PREMIER’S OFFICE ORDERED TO SEND RECORDS ON HIGH RIVER FORCED ENTRIES
REQUEST FOR REVIEW: “The Office of the Premier/Alberta Executive Council is to send the records at issue on or before April 14, 2020 to my Calgary Office:”
Alberta Information Commissioner Letter to Premier and Dennis R. Young dated March 23, 2020 – Premier’s Office FOIP File: 2019-G-0062
JUNE 21, 2019 – LETTER TO PREMIER KENNEY ON HIGH RIVER FORCED ENTRIES
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy on High River Forced Entries in 2013 Flood – Letter by Dennis R. Young
VIDEO: JASON KENNEY ON HIGH RIVER FORCED ENTRIES, PROPERTY RIGHTS & GUNS
“Outrageous violation of property rights and personal privacy,” Jason Kenney, October 10, 2017
RCMP RELEASE 447 PAGES OF FIREARMS CLASSIFICATION RECORDS
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE RCMP FIREARMS CLASSIFICATION EXPERTS AND PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER VIC TOEWS – 2012-2013
RCMP Response to Access to Information Act File: A-2013-03715 dated February 19, 2020 – Posted by Dennis R. Young on March 29, 2020
REVEALED: Licensed gun owners are not a major source of crime guns in Toronto.
ANALYSIS OF TORONTO POLICE SERVICE ‘CRIME GUN’ STATISTICS FOR 2018
REVEALED: Licensed gun owners are not a major source of crime guns in Toronto.
Analysis by Dennis R. Young – March 24, 2020
NOTE: I want to thank Gary Mauser, Professor Emeritus for his review and suggestions. Any errors are mine.
TORONTO POLICE SERVICE RELEASE ‘CRIME GUN’ STATISTICS FOR 2018
TPS FOIP APS File: 19-2480, MA19-00655 – 7-Page response dated March 10, 2020 Received March 20, 2020 by Dennis R. Young
1. The most current definition of a ‘crime gun’;
2. Total number of firearms seized for (a) Crimes and (b) Non-Crimes;
3. Total number of firearms surrendered to police (i.e. during a buy-back or amnesty, turned in voluntarily for destruction, issued with ‘quit claim’ receipts, etc);
4. Total number of crime guns seized that were: (a) ‘used in a criminal offence’; (b) ‘suspected of being used in a criminal offence’; (c) ‘obtained, possessed, or intended to be used to facilitate criminal activity’; (d) ‘serial number removed, altered or obliterated’; (e) ‘adapted for use as a firearm’;
5. Total number of firearms that were recorded as ‘found’;
6. Total number of firearms destroyed;
7. Total number of firearms reported stolen from (a) individuals and (b) businesses;
8. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were reported as stolen from (a) licensed gun owners or (b) licensed businesses;
9. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized from licensed gun owners or licensed businesses (a) for a violent crime, (b) for an administrative or paper firearms crime (i.e. expired license, current address not reported, Authorization to Transport violation, error on registration certificate, firearm not at correct address);
10. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that you attempted to trace;
11. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were successfully traced;
12. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were successfully traced to the U.S.A;
13. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were successfully traced to Canada;
14. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were traced to a licensed gun owner;
15. Total number licensed gun owners charged with providing a ‘crime gun’ to a criminal;
16. Total number of ‘crime guns seized that were (a) restricted, (b) prohibited, or (c) non-restricted;
17. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized that were registered (a) restricted, (b) prohibited (c) non-restricted and
18. Total number of ‘crime guns’ seized by type of firearm (i.e. rifle, shotgun, handgun, toy gun, replica, sawed-off gun, sub-machine gun, machine gun, etc).
AUGUST 24, 2018 – TORONTO POLICE RELEASE CRIME GUN STATS FOR 2007 to 2017
Toronto Police Service FOIP response dated August 24, 2018 – Posted by Dennis R. Young
NO RECORDS TO SUPPORT MINISTER BLAIR’S STATEMENT ON GUN BUY-BACK PLAN
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA HAS NO RECORDS TO SUPPORT MINISTER BLAIR’S STATEMENT ON GUN BUY-BACK PLAN
Department unable to provide the places the Minister visited and the number of gun owners he talked to.
Public Safety Canada’s response to Access to Information Act request File: A-2019-00322 dated March 2, 2020 – By Dennis R. Young – March 4, 2020
Here are the key stakeholders that Minister Blair did NOT talk to about his Buy-Back plan.
