I can. As I outlined in my opening remarks, it's not an automatic renewal. The licence is merely extended for a period of six months to allow the person who for reasons of either being away from Canada or for not having received their renewal notice, because many within Canada are certainly moving about because job markets are transient in nature.... If they haven't received their renewal or they haven't had the ability or opportunity to be able to renew their licence because of being out of Canada, they now have a six-month period of time whereby, hopefully, at the time they return to Canada they can come into compliance with the law.
The legislation, though, sets out specific things that they can't do. Once their licence has expired they can no longer go to a shooting range. They can no longer hunt with that. They can no longer use them in the public domain unless they were supervised by somebody who happens to be a holder of a valid PAL licence. What it does do then, or in addition, is it also takes away or cancels any authorizations to transport that they may have had for restricted firearms. Again, they can't be transporting those around. I just see this as being a common sense kind of thing to do.
The criticism of the existing legislation is that people are not necessarily getting the information they need. They're not getting their renewal notices. Again, there are a variety of reasons for not having done that. This seeks to allow people to come into compliance without having to go about taking the Canadian firearms safety course training and tests again. They've already had it when they obtained the PAL in the first instance. Really what's the purpose of it? I guess if once they've gone beyond the six-month period certainly then maybe there's a need for a refresher to remind them of their obligations.