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Public Safety committee Thank you. I appreciate being here. It's pretty cool to be a Canadian and to be part of how democracy functions. I think that's a pretty wonderful opportunity in my life, so thanks for letting me be here today. I want to talk a little bit about the situation that I and my fellow
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee I always struggle a bit with the way we say that all the police are supporting it. I sent an email to my colleagues in the province and got some quiet emails back from some RCMP leaders who wouldn't want their comments about their concerns with the registry repeated, so people in
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee You won't fix it for $4.1 million. Yes, I'm in favour of Canadians trying to fix it before we scrap it, but it's going to cost more than that.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee It's one of those figures people can pull out of the air, and I suppose nobody can ever criticize, but when I ask my own experts how many unregistered long guns there are today across Canada, they say it's--very conservatively--a million long guns. That's what they believe curren
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee That's today. It's now. They continue to not be registered.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee No, because as I said in my comments, this is similar to estimating how many grow ops you have in your community. You really are only guessing, and I'm not trying to say that my statement about a million is anything more than an estimate.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee I would say it's a figure drawn from a person who has a tremendous amount of understanding about guns in Canada, and it's as good a guess as anybody else's.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee I'm asking my own experts, not that professor. Thank you.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee I actually did go to law school, but that was 30 years ago, so you're asking a lot of me. In the province, for example--I know that you know this--obviously we run registration systems for cars and drivers' licences. It's not a criminal system. The federal government can run reg
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee That's correct.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee It's to bring them into the fold, absolutely; its intent is very good.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee That's correct.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee Yes, it is handguns and assault rifles that would be illegal in Canada.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich
Public Safety committee Forgive me. I think it's simply a semi-automatic rifle that was legally registered and held by the gentleman who did the Dawson shooting.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Chief Bob Rich