Overview

• The review covers every federal department and agency, fulfilling Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to modernize regulations.
• Ministers must justify proposed eliminations under the oversight of a newly created Red Tape Reduction Office.
• Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is conducting a parallel expenditure review that demands ambitious savings proposals.
• Officials have refrained from setting numerical targets for rule cuts, opting for qualitative assessments of regulatory efficiency.
• Critics warn that the accelerated process could undermine environmental safeguards and Indigenous consultation procedures.