Federal regulationCanada Gazette, Part IComment Period Closed
Order No. 2 Designating the Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area
Sponsoring body: Fisheries and Oceans, Dept. ofIntroduced December 23, 2023Last checked August 25, 2026
Read the official text on gazette.gc.caOfficial version — Canada Gazette, Part I
What this regulation does
This order replaces the original 2019 Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area designation with a new five-year ministerial order (up to 2029), continuing to freeze human activities in Canada's High Arctic marine area off northern Ellesmere Island while the government completes long-term protection planning with Inuit partners.
Plain-language summary by Legisail.
Business impact
Compliance
The regulation has minimal impact on businesses because there are currently no commercial fisheries, oil and gas licences, or significant vessel traffic in this extremely remote, ice-covered area. The RIAS explicitly states that replacing the existing 2019 order with this new order results in no incremental costs or impacts to businesses or other stakeholders, since the same rules were already in place. The small business lens was determined not to apply, and the one-for-one rule does not apply because no administrative burden is imposed on businesses. Any theoretical future interest in petroleum extraction or commercial activity remains highly speculative and is separately constrained by a federal Arctic offshore oil and gas moratorium through at least 2035.
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Proposed
Comment period closed
Final publicationPending
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