty obligations under the Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement and risk permanent loss of a culturally and spiritually significant landscape. The withdrawal is the only secure mechanism to prevent future disposal and resource development that would desecrate this historic site, while respecting already-established property rights through its narrow exemptions.

Document lists sections 1-5 of a regulation that were repealed by Statutory Instrument SI/2011-58, section 5. These provisions are no longer part of the active regulatory framework.

These regulations were repealed in 2011 and are no longer in force. Their removal from active law suggests they were deemed unnecessary or harmful. Keeping repealed provisions in the consolidated text creates regulatory clutter and potential confusion; they should be fully excised to maintain legal clarity and reduce unnecessary regulatory references.