• Sheldon Clare, NFA President
• Blair Hagen, NFA Executive VP Communication
• Tony Bernardo, Executive Director, CSSA
• Nicolas Johnson, The Gun Blog
• Guy Morin, President of Everyone Against a Quebec Gun Registry
• Gary Mauser, Professor Emeritus, SFU
• Alison de Groot, Managing Director, Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA)
BLAIR TELLS IPOLITICS CONFISCATION NEEDS NEW LAW, TWO YEARS AWAY – TheGunBlog.ca — 10 Dec 2019
EXCERPT: Immediate vs. Delayed Confiscation: The minister told iPolitics he heard from some gun owners that they preferred immediate confiscation with a payoff, rather than confiscation after death sometimes called “grandfathering.” TheGunBlog.ca couldn’t find any mention of that preference in a comprehensive report on Blair’s confiscation consultations last year.
ALBERTA RCMP: PEACE OFFICER AUTHORITIES – STATE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY
Attached is the latest response from the RCMP regarding the legal advice the RCMP requested of the Dept. of Justice with respect to the High River Forced Entries. It only took two years and they only searched for records in Alberta – not in RCMP HQ in Ottawa as I asked. I’ll be lodging another complaint with the Information Commissioner if they don’t agree to complete the search for record as I requested. RCMP response to Access to Information Act File: A-2016-09452 dated February 7, 2020 received by Dennis R. Young February 12, 2020
Note this paper was written by Peter Mackenzie, Alberta Justice/Specialized Prosecutions. This is the same official who wrote the four-page legal authorities paper requested by Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis on June 25, 2013 – the paper successive Alberta Governments (PC, NDP & UCP) have refused to release – first denying its existence and then withholding it completely citing Solicitor-Client Privilege. The Alberta Information Commissioner has approved to hold an inquiry into the government’s withholding of this record.
ALBERTA INFORMATION COMMISSIONER APPROVES INQUIRY TO OBTAIN HIGH RIVER RCMP FORCED ENTRIES ‘LEGAL AUTHORITIES PAPER’
Letter from Jill Clayton dated October 8, 2019 – Received by Dennis R. Young October 15, 2019
SUMMARY OF CHARTER RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY RCMP IN HIGH RIVER STILL HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC, ALBERTA LEGISLATURE & PARLIAMENT
Trust in the RCMP cannot be rebuilt by covering up the truth! By Dennis R. Young – October 22, 2018
RCMP UNINTENTIONAL DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS STATISTICS – 2017
RCMP UNINTENTIONAL DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS STATISTICS, BY DIVISION – 2017
RCMP Access to Information Response File A-2017-11548 dated January 17, 2020 – Received by Dennis R. Young January 29, 2020
22 Unintentional Discharges in 2017
1 – ‘D’ Division (Manitoba)
11 – ‘E’ Division (British Columbia)
1 – ‘F’ Division (Saskatchewan)
1 – ‘H’ Division (Nova Scotia)
8 – ‘K’ Division (Alberta)
14 with a C8 Carbine
3 with a Smith and Wesson 5946
4 with a Shotgun
1 with a 40 Calibre Glock 22
BLAIR’S BUREAUCRATS FAIL TO PROVIDE LIST OF ALL FIREARMS TO BE BANNED
REQUESTED: LIST OF ALL FIREARMS TO BE BANNED. RESPONSE: NOTHING! ATIP FILE: A-2019-00283
PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONSE: 33 pages (All text redacted) – 218 pages exempted citing ‘Cabinet confidences’
LAST THREE ATIP REQUESTS POSTED = TOTAL of 1,115 Pages exempted citing ‘Cabinet confidences’.
PUBLIC SAFETY ATIP: SELECTION CRITERIA AND LIST OF ‘MILITARY STYLE ASSAULT RIFLES’ TO BE BANNED
PUBLIC SAFETY ATIP: SELECTION CRITERIA AND LIST OF MILITARY STYLE ASSAULT RIFLES TO BE BANNED
PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONSE: 83 pages (753 pages exempted citing “Cabinet confidences’) FILE: A-2019-00281
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Goodale – January 29, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – February 28, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Goodale – March 11, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – March 13, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – April 4, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – April 12, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – May 9, 2019
• Secret Ministerial Briefing Agenda – November 21, 2018 (Note: Mostly redacted)
THANKS TO: Daniel Balofsky, CPA, CA, CLU for sharing the attached response to his Informal Request to Public Safety Canada.
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA ATIP: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BANNING SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARMS
PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONSE: 64 pages (174 pages exempted citing “Cabinet confidences’) FILE: A-2019-00280
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – November 22, 2018
• Combatting Gun and Gang Violence – November 15, 2018
• Bill C-71 – Proposed Response – November 14, 2018
• Public Safety Canada-Led Legislation – October 19, 2018
• 2018-2019 – Supplementary Estimates (A) Hot Issues
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – December 4, 2018
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – January 28, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Goodale – January 29, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – February 28, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – March 13, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – April 4, 2019
• Ministerial Briefing to Minister Blair – April 12, 2019
• Secret Ministerial Briefing Agenda – November 21, 2018