What I was able to establish, and also had confirmed by the chief superintendent of the criminal investigation branch of the OPP, is that in large court jurisdictions like the GTA, criminal record information, or charge or domestic violence information, is transmitted electronically to CPIC and CFIS. In smaller jurisdictions, it's very often sent by paper.
With my experience in government, that often leads to delays in data entry and loss of paper. In smaller or remote communities, some court jurisdictions never send data at all. That means with the gaps in the system right now—and by the system, I mean the Canadian firearms information system—licences are being granted on the basis of incomplete or out-of-date information.
I don't think it's any surprise to anybody on this committee that there have been chronic delays even in the ability of the RCMP to keep CPIC up to date. I think chronically and historically, it's run about six months behind. I don't know if that's the current situation.