In the mandate letter for the Minister of Public Safety there is an ask of him to require the permanent alteration of magazines so they can never hold more than the legal number of rounds—which would be five for a rifle and 10 for a handgun—and then further, ban the sale or transfer of magazines that can hold more than the legal number of rounds.
For a police officer looking at a high-capacity magazine, is it easy to tell whether a magazine has been permanently altered, especially if it looks like a large-capacity magazine?