Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I really feel nervous about answering that because a lot of statements were made, and I'm not sure what the clear question is. If you're talking about 1995 data, or if you're talking about the issue of weapons that have not been re-registered or renewed because of the

Public Accounts committee  I think you're quite correct. There are positive results from the training program. Right now, the intention is that anyone who's looking to acquire a licence would have to go through the training program. It's not necessarily directed at people who have no intention of acquiring

Public Accounts committee  Without a doubt. Awareness and education are beneficial, and knowledge gives people the power to conduct themselves in a safe manner. Whether or not it's practical with such a large undertaking...it would be nice if we could do that, but there again, we are trying to be efficient

Public Accounts committee  Sorry, I don't have any history on that. We got involved in this in May. We were using CFIS I at the time, and the staff we had could maintain CFIS I. There are negotiations around what's going to happen with CFIS II.

Public Accounts committee  It's not my place to comment on where the government wants to go. My place is to do as I'm told when they decide where they want to go, and that I will do. As far as the information in the system goes, the amnesty is there, but the old information is still there as well. The dat

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we've got to think about capacity. What we would like to do is build in the facility for automatic checking. We're going to be looking at that in the future, so that it will become a seamless operation. Again, we have to deal with the issues and take care of them first. Let'

Public Accounts committee  Right.

Public Accounts committee  I don't understand.

Public Accounts committee  We're linking systems together so that one query would check in a number of places.

Public Accounts committee  Right.

Public Accounts committee  I really can't respond to that. I don't know why it's not in there. It should be.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  If you talk to the police chiefs, I don't think they would agree with that, because on a domestic, as an example, if the--