Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. I'm just having a momentary memory block.

Foreign Affairs committee  No problem.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have not met with ministerial staff on this issue. The minister we met with before was Minister Bernier, for a very brief time. We have not had meetings with ministerial staff since then. I think you have to remember that many Canadians are very worried about this because of

Foreign Affairs committee  I am not part of the delegation.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, I'm not.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning to all the members of the committee. I beg your indulgence if I may because I think my presentation is about 30 seconds too long, but I'm dealing with the technical aspects of the bill and there are a lot of technicalities I'd like to cove

Public Safety committee  Yes, Mr. Leef, I've seen the advertisements and they are incorrect. There are no changes to the purposes for which a firearm can be transferred. There are no changes at all. Right now my authorization to transport, my paper one issued by the Province of Ontario, is for three ye

Public Safety committee  I certainly hope that isn't the case. That's how we got into this mess in the first place. My understanding is that the minister is going to seek advice from people who actually have the technical expertise. There are those people in Canada. Many of them work for companies that

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I've filled some out a number of times.

Public Safety committee  Probably a half dozen now this year.

Public Safety committee  There are multiple purposes. When a restricted or prohibited firearm is purchased or transferred in any way, there's a bunch of paperwork that has to be filled out with that. Then it goes through a number of government departments and then you have to get an authorization to tran

Public Safety committee  On the authorization specifically, no. Once you have it, you can bring the firearm back. Then there are other authorizations that have to be filled out by your gun club. Because of this, virtually every firearms club in the country has a club secretary who does nothing all year l

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  First of all, under the act, the police are not empowered to ask for your authorization to transport. In fact, they don't even know you have it. In fact, they don't even have the power to ask you if you have firearms in the vehicle. This question you're dealing with is very muc