Public Safety committee  Obviously, the advice we give to our ministers is protected by solicitor-client privilege. As my colleague has indicated, we do a robust charter analysis of all draft legislation, including motions. I can't give you an answer to that without violating solicitor-client privilege.

Public Safety committee  Do you mean that it's gone through the approval process?

Public Safety committee  Whenever we draft legislation, we provide our ministers and decision-makers with a full suite of analyses, from a policy perspective and all relevant legal aspects.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  There's nothing in the amendment that changes the current law around antique firearms.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry. Your question is....

Public Safety committee  In the proposed amendment, if these were actually regulated firearms.... If they had a velocity over 152.4 metres per second and a muzzle velocity in excess of 5.7, then they would be regulated firearms. If you had a replica of a regulated firearm, then it would be prohibited.

Public Safety committee  That's in order to be captured. If your example does not meet the definition of a regulated firearm, then it would not be a replica.

Public Safety committee  That would be the threshold.

Public Safety committee  Hi. I just want to recap to make sure we're on the same page. Your example is a new firearm that is designed in the future and produced in the future, which is capable of—

Public Safety committee  Okay. I can speak to the law, and maybe Ms. Paquette can jump in if I'm making a mistake. The way the definition is drafted is that it's meant to capture any firearm that is capable of receiving a magazine that can hold more than the legal limit, so in this case it would be six

Public Safety committee  I don't have the technical expertise to answer that question. I would defer to the CFP for that.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  I would just remind the committee that the evergreen definition and schedule 2 would come into force by an order in council and, during that time, the Canadian firearms program would have an opportunity to review the firearms reference table to identify which firearms may be capt

Public Safety committee  It has been prepared. It is being vetted through our approval process to be able to forward it to the committee.