Evidence of meeting #6 for Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was police.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Derek Lee Liberal Scarborough—Rouge River, ON
Of course all the bad offences and all the bad guys, yes, that's right. But the net also includes possessing ammunition and transferring ammunition, even if you haven't shot a bullet, even if you don't have a gun. That's all I'm asking for the acknowledgement of.
5 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bernard Patry
I would like to thank all the witnesses.
Do you have something else to add?
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Liberal
5 p.m.
Sergeant, New Westminster Police Service, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
I'll keep it very short.
I acknowledge the point you're trying to make here, and I think you have to realize that in any legislation you put forward, you have that human factor where the police are part of the process, where we actually go through the bail process with the JPs in the bill application. We have, obviously, the intelligence and the information before us, from who we're dealing with, to be able to determine when you have somebody who's a hardened criminal who is clearly a threat to the public safety, as opposed to somebody who is naive and has kind of wandered into a trap and has a handful of bullets. So I think that human factor side is your safety net to make sure, because we certainly don't want to go down that road either and just arbitrarily put everybody who falls under that category in. I think that's how it would play out.
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Liberal
5 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bernard Patry
I would like to thank the witnesses from the Canadian Police Association and those from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police for having appeared before the committee this afternoon.
Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.