Environment committee  Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mark Ryckman. I'm the manager of policy with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. The OFAH is the largest non-profit conservation-based fish and wildlife organization in Ontario. We have 100,000 members, supporters and subscribers

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. It's been mentioned a couple of times already, in that not only was there some disinformation but there was some misinformation. There was simply a lack of clarity, and the responsibility for that lies mostly on the government for the way it was introduced. You'

Public Safety committee  That's a great question. Without going into a huge summary of our submission, there were some concerns about Bill C-21—for instance, impacts on people having their firearms taken away through the red and yellow flag laws without a proper hearing or without notice. It was not nec

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry. Just to be clear, I was going back a little bit in time to say that this survey was conducted in response to the May 2020 order in council, which banned a bunch of firearms. If we were to conduct a similar survey today or, let's say, a month after those amendments wo

Public Safety committee  That's a great question. I don't have those details off the top of my head. I do have a copy of the report. It's fairly extensive. I could provide it to the clerk if there's interest in me doing so. Again, I would just add the caveat that it was in response to the May 2020 OI

Public Safety committee  Thanks for the question. I'll admit that I am not an expert on gun violence. I will say that I think you'd be hard pressed to find any Canadians who don't think the government can do more to reduce gun violence, even though we are not America by any stretch of the imagination, d

Public Safety committee  I would argue that most people are talking about military firearms more than anything. There is so much overlap, and not just in calibre, as you mentioned, between true military firearms and the civilian versions that evolve from some of those military firearms.

Public Safety committee  Unfortunately, the variation, even within Ontario and within the Ontario deer hunting population.... There is significant variation in preference for the calibre and type of firearm, and so on and so forth. I don't think I can speak accurately about the variation across Canada, b

Public Safety committee  It's very common, yes.

Public Safety committee  It's quite possible, yes.

Public Safety committee  I would like to answer. It probably won't be quick, though.

Public Safety committee  Sure. You're absolutely right, in that ultimately we need to be helping the people who need help. We need to take guns away—whatever guns they are—from people who shouldn't have them, plain and simple. We need to ensure that our enforcement bodies have the funding, the trainin

Public Safety committee  Unfortunately, I can't speak intelligently on behalf of the gun manufacturers, although I will say that, generally speaking, any business responds to the market. Generally speaking, the concern that we have with the evergreen definition in general.... Our position is that any at

Public Safety committee  Certainly, currently yes. That would be the case.