Public Safety committee  For the Department of Justice, yes, we normally go through our cabinet and parliamentary affairs unit, which is attached to our deputy minister's office, and our minister's office as well.

Public Safety committee  I can highlight the next two or three clauses adding “firearm part” to the peace bond. They are generally called peace bond provisions in the Criminal Code. They are preventative orders. In those orders, if issued by a judge, there can be conditions to abstain from various things.

Public Safety committee  Those are not my words, Mr. Paul-Hus.

Public Safety committee  I agree with everything.

Public Safety committee  It’s the same explanation I gave you ten minutes ago.

Public Safety committee  In the French and English versions, we simply added the words “firearm parts” in English, and “pièces d’arme à feu” in French. That’s the only change that was made.

Public Safety committee  The layout of the text in both languages may vary in the Criminal Code. There may be one paragraph in French and five or six in English. That’s how the drafters compose the text.

Public Safety committee  That’s right, the content is exactly the same, except that the words “firearms parts” were added in English, and the words “pièces d’armes à feu” were added in French. That’s the only change.

Public Safety committee  As I explained in a previous motion, this is amending an existing provision. The English and French drafting is sometimes different, depending on what is included in the provisions. Proposed subsection 491(1) is a full paragraph in the French version, but in the English it is broken down by paragraph.

Public Safety committee  I agree that this is very important. The French version is now the same as the one used in the Criminal Code. We just added the phrase “pièces d’arme à feu.”

Public Safety committee  I'll start, and my colleague might weigh in. Clause 13 adds two serious firearms offences, section 92 and section 95, to section 183 of the Criminal Code, which underlies the basis for which a wiretap can be sought for those offences. That's what this does. The motion would add the computer data offences to section 183 as well, so a wiretap could be sought for serious offences that are sometimes linked with organized crime.

Public Safety committee  Right. You added on the mental element at the end. Yes, they have to have a mental element for the purpose of trafficking. If the person has this data and it is for the purpose of illegal manufacturing, then the person would be captured under that for the first offence. The second offence is the distribution offence, and the person would have to know that the data is going to be used to manufacture an illegal firearm.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's correct. They are new offences, computer data offences. There are two: Proposed subsection 102.1(1) is for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and proposed subsection 102.1(2) is for distribution—knowing that those are going to be used in illegal manufacturing.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  The language around crossbows is a leftover from an old Criminal Code provision that was repealed, I believe, through the Statutes Repeal Act. It had a specific offence for crossbows as a result of an event that occurred about 15 or 20 years ago, when someone used a crossbow to....