Doug Shipley at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 17th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 17th, 2022 / 12:40 p.m.

Conservative

Doug Shipley Conservative Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, ON

Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

I'll start off with Mr. Hipwell.

Mr. Hipwell, this committee heard from Solomon Friedman, the foremost legal scholar and lawyer on firearms and firearms legislation, just this past February 10, that Canada needs a “top to bottom rethink of how we classify firearms”, and that we need two things in this classification system: (a) that it be evidenced-based and (b) that it be based upon function, not appearance.

Do you agree with Mr. Friedman's assessment?

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