38^th Parliament, 1^st Session
(October 4, 2004 - )

Edited Hansard • Number 046A

Monday, January 31, 2005

Questions on the Order Paper

    Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 11, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 59).

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Question No. 54--

Mr. Garry Breitkreuz:

    With regard to the “load leveling” exercise recently completed by the Canada Firearms Centre that involved the mailing of renewal notices to some 770,000 holders of Possession Only Licences, for each province and territory: (a) how many envelopes were sent out; and (b) how many envelopes were returned for each reason noted on the envelope such as “unclaimed”, “no such address”, “address incomplete”, “moved address unknown”, “no such post office”, “refused by addressee”, “deceased” and “unknown”?

Hon. Anne McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.):

    Mr. Speaker, the answer is as follows:

    (a) The number of renewal notices sent to possession only licence holders by province and territory are the following:

    (b) As of Monday, December 13, 2004, 46,509 envelopes were returned as “undelivered” from Canada Post Corporation CPC. The reasons for return were not categorized.