As you may know, the Canadian firearms program does have a regime in place right now to register restricted and prohibited firearms. That system inherently has a licence verification aspect attached to it, because if anyone is attempting to register a firearm, obviously they have to ensure that the licence is valid. The program does have the mechanism in place already to perform this function.
Currently, although it is not mandatory under the law, we do licence verification. In terms of any individual wishing to sell a firearm, or a business, and there are many businesses that as a matter of practice have instituted a certain form of mandatory licence verification. Businesses have a portal right now called “business web services” so that they can do that licence verification, and individuals or businesses can avail themselves of our 1-800 number to do licence verification. We are well equipped to manage that in the future.