Public Safety committee  I'll be speaking on behalf of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation. Mr. Chairman, honourable committee members, and fellow witnesses, it is an honour and a privilege to speak to you today. Our time is valuable, so let me get to the point: the thousands of people I represent sup

Public Safety committee  I have my two daughters, as I pointed out in my presentation, but yes, we have more women entering the field all the time now, and in some cases they're better hunters than the men.

Public Safety committee  Oh yes.

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

Public Safety committee  That's definitely part of it, all right, but the data is the registry--

Public Safety committee  --so if you're destroying the registry, you have to destroy the data or you haven't destroyed the registry. Do I think they would resurrect it? You're darn right they will.

Public Safety committee  Exactly: the data is the registry, and the registry is the data.

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