FIREARMS FACTS UPDATE

COSTS OF FIREARMS PROGRAM
PRIOR TO PASSAGE OF BILL C-68

MAY 30, 2006 - LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT

Below, you will find links to the two best sources of information provide the annual cost to the federal government for the firearms program prior to the passage and coming into force of Bill C-68.

The first is a graph, from the 2004-2005 Departmental Performance Report of the Canada Firearms Centre, showing the annual costs of the firearms program from 1995-96 to 2004-2005. It indicates that the annual costs were $12.8 million for 1995-96, which is the fiscal year during which Bill C-68 received royal assent (in December). Please see Table 3.2 (Multi-Year Perspective on Program Costs) on p. 26:
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rma/dpr1/04-05/CFC-CAFC/CFC-CAFCd45_e.pdf

The second source of information is the response to a question posed by Mr. Breitkreuz during debate on Bill C-68. The government advised that the total federal cost of administering the firearms program in 1993-94 was $15.5 million. Please see the second page of text from the House of Commons Debates (Questions on the Order Paper – Question No. 137) dated 13 June 2005:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/PDF/35/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/han217-e.pdf

GARRY BREITKREUZ'S 2006 ELECTION PROMISE: A WORK IN PROGRESS http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2006_new/57.htm

GUN CONTROL LAW IN CANADA - APRIL 1994
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2006_new/58.doc

PRE BILL C-68 CRIMINAL CODE OF CANADA
http://home.cogeco.ca/~akimoya/rfc/pre.c68.ccc.html