TREASURY BOARD: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BILL C-68 THE FIREARMS ACT
TREASURY BOARD ATIP RESPONSE: “A review of your request indicates that Treasury Board Secretariat does not hold the information you are seeking.” See wording of request below. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Access to Information Act File A-2019-00891 dated January 17, 2020 Received by Dennis R. Young January 27, 2020
For the period from January 1, 1994 to present, please provide copies of all records, documents, reports, studies, and correspondence, presentations that quantify and qualify the projected impact and actual impact the implementation of Bill C-68, an Act respecting firearms and other weapons, Statutes of Canada 1995 Chapter 39, on the economy of Canada, including but not limited to:
• the impact on the number of jobs, the number of businesses, their sales and operations
• the impact on firearms importers, exporters, manufacturers, dealers, their sales and operations
• the impact on number of visitors to and from Canada and tourist dollars spent in Canada
• the impact on aboriginal guiding and outfitting jobs and businesses
• the impact on sporting goods sales and manufacturers
• the impact on the sales and manufacturing of recreational vehicles
• the impact on trade between Canada and the U.S.A. and other foreign countries
• the impact on the gun clubs and shooting ranges and the economic spin-offs in their communities
• the impact on firearms collectors and museums
• the impact on hunting and shooting sports
• the impact on the number of hunters and the consequential effect on wildlife populations
• the impact on the number of firearms collectors and museums
• the impact on gun shows and economic spin-offs in the communities that host them
• the impact on the number of violent crimes and related costs
• the impact on government operations, personnel, expenditures and revenue
• the impact on customs and excise operations, personnel and expenditures
• the impact on police operations, enforcement, personnel and expenditures
• the impact on the court system and the corrections and parole system.
• the impact on and costs to federal government departments and agencies
• the impact on and costs to provincial governments
• the mpact on and costs to municipal governments
THIS WEEKS POSTINGS TO THE CANADIAN FIREARMS DIGEST
National and International Gun Control News for the week ending January 24, 2020
FIREARMS ACT FAILS TO TRACK HIGHEST PRIORITY GUN CONTROL TARGETS
FIREARMS ACT DOESN’T AUTHORIZE THE RCMP TO TRACK 459,538 CONVICTED CRIMINALS PROHIBTED FROM OWNING FIREARMS BY THE COURTS
By Dennis R. Young – January 24, 2020 – Comment on RCMP Commissioner’s Firearms Report for 2018 [Date modified: 2020-01-22]
THIS WEEKS POSTINGS TO THE CANADIAN FIREARMS DIGEST
National and International Gun Control News for the week ending January 17, 2020
HOW MANY SEMI-AUTOS WILL BILL BLAIR BAN?
In 2006, RCMP reported there were 990,297 Non-Restricted and Restricted Semi-Autos
RCMP Response to Breitkreuz ATIP Request File: GA-3451-02714/06 dated November 6, 2006
ALL THE THINGS THE RCMP DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT ‘CRIME GUNS’
RCMP no records response to Access to Information Act request file: A-2016-02502
UNKNOWN: the numbers and types of guns used in crime;
UNKNOWN: where the crime guns came from;
UNKNOWN: the number of persons charged with providing the crime guns to persons charged with the crime;
UNKNOWN: the number of crime guns that were registered and unregistered;
UNKNOWN: the number of licensed gun owners that were charged with the crime committed with the crime gun or for providing the crime gun to the perpetrator;
UNKNOWN: the number of licensed gun owners that were charged with ‘careless storage’ of their firearm after having their firearm stolen from them; and
UNKNOWN: the number of crime guns that were located and identified using the Canadian Firearms Information System (CFIS).
STATSCAN IS DEVELOPING A NEW ‘STANDARDIZED DEFINITION OF CRIME-GUN’
Selected comments on the definition of “crime gun” By Gary A. Mauser and Dennis R. Young – January 2020
Statistics Canada Recommendation 4: That the Police Information Statistics Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police together with the Special Purpose Firearms Committee develop a standardized definition of crime-gun and review the current definition of a firearm related offense in the UCR against this standardized definition to ensure consistency.
THIS WEEKS POSTINGS TO THE CANADIAN FIREARMS DIGEST
National and International Gun Control News for the week ending January 10, 2020
SELF-DEFENCE AND FIREARMS IN CANADA
https://canadafreepress.com/article/self-defence-and-firearms-in-canada
SELF-DEFENCE AND FIREARMS IN CANADA
We are not yet become a nation of cowards and the law does not require our submission to criminals. That is a decision which ought to be made by each individual in the circumstances at hand, being trusted and empowered by his government to act appropriately. By Rick Hemmingson, Lacombe, Alberta – Canada Free Press – January 8, 2020
EXCERPT: Recent news stories about the use of a firearm to stop the commission of various crimes and subsequent statements from the RCMP have (again) raised the issue of armed self-defence under Canadian law. Does that right still exist? If so, how and when can it be exercised?
FINDINGS: VANCOUVER PD DOESN’T KEEP STATISTICS ON ‘CRIME GUNS’
B.C. INFORMATION COMMISSIONER’S FINDINGS: VANCOUVER PD DOESN’T KEEP STATISTICS ON ‘CRIME GUNS’
The VPD even tell the Office of the B.C. Information Commissioner: “There is no such definition within the VPD or NWEST.”
Letter of Findings by the Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner of B.C. dated January 6, 2020 – Vancouver Police Department File FOI 19-0222A
NWEST ‘CRIME GUN’ DEFINITION: The 2014 Annual Report prepared by the Canadian Firearms Program, Firearms Investigative & Enforcement Services Directorate (FIESD), Firearms Operations and Enforcement Support Unit (FOES) NWEST and the RCMP rely on a new FIESD definition of a “crime gun”: A firearm is a crime gun if it meets any one of the following criteria: “any firearm that is illegally acquired, suspected to have been used in crime (includes found firearms), has an obliterated serial number, illegally modified (e.g., barrel significantly shortened). (Page 10 of the 2014 FIESD Report). https://canadafreepress.com/article/critique-of-canada-firearms-program-2014-fiesd-annual-report