Okay, that's good.
The other issue I have with this is in the new amended paragraph (d). We see that we're talking about “is or was previously prohibited by an order—made in the interests of the safety and security of any person—from communicating with an identified person or from being at a specific place or within a specific distance of that place”.
I appreciate the wording here is made in the interests of security and safety of another person, which would eliminate someone getting a peace bond for shoplifting and they can't go to the mall, that sort of thing. I'm wondering whether “was previously prohibited by an order” is so incredibly broad that if someone has a complaint made against them and in the [Technical difficulty—Editor] bail hearing, that individual has a condition placed on their bail that would fall under this, and then they're found to be not guilty, this would prohibit them potentially from ever acquiring a PAL, or potentially they could lose a PAL down the road.
I'm wondering how that would possibly be interpreted. There are frivolous and vexatious complaints made that, yes, the CFO then has discretion to go and ask for police reports, but in the interim that individual could be flagged that he has a PAL; the CFO could come and seize his firearms, or the police could, obviously, while he's waiting. That could have significant long-term impacts on whether he gets his PAL back or his firearms back on a frivolous and vexatious complaint.
With “previously prohibited by an order”, I know we're trying to capture those who have committed a violent offence, and are convicted of a violent offence, and they had an order at one point in time, and we don't want them to be a risk to public safety. We get it. We support the whole idea of preventing those who should not have a firearm, should not have access to a firearm, should not have access to a PAL, from getting one, but I'm wondering whether this is so broad that it's reaching beyond what we are interpreting or expecting this act to be like.