Q-149 — Mr. Breitkreuz (
Yorkton—Melville) — With regard to the Canadian Firearms Program: (a) what is the total amount of money s
pent on the program since 1995; (b) how many employees are working in and for the program; (c) how many police officers and police personnel are working in the program; (d) how many employees in the program are paid for by the federal government; (e) what is the total number of firearms registered; (f) what is the total
number of firearms still ...[+++] to be registered; (g) how many firearms transfers have there been since December 1, 1998; (h) what is the total number of valid firearms licence holders; (i) what is the total number of gun owners that still don't have a firearms licence; (j) what is the error rate in the firearms licencing and registration system; (k) in what percentage of all violent crimes are firearms actually used in the commission of the offence; (l) what percentage of all homicides are committed with handguns and prohibited firearms; (m) what percentage of firearms homicides are committed with registered firearms; (n) what percentage of firearms homicides are committed with firearms that should have been registered but were not; (o) what percentage of all homicides are committed with long guns; (p) what percentage of all robberies are committed with handguns and prohibited firearms; (q) what percentage of all robberies are committed with long guns; (r) how many times are firearms used by citizens for self-defence every year; (s) how many individuals have a record in the Firearms Interest Police data base; (t) how many people are prohibited from owning firearms; (u) how many violations of these firearms prohibition orders have there been; (v) how many guns have been seized from these prohibited firearms owners; (w) how many times have these prohibited firearms owners been checked to make sure they have not acquired firearms illegally; (x) how many people have had their firearms licences refused or revoke ...