Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I mentioned earlier, when the bill was first tabled on March 20, we began to receive inquiries and realized that there was a need to provide some information. Therefore, discussions started fairly early in late March around the need to provide communications. We reached out to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe so. Within the Canadian firearms program, I don't think anyone is under any belief that this particular legislation was, or is, law. As I said, we've been working with the machinations of Bill C-71 now, for let's say, almost two years. We're very alive to that, but our

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Information that is subject to cabinet confidence doesn't go beyond the management team and those who have the appropriate security clearances to look at that information. It is at that level that the strategic communications messaging is crafted, in terms of, to paraphrase the d

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I am not able to answer that question specifically. I can tell you that the communications product itself really has two parts. One part is the information package that we prepared for individuals to self-identify whether or not the firearm they own might be affect

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In this case, the text would have been preliminarily approved by me, as one of the directors, and then ultimately, by the director general of the Canadian firearms program.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be the director general of the Canadian firearms program, in this particular instance. As the deputy mentioned earlier, there may be times when we are communicating something that is at a much more strategic level or for which we might be aligned with other departments.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Special business bulletins, in reference to the Canadian firearms program, would be approved at the director general level, but depending on the nature of those bulletins, for example, if we anticipated a reaction and if we were saying something that we would acknowledge might no

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think we have an approval process for pending legislation, because, as far as I am aware, this is the first time we've actually commented on aspects of pending legislation. Once a bill has become law, we will often speak to the differences between what royal assent may me

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Thank you very much for the question. As you can appreciate, there have been three firearms bills since 2012, Bill C-19, Bill C-42 and Bill C-71. The program has been and remains intimately involved in the preparation of some cases and in early consultation on those bills

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As you can appreciate, there are many facets to Bill C-71. It is not the program's normal practice to speak to legislation that is before the House or the Senate. One element of Bill C-71 had the potential to impact firearms owners because of the date of June 30 that was written

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was, yes, absolutely. The program had been fairly involved with Public Safety in some of the early drafting of this legislation. I had appeared before parliamentarians with the minister on the night the bill was introduced. I was preparing for my appearance before SECU on this

Public Safety committee  In reference to section 102, if you look at the definition of an inspector under section 101, it is a firearms officer. Section 102 is just to ensure compliance with the record-keeping requirements. What you are talking about in terms of inspection of the records for the purpos

Public Safety committee  Sorry, I know the question was directed to me, but I'm not aware of the practices in the United States.

Public Safety committee  Sir, if I can operationally explain.... The licence verification element exists today. Individuals can check the validity of a licence. In doing so, the process generally assumes that both parties are present when that is occurring so that a person isn't just arbitrarily check t

Public Safety committee  That's the current practice because in most cases where we are doing licence verification, both parties tend to be present so that the seller has all of the related information because we don't just ask for the licence number of the buyer. We ask for the licence number. We ask fo