Public Safety committee  That program has been around a long time. It's called the wilderness carry permit.

Public Safety committee  No, that's a new one to me.

Public Safety committee  I have not seen that in this bill. I'm sorry. I'll go back and redouble my efforts to scan through the bill, but I haven't seen that.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it needs a lot more clarity, because a championship shooter is like an NHL hockey player. They don't just fall off the tree. They require decades of training to get to where they have to be. It takes hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition to be able to get that good.

Public Safety committee  Yes. We don't have any problem with that, except that if you look at the reality, you see that they're never imposed

Public Safety committee  No, we have no problem with that, but we've been living with red flag laws for 25 years now. This is not new. This is an enhancement of existing laws. For 25 years now, if someone were to make a complaint that they were being threatened with a firearm, the police would have the a

Public Safety committee  It's very small. It's very much an elitist type of sport. However, there are other sports shot with handguns. There are a number of them. Examples are IPSC, IDPA, CLAS-H and cowboy action shooting. All these things involve the use of handguns. This bill makes no reference to al

Public Safety committee  I think there have been a lot of great efforts made on this already that get more money into the hands of the CBSA, but of course every time somebody does something preventive, the crooks think up a new way to beat it, so you have to stay in front of them all the time, and there

Public Safety committee  There are a number of ways to fix it. The system we proposed before is one of the ways to do it, but the biggest problem, as we see it, is that there are not enough jail spaces. What happens is that unless somebody has committed a murder, they slap him or her with a firearms proh

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Motz. I think the first thing we have to do is start getting young people out of gangs. That's a huge thing right there. It needs to be done and it needs to have a concentrated effort. I'm not talking about putting in basketball courts; I'm talking about doing stu

Public Safety committee  Correct. Mr. Wilson's program absolutely knocks it out of the park. It's really good.

Public Safety committee  I think there are a number of factors in play. First of all is the media. Everything that most people learn about firearms comes from either a Hollywood movie or watching the CBC, and quite frankly neither one of them is very accurate. Firearms ownership in Canada is a huge step

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your time and attention.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Tony Bernardo. I'm the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. We are 62 years young and in our entire time have never had a single fatal accident on a shooting range, which is not bad. In ke