Public Safety committee  I think there are a few holes that could be plugged in the system. I'll give you an example. During the PAL application process, you have to provide two references from people who have known you for two years or longer. If you're married or common-law, then your spouse has to si

Public Safety committee  Gun owners have lived under progressively more and more gun control over the last 30 years. Handguns in particular—any restricted firearm—are some of the most strictly regulated properties that a civilian can have. There are a myriad of regulations: storage regulations, transport

Public Safety committee  I think police in general want anything dangerous out of the hands of anyone. They're supportive of banning airsoft. They're supportive of banning toys because they look like real guns, and I get that. They're always going to err on the side of officer safety and public safety un

Public Safety committee  I teach the PAL course, and I've run 3,500 people through that course. I did it a long time, and I will say there were probably, to be honest, 10 or 20 people who didn't make it—twice—through the course. I did advise them not to buy any firearms, because it just wasn't something

Public Safety committee  I don't think there's anything to respond to there.

Public Safety committee  It's my position that those are outlier events, depending on how you define mass shooting. There have been anywhere from seven to 15 of those in the last 60 years in Canada, so they happen very infrequently. They're terrible. No one's ever said that they weren't awful, absolutely

Public Safety committee  Our firearm suicides account for 14% to 16% of overall suicides in Canada. There are 4,000 suicides a year—

Public Safety committee  Yes. One suicide is too many, but there are already—

Public Safety committee  We are, and we are doing an incredible.... We have some of the toughest gun control laws on planet Earth—

Public Safety committee  I support any law that has a demonstrable positive effect on public safety.

Public Safety committee  We limit firearms in homes.

Public Safety committee  I can't speak for the Association of Chiefs of Police. They've given you their opinion and I've given you mine.

Public Safety committee  I don't know. I'd have to think about it a bit more.

Public Safety committee  I think the laws that we have right now are adequate. Firearms can be removed from anyone's home at a moment's notice if there's a safety concern—

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure how we can get any better than that without banning guns.