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Public Safety committee Absolutely.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee Some of it is in my brief. Some of it pertains to who your PAL references can be. I don't think they should be immediate family members or close friends. Passport requirements are stricter, but you can't shoot somebody with a passport. I've mentioned the stage A failure override and the system data, and I've also read, for example—although it's not confirmed and it's been in newspaper reports—that due to resource levels, references are rarely contacted, if ever.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee Sure. I like to think that we're joined at the hip.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee A renewal.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee Continue your sentence, because I want to know what you're referencing when you reference the firearms officer there.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee Yes, definitely.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee I vehemently disagree with the delegated authority of chief firearms officers to override those stage A failures for somebody with this sort of background. However, as I said before, that's not the only difficulty we have in the licensing system right now, which is the Canadian firearms information system.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee I would need to think more about that question, but I can say this in response. I often hear about the rights of hunters and ranchers in rural areas to defend their property and so on and so forth. In fact, when the long gun registry was rescinded, a submission to the committee at that time said that rural women experiencing domestic violence feel far more terror if there is a long gun in the home and that the long gun itself might be used as part of the terror.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee I should clarify, as I just said, that because of the privacy law in Ontario I wasn't able to find out exactly who his references were on the PAL application, but the application as it currently stands is not very stringent. Apart from excluding conjugal partners, anybody can be a reference on a gun licence application.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons
Public Safety committee What I'm not clear about in that case was whether all that was done.... I know that because he was extensively interviewed, he would have encountered what is known as a stage A failure or a red flag in the system. That's what precipitated the interview. However, what I can't determine because of privacy barriers is whether the only other check that was done was a CPIC check and a CFIS check.
May 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Alison Irons