Public Safety committee  We contracted them not to lobby on our behalf, but to engage in government liaison. We've dealt with them, and because of their relationship with your government, they declined to be involved in any aspect of the CACP's advocacy--

Public Safety committee  Very well, sir.

Public Safety committee  Well, in fact, we are informing them. Their police associations are informing them. Their police chiefs are informing them. We believe that police officers need to know about what value this registry brings to them. We have found where there is training—let me give you an exampl

Public Safety committee  No, sir, absolutely not.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Because, sir, as I explained on the TV show, and as you have quoted me rather accurately, we do believe very strongly in advocating for public safety. We believe that a well-informed public, well-informed front-line police officers, and well-informed members of Parliament will be

Public Safety committee  That's an excellent question. Thank you for asking it. What we have found in every jurisdiction where we've gone in and explained to police officers what information is available in the registry, how they might access it and how they might use it to do their jobs, is that the u

Public Safety committee  Yes. I've accompanied him on a number of occasions where we've met with chiefs' associations across the country—a couple of them—where Marty has made a presentation on the work the Firearms Centre does, has shared the data that is now available to police chiefs across this countr

Public Safety committee  I think once we provide them with that information, they will be able to give—

Public Safety committee  No, I haven't, but I—

Public Safety committee  I won't speak for Mr. Momy, but a police officer will use that information to inform themselves about the situation they're entering into. Is it absolutely the last word on the subject? Is there no other circumstance where they should consider other alternatives? Of course there

Public Safety committee  My police services use the registry for sworn statements, to put affidavits before the courts and to obtain search warrants, on a daily basis. Police officers right across this country use the information from the registry and from the Canada Firearms Centre for judicial processe

Public Safety committee  I've had the privilege of seeing it. There are actually two documents. One is an internal audit and one is an internal evaluation on the firearms program. As I understand it, both of the documents are quite supportive of the efficiency and the value of the firearms program, but

Public Safety committee  It is a national organization. It represents municipal, provincial, and national police services, the RCMP, coast to coast.

Public Safety committee  It is my very strongly held belief that it is a great fiction that any police officer has been or could be suppressed from expressing their opinion. I think it's certainly beyond belief that the police unions would be complicit in such things. It's nonsense, if I may say. In spe