Public Safety committee  I don't, but members of my family do, and I've lived with guns in my home for a number of years.

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to the committee on behalf of the Coalition for Gun Control, which is an alliance of approximately 300 organizations from across the country that have been working on this issue now for about 25 years. I apologize, as a pr

Public Safety committee  Well, I'm not a lawyer, but what I've looked at in terms of the 1977 legislation, the 1995 legislation, and this legislation is that in 1977 there was an explicit requirement. It was done away with in the Firearms Act, because the registration process obviated the need to maintai

Public Safety committee  I apologize. My French is not great and the translation is not working well, but I understood that you want me to comment on some of the provisions in the law that--

Public Safety committee  Verify on a transfer...?

Public Safety committee  It's the verification on transfer. Under the old firearms acquisition certificate program that was introduced in 1977 and strengthened under the Conservative government in 1991, people had to present their firearms acquisition certificate--theoretically--when they purchased firea

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much. I'll try to be brief because I want to save some time for my colleague, Dr. Barbara Kane, to speak. The Coalition for Gun Control is a non-profit organization. It was founded more than 20 years ago. Its position on firearms regulation has been supported by mor

Public Safety committee  The Auditor General looked at how the billion dollars was spent over 10 years. That information is broken down and shows that more than two-thirds of the money that was spent went to licensing gun owners. The $4.1 million, as far as I'm aware, is a figure that was given by the RC

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I relied on the RCMP. We have two pieces of testimony--

Public Safety committee  --from the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. It was from the Quebec government via the National Crime Prevention Council. It was a competitive bid, and the program was very specifically focused on implementation of the law--nothing to do with advocacy, which I think you implied in your question.

Public Safety committee  Yes. And I've donated to the NDP Party--

Public Safety committee  --and I've donated to the Bloc Québécois Party.