If you read the prime minister’s Mandate Letter to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair[i] but don’t know anything about current firearm licencing requirements, you will be forgiven for coming away with the impression there are no mechanisms to revoke a firearms license in Canada.
The prime minister’s Mandate Letter to Minister Blair deliberately gives that impression.
To set the record straight and to shine the light of truth on the prime minister’s disingenuous statements, here is what the law currently says about firearm licence revocations in Canada.