Public Safety committee  Quite frankly, in the first nations community, we want the government to address the social issues, the social root causes of the problem. So it is important to ensure the health and safety of those individuals. With the help of the physicians here today, I think we can impleme

Public Safety committee  Exactly. There are major challenges in that area.

Public Safety committee  The challenge is really in terms of access to information. The information compiled by the Canadian firearms program is used to check whether a firearm is bought legally by an individual who is legally authorized to do so. Can that information be shared with the RCMP or other p

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, the registry gave instant access to the list of all firearms in Canada at the time, but before it existed, every vendor had to keep records, and we had to locate the firearm's owner, starting with the manufacturer and then moving on to the vendor. Green books are pret

Public Safety committee  There's no doubt that, since the firearm registry was abolished, we have been unaware of the firearms that are sold. So our investigations are currently much more difficult.

Public Safety committee  We have to go back to centralize all the transactions of firearms. We have to keep track of used firearms sold legally by legitimate owners to someone authorized to purchase them. How will we be able to track those transactions? We would need a regulatory requirement for all tha

Public Safety committee  You are talking about green books, unless I am mistaken.

Public Safety committee  In the context of monitoring firearm sales, those books helped ensure the ability to find the buyer of a firearm and check whether that firearm was sold to someone who was legally entitled to own it. As my colleague was saying, that was the starting point of any investigation whe

Public Safety committee  It's a very specific one there. To consider that crime a gun crime, I would doubt it, but—

Public Safety committee  No, it doesn't.

Public Safety committee  Quebec has the same practice under Anastasia's law. If a health professional has reasons to believe that an individual with a firearm is a threat to themselves or to the health and safety of those around them, they must report that risk to the police.

Public Safety committee  Of course, we support any initiative to ensure the safety of Canadians. Right now, when we are told about individuals with risk behaviour online or on social media, we take action to find out whether they have firearms. We support an initiative whereby health professionals would

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, distinguished members of the committee, once again, I would like to thank you for having the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police present to you today during your study on Bill C-71. My name is Mario Harel, and I am appearing before you as President of the CACP. A

Justice committee  No, what we're saying is pretty simple. If you consume marijuana, you don't drive.

Justice committee  We're looking at each other, but.... I'm sorry, but I don't have any constructive comments to make on that.