Public Safety committee  We had legislation that was introduced by Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1977, and I've included it because I undertook an archeological exercise. That legislation said, “Every person who carries on a business that includes the manufacturing, buying or selling at wholesale or retail

Public Safety committee  It's Freedom from Fear. You know, the Declaration of Human Rights talks about freedom from fear. It does not talk about the right to bear arms. Our Supreme Court has said repeatedly that there is no right to bear arms. The U.S. rhetoric, which has framed a lot of this debate i

Public Safety committee  The AR-15 was prohibited in the United States under the U.S. assault weapons ban. The only reason it didn't make it to the prohibited list was that there was advocacy by the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, which wanted to be able to use it for target shooting. I did a repo

Public Safety committee  The intention with the classification of firearms and restrictive and prohibited weapons was very clear. It said that the orders in council could be used to prohibit weapons not reasonably used for hunting. I remember a member of Parliament saying that they needed a large-capacit

Public Safety committee  As I said at the outset, when I talk about gun violence, I use the World Health Organization's definition of gun violence, so that doesn't restrict it to urban gang violence. It includes domestic violence. It includes suicide. It includes political violence. I think if you recog

Public Safety committee  I am not an expert in domestic violence, and I know you have had requests from a number of front-line shelters to appear before the committee, and they could answer this better. Obviously, when women feel threatened in the environment, they are not likely to report. Often there a

Public Safety committee  There are certainly people I have spoken to.... In fact, I believe a women from Mr. Holland's riding whose daughter was shot and killed said specifically that this provision would have made a difference. I should have said this at the outset. The Supreme Court has said repeated

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much. My name's Wendy Cukier and I'm the President of the Coalition for Gun Control. I appreciate your giving me the time to appear before you today. I have provided a brief in both French and English. Rather than walking through the entire document, I'd just like to

Public Safety committee  I apologize because I don't have what you're referring to in front of me. The intent is simply to say that mandatory prohibitions are not a panacea and will not solve the problem. Our focus is on screening and prevention. Unfortunately, we have too many cases where.... In fact,

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much. It comes back to what I said previously about the way that this is framed, and indeed the question that was posed. Do you own a firearm, and can you tell us about the training process and screening process? The assumption that gun ownership confers expertise in

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. We've seen this with amnesty after amnesty after amnesty. There has not been an effort to reach out, to educate people about why having a licence is important, why they must renew. That's another thing that this RCMP report suggests, you need resources to ensure com

Public Safety committee  There already is prohibition for people convicted of a range of offences where there is considered to be a risk to public safety, so it was not clear to us how this was different from what already exists in the law. We know, based on recent Supreme Court decisions, that mandatory

Public Safety committee  In our reading of the authorizations to transport, they go from saying that they will allow a prohibited or restricted firearm to be moved between two or more specified places for any good reason to saying that the specified places must include all shooting clubs and shooting ran

Public Safety committee  If we look at the regulation of potentially dangerous substances or objects, normally there is a reliance on expert opinion. The classification of prohibited weapons, and indeed, restricted weapons, is certainly the subject of much debate. Different countries have different appro

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much for the question. I think it's fairly simple. The existing authorizations to transport regulations and the power in the legislation are aimed at restricting where restricted weapons can be possessed, and these regulations have been in place now for over 50 years