Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Some of it is in my brief. Some of it pertains to who your PAL references can be. I don't think they should be immediate family members or close friends. Passport requirements are stricter, but you can't shoot somebody with a passport. I've mentioned the stage A failure override

Public Safety committee  Sure. I like to think that we're joined at the hip.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  A renewal.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Continue your sentence, because I want to know what you're referencing when you reference the firearms officer there.

Public Safety committee  Yes, definitely.

Public Safety committee  I vehemently disagree with the delegated authority of chief firearms officers to override those stage A failures for somebody with this sort of background. However, as I said before, that's not the only difficulty we have in the licensing system right now, which is the Canadian

Public Safety committee  I would need to think more about that question, but I can say this in response. I often hear about the rights of hunters and ranchers in rural areas to defend their property and so on and so forth. In fact, when the long gun registry was rescinded, a submission to the committee a

Public Safety committee  I should clarify, as I just said, that because of the privacy law in Ontario I wasn't able to find out exactly who his references were on the PAL application, but the application as it currently stands is not very stringent. Apart from excluding conjugal partners, anybody can be

Public Safety committee  What I'm not clear about in that case was whether all that was done.... I know that because he was extensively interviewed, he would have encountered what is known as a stage A failure or a red flag in the system. That's what precipitated the interview. However, what I can't dete