One is the provision in Bill C-21 for protection orders. If a person becomes the subject of a protection order for violence or abuse of women and they're a licensed gun owner, their gun licence and their guns will be immediately forfeited or seized for the duration of the protection order. That could be up to two years.
The other problem they're seeing in Britain is that, because the Crown is not prosecuting enough of these cases, the number of police charges or efforts to have someone charged is somewhat declining. I think the education of Crown counsel and judges is extremely important. In Britain, initially 50% were failing in court because the defence counsel and the judges believed violence should be an element of a coercive control prosecution, which is simply not true.
