Public Safety committee  It is my very strongly held belief that it is a great fiction that any police officer has been or could be suppressed from expressing their opinion. I think it's certainly beyond belief that the police unions would be complicit in such things. It's nonsense, if I may say. In speaking to police leaders across the country, I've also spoken to every provincial police chiefs association.

Public Safety committee  The registration of the weapons has value to policing. It has value to my investigators. Having information that someone is licensed to own a firearm is useful information. We support the licensing regime in this country. But it's also of extremely important value to know how many guns a person possesses.

Public Safety committee  Registering a firearm, particularly if it's done at point of sale, is in fact far easier than registering a motor vehicle. I've seen it done. I've seen people who are pretty good at it and they've registered in as short a period of time as 37 seconds. It normally takes a few minutes online.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is William Blair, and I'm the chief of the Toronto Police Service. Like my fellow chiefs across Canada, I have served for decades in front-line policing. I've been a member of the Toronto Police Service since November 1, 1976, and over the past 33 years I have served in nearly every policing function.