Finance committee  No. As I said before, we have no information, but we would cooperate with any investigation.

Finance committee  We were invited to appear here, so we've appeared. We can answer your questions to the best of our ability, but it would be inappropriate, as I said already, for us to comment on legislation. That is not the role of the RCMP. Our role is to apply and comply with the law. All we

Finance committee  Yes, I think that is probably a way of characterizing it. What I will say is that we had two obligations. One was the obligation under the Access to Information Act to provide information. The other obligation was to meet what was stated in the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act

Finance committee  To start with, yes, I can confirm that the data was deleted, and it is not available. As far as the legislation that's before you is concerned, I think to provide a response on that would probably require our colleagues at Justice to give you that answer. But I can assure you tha

Finance committee  As I said in my opening comments, the actual data was deleted in October of 2012 following the approved implementation plan, which was, I guess, close to six months after the coming into force.

Finance committee  Again, without getting into the technicalities of the legislation, my understanding is that it would require data that's in the registry to be deleted, or data that was part of the registry to be deleted.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  I'm not in a position to explain that. As I said earlier, we were not involved or consulted in the drafting of this legislation. It would be inappropriate for me to provide any comments as to the reasons. I think the dates are for the tabling and then the coming into force of th

Finance committee  Which process do you mean?

Finance committee  It was the RCMP's responsibility to comply with the access to information legislation, which we did by maintaining a copy of the information contained in fields that were relevant and responsive, as I said in my opening comments, and that didn't contain private information. We ma

Finance committee  We have no comments on that. We have no information and no comment.

Finance committee  We have no comment on the investigation and no information on it.

Finance committee  You would have to ask our colleagues from Justice on that. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not in a position to comment on that.

Finance committee  I don't think I'm in a position to provide that kind of advice.

Finance committee  What happened was that we developed a plan to implement the Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act. In the run-up to its coming into force, we developed that plan and, following consultation with senior government officials, it was approved. Once the legislation came into effect, we pr