Public safety minister to unveil firearms advisory committee

Firearms Advisory Committee

As a firearms owner I obviously have issues with the  “new” advisory committee, well at least on how they seem to have selected it.  First off public safety minister Ralph Goodale mentions that the original committee was all white and only had one women.  Did I read that correctly?  What does race, colour or gender have anything to do with a firearms committee.  I think the best people for the job should get it and not selected because of gender race, colour….  The choice should be made by what the individual brings to the table.  End of story.  Plus as a white male I am kind of getting tired of feeling like I am a second class citizen in this country.  To me this kind of nonsense is just a ploy to try and keep voters as we know there are a lot of women who seem to love our Prime minster and I think this and the race comments are basically just trying to feed into their voter base.  But thats for another topic and not related to firearms so I will stop there.

As far as the new firearms committee, the names have not been announced but I am sure it will be stacked with anti-gun and RCMP who for the most part want to take our guns.  I would like to see the experience level of the individuals selected to see if they have any knowledge of firearms.  After all to be able to advise on something you should have knowledge about what your advising on.  I wouldn’t hire a cook to do my accounting would you?  So why are we placing people on a committee that know nothing about firearms?  Yes I know I am jumping the “gun” since they have not been named and I could be very wrong, lets hope I am!  Please read the original article below.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is days away from unveiling an overhauled Canadian firearms advisory committee, led by a “distinguished Canadian jurist.”

The body that provides advice and expertise to the government on firearms issues has been vacant since the Liberals came to office in 2015.

Although reluctant to name the new committee members before they’ve all received their security clearances, Goodale said the two vice-chairs are women.

“In addition to representatives of agriculture, hunting and the sporting community, (we made) sure that women, law enforcement, the public health sector were all properly represented in the mix, so that the committee can offer very strong, very qualified advice to the government,” Goodale told CBC News.

During the 2015 election campaign, the Liberals committed to changing the makeup of the committee’s membership, which they had claimed the previous government had stacked with firearms enthusiasts who lobbied hard to loosen restrictions on guns.

“This is the defect that we identified in the committee in the course of the election campaign and explicitly put in the platform — that it needed to be a more balanced, more representative group going forward,” said Goodale.

Even former prime minister Stephen Harper acknowledged the group needed “re-examination” after it advised the government to reclassify a number of prohibited weapons and extend the duration of firearm license from five to 10 years.

That comment led to the government dumping three gun enthusiasts from the committee and replacing them with police officers. Even so, the remaining members were all white, and only one of them was a woman.

The Liberals argued for the inclusion of experts on family violence and mental health.

Despite the delay in getting the committee up and running, Goodale said he’s pleased with the progress so far.

“Sometimes the procedure for getting that done takes longer than you anticipated,” he said, before adding that the full committee could be announced as early as next week.

Source:  CBC

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