Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have another question for the two RCMP representatives, Deputy Commissioner Larkin and Ms. Paquette.
Can you tell us whether the RCMP's role remains the same for a weapon made in Canada and one made outside Canada? Do the same rules apply?
I understood from our various meetings that the RCMP is not automatically notified when a new weapon enters the market. Could there not be some preauthorization process before a weapon hits the market? I don't know what happens with Health Canada, for example, but just for comparison purposes, before introducing a new pill to the Canadian market, I would imagine that a major pharmaceutical firm would first have to submit it to Health Canada for compliance purposes.
Getting back to firearms, the current process is to launch a weapon in the Canadian market and when the RCMP learns about it, it classifies it. Couldn't it be done the other way around? I would imagine that you understand what I'm talking about here.
Can you tell us what happens now, both for weapons made in Canada and elsewhere?