Yes, thank you.
Thanks particularly to Ms. Clarke, because she's covered some of the points I was going to make.
The attempt here, and my amendment, was to deal with orders. They would fall short of criminal convictions. They're not covered at all by subsection 5(2) of the Firearms Act. They would deal with such things as restraining orders, between intimate partners, to stay away from a woman who feels threatened by a former partner. That would not come to the attention of a firearms officer or a judge under subsection 5(2) of the Firearms Act, but would come to the attention of them in the way either my amendment or the new LIB-1 was put forward.
I know it was put forward as a hypothetical by Ms. Clarke that the threatening conduct might be toward an animal. Because these things can get misreported, I want to make sure everyone understands that hunting is not at all in the ambit of LIB-1. Legal hunting activities do not constitute threatening actions. The animal part would come in if an ex-husband said to his former partner, “I'm going to kill the dog.” That would be a very threatening act of violence, in fact, for people who are willing to do such violent things for the purpose of harming a specific person, in other words, their former intimate partner. That would be pretty threatening.
I will reassure Mr. Motz that this is not an amendment that would in any way, shape, or form affect legal hunting activities and the right for legal hunters to have a firearm at home. This is not the goal of this amendment.
That's all I need to say. I really do think this is a strong amendment. It's not moot. It's not redundant to existing legislation. It adds something important without being overly broad.