Public Safety committee  I'll start and then maybe hand it off to my colleague. There are varying degrees of processes throughout the country. Some provinces actually receive these orders electronically and are able to process them very quickly. Others don't receive all of them at all. Some of them actu

Public Safety committee  Yes, and all provinces have different systems, so there is not a common system.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  I would assume the same, yes. They have a variety of tools at their disposal.

Public Safety committee  There is one chief firearms officer in a province, who is either federally or provincially designated, but there are firearms officers as part of that office.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The Firearms Act refers to a chief firearms officer or a firearms officer. There are activities that a chief firearms officer can designate down to their staff.

Public Safety committee  They would no longer need protection of life, so they would no longer meet that threshold.

Public Safety committee  There would be a full process. Do you want to explain?

Public Safety committee  Right now we have an administrative tool at our disposal. It's not a legal one, but we can put a licence under review currently to investigate an incident or a complaint. We used the timeline that generally we take for these types of reviews and applied it to this.

Public Safety committee  That's correct. Thirty days is reasonable.

Public Safety committee  I don't have any statistics on that. The 30-day period is reasonable, based on the processes we have to date.

Public Safety committee  Yes. That's okay. There are various forms of flags that come in. Someone could call. A business could call in this situation. It could be a flag from police. Maybe they got stopped. Maybe there was something in the description of that incident—the flag that they had multiple fir

Public Safety committee  I'm just using it as an example. There's not a maximum today. If I'm going into the business, and I've gone there, I don't know, every week for a month and I'm buying a couple of firearms each time, then that business may flag that. They may call the chief firearms officer and

Public Safety committee  There are many examples, but the one that comes to mind is if there's a suspicion of...I'm sorry...if something is flagged to the CFO because there might be straw purchasing involved, like multiple purchases of firearms. To allow the time necessary to do an investigation, this is