Public Safety committee  We don't anticipate a large scale. As I mentioned, the majority of these authorizations to transport that we're talking about are single purpose ATTs. They are for a single firearm to a single location at a single period of time. Examples might be transportation to a gun show, tr

Public Safety committee  As you may know, the Canadian firearms program does have a regime in place right now to register restricted and prohibited firearms. That system inherently has a licence verification aspect attached to it, because if anyone is attempting to register a firearm, obviously they have

Public Safety committee  Yes, certainly. With Bill C-71, we would therefore be doing licence verification for non-restricted firearms. We don't have concrete numbers as to how many non-restricted firearms are currently being acquired, because there are no means to be able to record that. However, as me

Public Safety committee  No, we don't. As mentioned, prior to Bill C-42 coming into effect in 2015, the program was issuing authorization to transport, for all purposes, what we would call single purpose ATTs. In essence, this is a return to a practice that we are well versed and practised in providing.

Public Safety committee  I can't speak to the notion of a safety risk, but I can speak to the determinations of classification that are made today. When the experts within the Canadian firearms program make the determinations of classifications, those determinations form part of a record which is known a

Public Safety committee  When speaking of restricted firearms, most people think of handguns. Some handguns may also be qualified as prohibited. For example, certain short-barrelled firearms, such as a Second World War luger, may be deemed to be a prohibited firearm. There are other types of firearms tha

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, sir. I don't know if we understood. What was the question?

Public Safety committee  I guess I can only speak to the portion of your question that relates to firearms licensing. This element, to look at the entire life history of an individual, applies to new applicants and to those renewing firearms. Every five years an individual is asked to answer five persona

Public Safety committee  We have approximately 2.1 million firearms licence holders in Canada right now. I believe we have roughly about 250,000 new applicants per year and roughly about 150,000 individuals who are renewing on an annual basis.

Public Safety committee  The only thing I would add in relation to your question is that prior to 2015, when the regime existed, where there were no authorizations to transport automatically added as a condition on the firearms licence, everyone was required to apply for an authorization to transport for

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.