Dennis Bevington moved, — That Bill C-19, in Clause 29, be amended by replacing lines 2 to 20 on page 10 with the following:
“shall, subject to subsection (3), ensure the destruction, no earlier than three years after the coming into force of section 23 of this Act, of all records in the Canadian Firearms Registry related to the registration of firearms that are neither prohibited firearms nor restricted firearms and all copies of those records under the Commissioner's control.
(2) Each chief firearms officer shall, subject to subsection (3), ensure the destruction, no earlier than three years after the coming into force of section 24 of this Act, of all records under their control related to the registration of firearms that are neither prohibited firearms nor restricted firearms and all copies of those records under their control.
(3) Before destroying the records referred to in subsection (2) or (3), the Commissioner of Firearms or a chief firearms officer, as the case may be, shall contact each province, territory, Indian band and self-governing Aboriginal community to ask whether they intend to create a registry for firearms that are neither prohibited firearms nor restricted firearms, and shall transfer, to any of those entities who indicate that they intend to create such a registry, those records within their control that relate directly or indirectly to that entity.
(4) For the purposes of this section, the Library and Archives of Canada Act and the Privacy Act do not apply with respect to the records referred to in subsections (1) to (3), or to their transfer or destruction.”