Good morning.
Many of you will recall that in October 2011, the ending the long-gun registry bill was introduced in the House. In April 2012, the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act came into force. That act had two primary objectives. The first was to end the registration of long guns in Canada. The second was to destroy the long-gun registry data. The second objective of destroying the data is primarily to respect the privacy rights of Canadians who had registered their long guns.
The amendments in the budget implementation act are intended to comprehensively address that second objective by ensuring that no other act of Parliament, including the Access to Information Act, would compromise that key objective of destroying the data. Put simply, the amendments to the budget implementation act address a gap in the original Ending the Long-gun Registry Act.
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