Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank Mr. Farrant and Mr. Bernardo for being here today. It is greatly appreciated.
I have a few questions. I would like to go back to the firearms licence authorization and the six-month grace period proposed by the bill.
Criminal charges can be laid the day after someone’s firearms licence expires if it has not been renewed. That’s a problem.
I tried to consult with various police forces and experts to find out what the best solution is. I still have a lot of questions about this possibility as presented in Bill C-42. You seem to have studied the bill but we have diverging opinions about the outcome.
Here is my first question.
You are representing the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters and the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. I am not sure whether you know, but have several of your members been arrested in recent years because they did not renew their licences? Is that common?