Public Safety committee  I can point you back, sir, to the comments of the minister when he was here, which were that the current process does not require the verification of a licence. It is voluntary to do so. He has proposed that it is in the interest of public safety that anyone selling a firearm ver

Public Safety committee  There is no disagreement there. The reference, though, sir, is that the reference number—

Public Safety committee  The answer is no, because lending between two authorized owners, two licensed owners, is not a transfer as defined here.

Public Safety committee  Actually, I'm very pleased to have the question, because it gives us a chance to correct what has unfortunately emerged as a misperception about how clause 5 is drafted. Clause 5 as drafted does in fact provide for the transfer of more than one firearm. The notion that has emerg

Public Safety committee  I believe it goes to the Interpretation Act, in fact, but my colleague can explain.

Public Safety committee  When he was before you he talked about the intent as being preserving, for firearms owners, the automatic ATT for the vast majority of reasons for which they would transport their firearms: to bring them home, and bring them to and from the range, for those that are authorized to

Public Safety committee  Could we have just a moment, Mr. Chair? Thank you.

Public Safety committee  I think in response to the question, sir, we will just observe that it is possible that someone can contact the Canadian firearms program from the range and request that an ATT be issued to them to transport the firearm to the gunsmith. As we indicated previously, the Canadian fi

Public Safety committee  The rationale is akin to what we call “the pins on the map” analogy, that the more places and the more broadly distributed those places are that one can have an authorization to transport a restricted firearm and the greater the geographic area in which one can be transporting th

Public Safety committee  I think because in this case they are the only ones that were deemed to be something other than their classification, using the deemed provisions in 2015. If Bill C-71 repeals the deeming provision, these are the only families of firearms that are affected. If you look in sectio

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  These firearms would revert to the classification that is defined for them in the Criminal Code on the basis of their physical attributes, rather than on a deemed classification that has been put in place by the Governor in Council.

Public Safety committee  No, they will revert to the classification that's defined for them by the Criminal Code in relation to their physical attributes. As the minister has pointed out, it remains within the domain of Parliament to define what those classifications are.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I think what's being provided for in the statute is the grandfathering status of those firearms. The statute also then provides that the deeming provision under which they were deemed to have been something other than what the Criminal Code would have provided for is b

Public Safety committee  The change, if I may, is that the Governor in Council would no longer have the ability to downgrade the classification of a firearm. That's the change being made in Bill C-71.