Public Safety committee  They could through the Criminal Code regulations. So the Governor in Council could no longer downgrade the classification of a firearm. The power to downgrade was exercised twice in 2015 in relation to these firearms. The government is seeking, through Bill C-71, to give up or re

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, I don't follow.

Public Safety committee  It is a fairly common practice, particularly in relation to the Firearms Act. The firearms grandfathering provisions are all related to a point in time that the person possessed that firearm. It also occurs in other types of legislation, most notably in tax legislation. The elig

Public Safety committee  I think I'll read it out, in the interests of ensuring the French reflects as closely as possible the intent of the English. It would be for (d), “il lui est ou lui a été interdit”. On the third line of (d), as well, instead of “d'avoir des contacts” , it would read “de commu

Public Safety committee  It's to align the English and the French in the case of (d). In the case of (f), it's to align the French with the consistency of the French vocabulary used elsewhere in that part, sir.

Public Safety committee  They would still be lawful. The status of the firearm does not change on June 30. June 30 is simply the date by which, in future, once the bill has passed both houses of Parliament and been brought into force, an owner would have had to be in possession of one in order to be gran

Public Safety committee  It provides certainty for people to make their decisions about whether they wish to get into or out of that class of firearm by a given date.

Public Safety committee  We defer to you on whether it's desirable or not, but the effect—

Public Safety committee  —would be that it would allow for an increasingly larger class of owners for an undefined period, who could potentially then be grandfathered as owners.

Public Safety committee  People may now be making decisions about getting into or indeed getting out of that type of ownership of that type of firearm in the knowledge that, on June 30, they will have to be an owner if they wish to become a grandfathered owner.

Public Safety committee  The intent is to ensure that current owners—current roughly at the time the bill was introduced—can be eligible for grandfathering, irrespective of when the bill comes into force.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  No matter what day it is that the bill becomes law, that was not intended as the effective date to be an eligible owner for grandfathering. What the date of June 30, 2018 does is establish the point in time at which an owner will be asked to establish, as a matter of fact, that t

Public Safety committee  The date remains the same. I suggested that there's no need to update the date, in the sense that the date is roughly three months from the time of introduction of the bill. That period was intended to provide people in the marketplace—owners, buyers, sellers, importers, wholesal

Public Safety committee  If it operated in that function, it would create another new eligible owner for grandfathering down through the generations.