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Public Safety committee Yes, that's all this clause achieves. The amendments are related to other sections in the Criminal Code. The “firearm part” being added is in different sections of the code, but this clause just adds the bank and the mint to the “public officers” provision of the code and allows for a prescription power.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee It's to provide them an exemption so they can protect their assets and can have possession of and carry prohibited—
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee That's correct—a side arm, or a prohibited or restricted firearm. Because they're not governed by the Firearms Act, they don't need a licence or a registration certificate for those firearms. That allows them to carry and use those in the protection of their assets.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee That's correct. It's for the security only.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee I could. I just worry about giving information related to the bank and the mint in testimony, so I would say—
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee Yes. It's a C8, I believe—a carbine. They use those in the protection of their assets. It's a carbine. Previously, I believe...military C8.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee That's right.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee That's correct.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee They are carrying them now. They are covered under the current amnesty order under one of the paragraphs that allow them to continue to use them to protect assets. They have been continually able to use them under the amnesty order now to help protect assets.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee Yes, I believe so.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee Clause 12 will add persons employed by the Bank of Canada or the Royal Canadian Mint responsible for the security of its facilities to the “public officers” provisions in the Criminal Code. It will allow them to be exempt from the requirements of the Firearms Act and the related offences, as with other federal bodies in the Criminal Code underneath the federal umbrella.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee That's a good question. I'm not sure about provincial employees and if they have peace officer status, but this is for public officers. These are exemptions for federal entities in the scope of their employment or duties. It's for federal employees. The sections that are in the code right now, 117.07 to 117.08, are for visiting forces, Department of National Defence officials, police officers, academies, etc., who are able to be exempted from the Firearms Act regime, the licensing requirements and the Criminal Code offences that attach if they....
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee We can get that for you.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek
Public Safety committee “[W]here the justice is satisfied” is in the law now. I think the English version on the left side of the page, “if the justice”, is an updated drafting convention. Currently, we have “where the justice”. I think “if the justice” is the current drafting language. I think we'd need to replace proposed paragraph 117.05(4)(b) in the French.
May 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Phaedra Glushek