PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA ATIP: OPTIONS FOR BANNING GUNS
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA INTERIM ATIP RESPONSE ON OPTIONS FOR BANNING GUNS
Public Safety Canada Access to Information Act: Requested November 10, 2018 – Interim response received May 15, 2020
WORDING OF REQUEST: This is further to your request under the Access to Information Act for: (As clarified on August 11, 2019) – “For the period from October 2015 to present please provide copies of all studies, papers, proposals, impact assessments, cost-benefit analyses, recommendations, polls, focus groups, Briefing Notes to the Minister and Advice to the Minister examining the efficacy, arguments for and against and advantages and disadvantages of gun control measures considered by the government including the following: 1. Banning handguns 2. Banning semi-automatic firearms 3. Banning all firearms 4. Central Storage/Repositories for firearms in urban centres.”
INTERIM #1 RESPONSE 409 PAGES: https://dennisryoung.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Public-Safety-Interim-1-Release-package-A-2018-00301.pdf
YET ANOTHER PROBLEM EMERGES IN THE LIBERAL FIREARMS PLAN
GUNTER: Yet another problem emerges in the Liberal firearms plan
EXCERPT: It is standard in Canada if you have been convicted of a violent crime, are a registered sex offender, have ever been designated a dangerous offender, are on probation or parole, are subject to a restraining order or peace bond, have been ordered deported or barred from hunting, you lose your ability to buy or possess guns. That makes sense. But as Young points out, the federal government and the RCMP make no effort to keep track of people who have been banned. One of the hoops for legit owners is they report to police any change of address within 30 days or face up to two years in prison. By Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun – April 18, 2020 https://dennisryoung.ca/2020/04/19/yet-another-problem-emerges-in-the-liberal-firearms-plan/
TONY BERNARDO COMMENT: “Thank you Mr. Gunter. Another missive of resounding common sense. When a government – under the guise of crime control – places lawful citizens under this type of intrusive scrutiny while giving a free ride to proven criminals, any sensible person must question the true motives of government.” 26 Thumbs Up on April 19th
CSSA POSITION STATEMENT ON FIREARM PROHIBITION ORDERS
People, not objects, commit crime. While many groups campaign against legal guns and legal gun ownership, we know firearms are harmless unless a person with evil intent picks it up and uses it to commit an evil act. That’s why we’re pushing the government to strictly monitor over 443,000 people courts deem too dangerous to possess guns, not the 2.2 million people who the RCMP investigated and deemed trustworthy of firearm ownership. CSSA SPECIAL REPORT – DECEMBER 4, 2019
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’.