I have a couple of anecdotes from the last couple of years.
It happened to my neighbour, who is a very avid hunter and very law-abiding. He's had his guns and magazines and shells in his gun safe for the last three years, because throughout COVID-19 he had not been able to get the renewal of his RPAL or his PAL, through no fault of his own. Actually, at one point in time they said, because people weren't getting their mail through Canada Post.... He has had to send his application in twice now, and obviously that grace period was gone so he missed two years of hunting, through no fault of his own. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances where law-abiding—