Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, from December 2019 to January 26, 2021, with regard to (a), PBC received 37 applications for expungement. With regard to (b), 10) applications were accepted as eligible, and expungement was ordered for nine of them, 90%. The remaining application was refused because

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to ensuring that our border remains open to legitimate trade and travel while closed to those who seek to traffic or smuggle weapons or drugs. Following significant cuts by the previous Conservative government to our security agencies, in

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth. We are in no way targeting legitimate, law-abiding firearms owners, such as hunters and farmers. That is neither our intention nor the effect of the bill we introduced. We know the Conservatives want to weaken gun control in

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, the list of terrorist entities is an important tool in preventing crime in Canada and granting authority to our intelligence agencies. We rely on the expertise of those agencies to ensure that any new organizations are added to the list, and I can assure members t

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness  Mr. Speaker, today, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the 2020 annual report on the RCMP's use of the law enforcement justification provisions. This report addresses the RCMP's use of specific provisions of the law enforcement justification regime, as set o

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, I want to reassure all hunters, farmers and sport shooters they are not being targeted in any way and that we have the greatest respect for them. Our bill actually targets criminals who are smuggling and trafficking firearms. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, Bill C-21 is an important step towards better gun control in our municipalities and elsewhere. It fulfills a commitment we made during the last election campaign to give municipalities more power so they could, for example, ban the storage of handguns within their

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Brome—Missisquoi for her question. I know that this issue is especially important to her. I think it is safe to say that no other government has done as much to improve gun control in Canada. For example, our Bill C-71 enabled bac

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, the Correctional Service of Canada is unable to provide a response to this question, as doing so would involve the extraction and analysis of a significant amount of information, which cannot be completed within the given time frame.

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a)(i), the Canadian firearms program stopped data entry of new applications for possession and acquisition licences into the Canadian firearms information system by the central processing site the week of March 16, 2020. Chief firearms officers contin

Reduction of Recidivism Framework Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to participate virtually in this debate on Bill C-228. This is an important bill. As my colleague from Hull—Aylmer already said, the government will support this bill and will recommend that it be referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I also rise on a point of order. I think it goes along the same lines of what we heard from the hon. opposition House leader. During question period, we heard members heckling online while other members were answering. I am thinking of the member for Medicine Hat—Car

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Mississauga—Erin Mills for her important question and her tireless work on behalf of the women's caucus for several years now. This Sunday, we will solemnly remember the tragedy that occurred at École Polytechnique in Montreal 31 years ago.

Status of the French Language in Montreal  Madam Chair, the sector was calling for new broadcasting legislation. I think our government will always be motivated to promote the most Canadian content and more French-language content.

Status of the French Language in Montreal  Madam Chair, I might surprise my colleague again, because I recently learned that I share ancestors with René Lévesque: Robert Lévesque, from Rivière-Ouelle, and Jeanne Chevalier. It goes back many generations, but there it is all the same. I am a Lightbound, I was born under th