Public Safety committee  This is with regard to the yellow flags. It's not labelled like that in the bill, but these are the yellow flag provisions, whereby, if there are, as my colleague, Madame Paquette, was mentioning, concerns with regard to any number of questions of eligibility of the individual, then somebody could flag to the CFO, use the yellow flag, and say, I don't really think this person should have a...and detail the reasons, so these steps are not necessarily taken frivolously.

Public Safety committee  In terms of the use of words in French, the way we formulate ideas in French versus in English is different. We use different words, sometimes multiple words, to say what one word in English will do. It's not unusual. You'll see that throughout the text. There are a different number of words that are used to convey the same idea.

Public Safety committee  There is a task that is included in the measure that talks about “has reasonable grounds to suspect”, and I believe the motion that is on the floor is to change that to “has reasonable grounds to believe”. It's not just an automatic call that would suspend the licence. It's that there is a call; there is information that's given, and the CFO has reasonable grounds to believe that the holder of a licence is no longer eligible.

Public Safety committee  No, that's right. Concerning immunity, I don't really want to speak to what might violate their code of ethics. I think that is under provincial jurisdiction. I am not in a position to answer that question.

Public Safety committee  I think I would use the ordinary dictionary sense of “any person”.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Clause 33 proposes a few changes. It proposes to replace the heading to add the words “and Suspension”, as well as require a CFO to refuse a licence to individuals who are not eligible. It allows the CFOs—the chief firearms officers—to refuse an authorization to carry or an authorization to transport for sufficient reason.

Public Safety committee  If we refer to section 2 of the Firearms Act, a chief firearms officer is defined, and the commissioner means the commissioner of firearms appointed under section 81.1. Currently the commissioner of firearms is the commissioner of the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  I will ask my colleagues at the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  For example, if Parliament changes classifications of firearms that are, for example, restricted and makes them prohibited—if there were a change to the Criminal Code in terms of how it defines prohibited firearms—then when that provision comes into effect, the classification changes and the certificate would automatically expire.

Public Safety committee  That depends on what was put in the change of that prohibition. For example, if Parliament or the regulation prohibited the firearm, it depends on whether an amnesty period is given. The firearm owner would then have to comply with whatever conditions had been made either by regulations or by Parliament in the act of Parliament.

Public Safety committee  Pardon me. Your question is that somebody.... I'm sorry. I missed the first part.

Public Safety committee  If the firearm was one that was already legally registered—if it was, for example, a restricted firearm—and the Parliament or a regulation under an act of Parliament changed the classification to prohibit it and they were.... I'm sorry. I don't understand.

Public Safety committee  This creates a new paragraph, 66(c), a third instance in which a registration certificate of a prohibited or restricted firearm becomes expired when the classification of a restricted or prohibited firearm changes as a result of, for example, an act of Parliament or a regulation that is made under such an act of Parliament.

Public Safety committee  I mean the registration certificate, yes.