MP BRAD TROST’S FOUR ORDER PAPER QUESTIONS – MARCH 18, 2019
Q-23192 Firearms Interest Police (FIP) Database Deficiencies
Q-23202 Auditor General Firearms Program ‘major additional costs’
Q-23212 Benefits of Firearms Ownership
Q-23222 Effectiveness of Firearms Interest Police (FIP) Database
149 FIREARMS LOST BY & STOLEN FROM POLICE & PROVINCIAL AGENCIES IN 2017
FIREARMS REPORTED BY ‘PUBLIC SERVICE AGENCIES’ BY PROVINCE FOR 2016 AND 2017 – See detailed RCMP Access to Information Act response dated March 4, 2019 attached.- Analysis by Dennis R. Young – March 15, 2019
TOTAL FIREARMS LOST BY & STOLEN FROM POLICE & PROVINCIAL AGENCIES IN 2016 = 79
TOTAL FIREARMS LOST BY & STOLEN FROM POLICE AND PROVINCIAL AGENCIES IN 2017 = 149
340 DAYS TO PROCESS ATIP REQUEST FOR FIREARMS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES
WORDING OF REQUEST: “For the period from 1993 to present, please provide copies of all Cost-Benefit Analyses conducted on firearms legislation, regulations, policies and programs.”
Extension of Time Limit Letter dated March 1, 2019 received March 11, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
RCMP ‘UNABLE TO LOCATE RECORDS’ OF FIREARMS ‘USED’ IN CRIME
RCMP undated Access to Information Act response received March 12, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
JUNE 29, 2018 – WORDING OF MY ATIP REQUEST: “The Library of Parliament Research Branch examined two different reports published by Statistics Canada on violent crime in 1999. They determined that the “Presence of a Firearm in Violent Incidents” was 4.1%, but the “Use of a Firearm in Violent Incidents” was only 1.4% – almost three times lower than the figure reported by Statistics Canada and accepted and repeated by the media without any explanation or clarification. On July 21, 1997, the J.P.R. Murray, Commissioner of the RCMP wrote the Deputy Minister of Justice to complain about the department’s misrepresentation of RCMP statistics. The Commissioner set the record straight: “Furthermore, the RCMP investigated 88,162 actual violent crimes during 1993, where only 73 of these offences, or 0.08%, involved the use of firearms.” Copy of this letter attached for easy reference.
For each year from 2000 to 2017 and for each division within the RCMP please provide copies of records, documents, reports, spreadsheets, statistics, evaluations, studies or correspondence showing: (1) the total number of violent offences, and (2) the number of violent offences that involved the actual use of a firearm.”
MARCH 12, 2019 – RCMP RESPONSE: “Based on the information provided, a search for records was conducted in the Contract and Indigenous Policing (C&IP) directorate. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate records which respond to your request.”
GUNS IN FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS & AGENCIES
Summary of Attached RCMP Access to Information Response dated February 27, 2019
- 106,342 FIREARMS OWNED BY 1,823 FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
- 296 FIREARMS LOST AND STOLEN
- LIST OF IMPORTANT STATISTICS NOT KEPT BY THE RCMP FIREARMS PROGRAM
UPDATED AUTHORIZATION TO CARRY (ATC) STATISTICS BY PROVINCE
RCMP RELEASE UPDATED AUTHORIZATION TO CARRY (ATC) STATISTICS BY PROVINCE – RCMP ATIP Response dated Feb 20, 2019 – Received March 6, 2019 by Dennis R. Young – Thanks to TheGunBlog.ca for the statistics and the photo.
- ATCs issued for Self Protection from Human Threats = Exempted (See note below)
- ATCs Issued for Employment = 6,688
- ATCs Issued for Wilderness Protection = 224
NOTE: The number of ATCs issued for Self-Protection from human threats withheld under section 17 of the Access to Information Act: “The head of a government institution may refuse to disclose any record requested under this Act that contains information the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to threaten the safety of individuals.” A complaint will be filed with the Information Commissioner challenging this exemption. QUESTION: How can releasing a number threaten anyone’s safety?
RCMP DOES NOT DEFINE ‘CRIME GUNS’
RCMP ATIP RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ON ‘CRIME GUN’ STATISTICS: “Please note that items 1,2 and 5-12 produced no records, as the RCMP does not define ‘crime guns’, and therefore cannot provide statistics relating to ‘crime guns’.” RCMP Response dated Feb 25, 2019 Received March 6, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY: FIREARMS PROGRAM ERRORS FOR 2017
CANADIAN FIREARMS PROGRAM: RCMP REPORT ON LICENSING AND REGISTRATION ERRORS FOR 2017 – Why weren’t these errors reported in the 2017 RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Report tabled in Parliament in December 2018? – Analysis and Commentary by Dennis R. Young March 3, 2019
MAUSER: BILL C-71 ENDANGERS PUBLIC SAFETY
CHARTS AND GRAPHS
- Handgun and Long gun Homicides as a Percentage of Firearms Homicides
- Homicide Methods, Canada (1990-2017)
- Suicide Methods, Canadian Territories (2007-2016)
NO ‘EVIDENCE’ TO SUPPORT BILL C-71 ATT AMENDMENTS
“The Canadian Firearms Program does not have a specific costing breakdown associated to the process for the issuance of an Authorization to Transport”. RCMP E-Mail dated Feb 28, 2019