Public Safety committee  As I understand it, what they are proposing is an expert committee to go through and follow up to decide which classification all these new firearms that are coming in are going to go into. Instead of having a hodgepodge of rules across the land and CFOs deciding what the classif

Public Safety committee  That is true. The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation was instrumental in bringing firearms safety courses to the province, probably some 40 or 50 years ago. As a direct result, incidents involving accidents around firearms use went almost to nil from what they used to be. It is thr

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  No, your firearm has to be transported locked twice. If you were going to the range with your car, you would have to have it in a locked case, probably with a trigger lock on it, and put it in the trunk of your car and lock it. You would also have to take the most direct route to

Public Safety committee  First of all, everybody needs to understand that in order to buy a restricted firearm, in this case a handgun, you have to have a reason to own it. You have two choices under the act. One, you can be a collector. You deem yourself a collector, and you are subject to home inspecti

Public Safety committee  I think Mr. Rodgers did a very good job of covering most of it. I'll only add a couple of things. We also have two courses here, one for hunting, and the Canadian firearms course, of course, is the same across Canada. Our hunter course, I think Tony led to that, but there's a re

Public Safety committee  Yes, I've taken the course a couple of times because I've taken my kids to it.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman, honourable committee members, and fellow witnesses, it's an honour to speak to you today. I'm a former RCMP officer as well as a past provincial president of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, one of the largest wildlife organizations of its kind in

Public Safety committee  The reason I'm telling you this is that farmers right now in my home province are being charged with criminal offences because their licences have expired.

Public Safety committee  That's wrong.

Public Safety committee  No, if they're mentally unstable they shouldn't have gotten it in the first place. They shouldn't have that licence.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  No, that's not what I said. I said that it should be made for a lifetime, unless you do a criminal act, and then it should be revoked.

Public Safety committee  I see people as law-abiding people and this act made criminals out of all of us. It uses the Criminal Code to punish legal, law-abiding firearms owners. The steps I see are that we need to get this legislation taken out of the criminal act, quit punishing the legal people, and

Public Safety committee  I don't think we want to run a risk of victimizing any of us. We're all criminals, because the mere possession of a firearm makes you a criminal, so that's what I'd say about that. We support gun control; we just support gun control that is effective and focuses on the real pro