Public Safety committee  In a few of my academic papers I have tried to assess that. That is a very difficult question to answer. Import and export records suggest there are somewhere between 20 million and 30 million firearms in Canada. If we've registered seven million, that leaves quite a few unregist

Public Safety committee  Yes, I have. When I first began researching--

Public Safety committee  --I got $400.

Public Safety committee  I have contributed to the Conservative Party, the Reform Party, the NDP, and the Liberals.

Public Safety committee  I'm glad that people quote me, but I can't say I'm an official specialist or an official adviser. You'd have to ask the Conservative Party or the government themselves. If they've hired me, I've received no cheque and received no title, so I think the answer is no.

Public Safety committee  Several years after coming to Canada, I started researching the sociology of gun owners as part of my academic program. Before I started this research, I was as naive about guns as any professor. I knew nothing about guns. After I finished the research and I discovered that the m

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to address the committee. I'm a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University. I am here as an individual criminologist to present facts, not myths; facts, not emotion. In this presentation I will briefly show how claims made by the

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this final opportunity. I would like to reiterate that because the American violent crime and homicide rates have fallen so drastically, we must imagine that they are doing something right. The research that I have shown demonstrates that there is so

Justice committee  I have the preliminary numbers, and they don't vary very far from 2004 either way.

Justice committee  I don't have them under my hat. I have seen them. As I remember, homicide is up in both countries--but again, very slightly.

Justice committee  Is the question, do I have figures on crimes other than violent crimes?

Justice committee  No, sir. I am looking at overall general effectiveness of a criminal spending time in jail. That was the intent of my presentation.

Justice committee  Those are the apparent numbers. You're quite correct--although I would point out that in order to be as clear and straightforward as possible, I have used the statistics available on the American FBI site as well as Stats Canada. So these are the official statistics. Unfortunate

Justice committee  My intent in both graphs is to focus the viewer's attention on the trends. Rather than heavily manipulate the data, which I did not think the committee wanted me to, I gave you the actual from-the-statistical-sources data so that it would be as untrammelled as possible. If you lo

Justice committee  That's quite correct.