Public Safety committee  It will be prescribed by regulation.

Public Safety committee  At this point, I don't know.

Public Safety committee  The loop isn't closed if the transaction is actually done. It simply provides the vendor with a period of time in which they will be assured that the purchaser's licence is valid. On how that's done, perhaps my colleagues can say what they're thinking.

Public Safety committee  I would say not yet. In the normal course of implementation, the government, after royal assent, begins to plan for the coming into force of the various provisions. Of course, we don't know in what final form the bill will be, so until the bill has actually been adopted by Parlia

Public Safety committee  I couldn't speak to that, I'm afraid, sir. Sorry.

Public Safety committee  Not me, no. Sorry.

Public Safety committee  The notion of the validity period is intended to prevent a situation where a reference number is issued concerning the licence of a purchaser where the purchaser, for whatever reason, no longer retains that licence eligibility, for example, if a person has had their licence resci

Public Safety committee  I would think so.

Public Safety committee  I don't know the answer to that question.

Public Safety committee  Yes, but the reference number is the means by which the transferor has proof of having verified that the licence was valid.

Public Safety committee  Voluntarily, yes.

Public Safety committee  Except that the transferor does not have the benefit of receiving a number that confirms that they have done their due diligence and complied with the intention of the law.

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  Not at all. Bill C-71 is proposing that there be a means of obliging vendors to verify that a purchaser has a valid licence. In turn, that vendor or seller, the transferor in the terms of the legislation, then has a reference number that proves they did their due diligence as r

Public Safety committee  That is not to suggest that transfers that are occurring now under the law as it currently stands are in any way illegal or deficient. It's that Bill C-71 proposes a change to the current process.