Public Safety committee  For one thing, voters have recourse when it comes to cabinet. Voters have no recourse when it comes to the RCMP, and so you have decisions being made that instantly transform an individual from law-abiding to non-law-abiding, with no recourse. Let's look at how that's going to

Public Safety committee  If they choose to use that provision. That's still within their discretion to actually use the grandfathering provision, and that would only be for that small subset of people who at that moment possess them. The current grandfathering provision that's being put into this legisl

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  Certainly. I think we have to remember that very few people have any expertise in this area because it doesn't actually exist. Many of these decisions are in fact arbitrary. In order to define something as a variant of something else, it's oftentimes quite arbitrary, and so whe

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon. Bill C-71 effectively removes parliamentary oversight over firearms classification decisions that can now be unilaterally made by the RCMP. This is both bad criminal law policy and bad precedent. First, it is particularly troubling in light of the RCMP's history