I just think that this seems like a ridiculous exercise.
We know that licensed, vetted handgun owners are not responsible for almost all violent handgun crimes that are committed in this country. These paperwork requirements that we're adding on are doing nothing to improve public safety.
We're talking about when somebody doesn't go to a range for over a period of a year, they will have their ability to own a handgun revoked if they can't provide this annual letter, and now, as a government, we're micromanaging what this letter has to say. We're putting in this huge paperwork requirement on all of these clubs and sporting associations across the country to deal with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of members.
Who's receiving these letters? Is it the chief firearms officers who will be receiving these letters? We already have a huge backlog...or we have had backlogs in the past with getting people's possession and acquisition licence and other things. Now it's going to be the CFO's job to review hundreds of thousands of letters on an annual basis, all so that we can prove whether or not somebody has shown up at a club at any time in the past year and whether they've met these prescribed minimum requirements.
This seems like we're making rules for the sake of making rules and making it look like we're doing something, when there is absolutely no evidence to prove that providing this annual letter—and the NDP was originally proposing to provide this every six months—is actually going to improve public safety in any way.
The CFOs can maybe answer my question.
Presumably it would be your job to review these letters, would it not?