Hon. Tony Dean: Senator Yussuff, I, too, would be concerned if sport shooters were impacted negatively by legislation of this sort. But if I have my initial reading of the legislation correct, sport shooters who are part of sporting federations would be unaffected in the sense that they would be exempted from the requirements in this legislation with respect to handguns and other guns if they were in a program of training and exercises that led towards regional, national or international competitions. I’m just checking on that.

Secondly, I know a number of us were alarmed last weekend to learn of a tragic shooting in Ontario — I believe it was in Hamilton — in which a Canadian landlord gunned down two of his tenants as they fled from the rental home after a dispute over property. Police said that witnesses saw a young couple, both in their mid-20s, fleeing from their Hamilton, Ontario home. Following the killings, the gunman barricaded himself in the apartment and there was more tragedy involved because the gunman himself ended up dying in an altercation with police.

The point here is that we learned from reading about this that the killer was a gun owner, and several handguns and rifles were found in the home. Furthermore, they were registered to that user. In addition to the first question, would you have any comment on the second one?

Hon. Tony Dean, pursuant to notice of May 30, 2023, moved:

That the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit with the Clerk of the Senate a report related to its study on issues relating to security and defence in the Arctic, including Canada’s military infrastructure and security capabilities, if the Senate is not then sitting, and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate.