There were questions and frustration at a committee meeting on the federal government’s proposed amendments to its firearms legislation, Bill C-21.
“They did it all backwards,” said Bloc Québécois MP Kristina Michaud, through a parliamentary interpreter. “It’s difficult to find your way through such a binder and explain to constituents what this is all about,” she said during the Dec. 6 meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety. The binder of proposed changes to Bill C-21 runs well over 400 pages, and was added on Nov. 22.
Michaud said the proposals to significantly expand the list of banned guns are confusing, and she spent nearly an hour questioning witnesses from the Department of Justice and the RCMP, trying to nail down some definitions of what types of guns could be banned, and why….