THIRD HIGH RIVER REQUEST FOR INQUIRY SUBMITTED
THIRD REQUEST FOR INQUIRY: HIGH RIVER FORCED ENTRIES AND RIGHTS VIOLATIONS – Submitted to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta dated April 9, 2019 OPIC File: 004947 – Alberta Justice and Solicitor General File: 2014-G-0335
- Inadequate Searches for Records
- Missing Meeting Minutes on $2.45 Million in Damage Claims
- Missing Meeting Minutes on Rights Violations
- Failed to Provide all Correspondence, E-Mails, Reports, Advice and Legal Opinions
- Disclosure Harmful to Law Enforcement
NFA – SENATOR’S ATTEMPT TO BAN HANDGUNS FAILS
SENATOR MCPHEDRAN TO MOVE BILL C-71 AMENDMENT TO “PROHIBIT” HANDGUNS IN CANADA – News Release – Ottawa, April 8, 2019 – Today at the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence’s (SECD) clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms, Senator Marilou McPhedran, an independent Senator for Manitoba, will move to amend clause 16 that already proposes to amend subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code – exactly the subsection that could also be amended to add handguns to the “prohibited firearm” list in the Code. CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST
ALBERTA JUSTICE FAILS TO PRODUCE RECORDS ON CHARTER VIOLATIONS BY RCMP IN HIGH RIVER
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS LATER AND ALBERTA JUSTICE ONCE AGAIN FAILS TO PRODUCE RECORDS REQUESTED ON CHARTER VIOLATIONS BY RCMP IN HIGH RIVER – “I cannot determine whether the Public Body has conducted an adequate search under section 10(1).” Excerpt from ‘Letter of Findings’ by the Office Alberta Information Commissioner dated March 22, 2019
RELEASED: 191 PAGES OF BILL BLAIR’S BAN HANDGUNS CONSULTATIONS
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA RELEASES 191 OF 220 PAGES ON BILL BLAIR’S BAN HANDGUNS AND ASSAULT WEAPONS CONSULTATIONS – Public Safety Canada ATIP Response dated March 18, 2019 Received by Dennis R. Young on March 27, 2019
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
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
STILL A SECRET: HIGH RIVER FORCED ENTRIES LEGAL AUTHORITIES PAPER
Once Again, Alberta Justice Withholds the Legal Authorities Paper that would shed some light on why RCMP kicked in hundreds and hundreds of doors, causing $2.45 million in damages to 2,210 High River homes. What is more important, protecting the ‘privileged information’ of bureaucrats or rebuilding trust in the RCMP? Alberta Justice and Solicitor General FOIP Response dated February 14, 2019 – Received February 18, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
CSSA: ISSUES ADDRESSED AT BILL C-71 SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING
NEWS RELEASE OTTAWA – Canadian Shooting Sports Association President, Steve Torino, and Executive Director, Tony Bernardo, testified before the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence in a marathon session last evening that brought organizations and individuals on both sides of the gun debate together in the new Senate of Canada Building to examine Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms. Messrs. Torino and Bernardo outlined several significant problems with Bill C-71 including the change to lifetime background checks; changes to the licence verification process; requirements for businesses to keep detailed recordings of all firearm transactions; changes to the electronic conditions of Authorizations to Transport (ATTs); and the removal of the Governor-in-Council to declare a firearm to be non-restricted. [Click on link above to read the rest]