Public Safety committee  It works very well.

Public Safety committee  I can explain it, sir. It relates to the chain of custody, in the sense that if the firearm were found and a trace were initiated on that firearm that brought the firearm back to you, as being the lawful owner of that firearm—

Public Safety committee  Because the business record-keeping requirements that are also introduced in Bill C-71 would obligate businesses to record their first point of sale. The first point of sale, presumably, in the example I'm giving, would lead to you as the person who acquired that firearm from a v

Public Safety committee  No, we are not. Do you mean relating to the business and the business-keeping records?

Public Safety committee  No. The businesses themselves would be the custodians of those records.

Public Safety committee  The period of validity related to the reference number is not tied to the firearms transaction itself but to the period of time by which we are saying that the licence is valid. As has been discussed earlier, there are circumstances that may bring an individual's licence into...w

Public Safety committee  I don't know....

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry. I don't have exact numbers in front of me. I know that the elements of Bill C-71 that were being proposed were subject to an implementation plan that would put appropriate human and monetary resources in place. I believe the costing of that would be part of a future T

Public Safety committee  The requirement under the proposed legislation would be that the registrar of firearms, who currently manages that licence verification element for restricted and prohibited firearms, be responsible for the management of the information being collected.

Public Safety committee  The transfer number, as proposed under Bill C-71, would be kept in the Canadian firearms information system database, in a segregated database as part of CFIS.

Public Safety committee  Well, no, CFIS is an amalgam of databases and it contains licensing information. It contains registration information related to restricted and prohibited firearms. It's proposed that it contain a segregated database that would contain the data elements necessary for this particu

Public Safety committee  Well, if I said that, I meant to indicate that the firearms business does not need to positively verify that the licence is valid—

Public Safety committee  According to section 101, yes.

Public Safety committee  They don't.

Public Safety committee  In fact, by law they do not have to check the licence. They just have to be sufficiently convinced or certain that the individual is in possession of a licence. They do not, in fact, have to check the licence.