A law enacted in 2015 to reduce federal red tape imposed on Canadians and small businesses has achieved little, says a report by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
Released in December, the agency’s “Report on the Internal Review of the Red Tape Reduction Act” states that there is a “disconnect” between what the law purports to achieve and the actual result.
Bill C-21, the Red Tape Reduction Act which received royal assent in April 2015, requires the elimination of one regulation for every new regulation created, under a “one-for-one rule,” established by Parliament in April 2012, to control the “administrative burden” that regulations impose on businesses….