Government of Canada legislation targets intimate-partner violence
Legislation
North America
- Combat IPV and GBV, and self-harm involving firearms by creating “red flag” and “yellow flag” laws. These laws would allow people, such as concerned friends or relatives, to apply to the courts for the immediate removal of an individual's firearms, and allow a Chief Firearms Officer to suspend and review an individual's licence privileges to acquire or use firearms.
- Fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, and by enhancing the capacity of the RCMP and the CBSA to combat the illegal importation of firearms.
- Help create safer communities by supporting municipalities that ban handguns through bylaws restricting storage and transportation in their jurisdictions. Individuals who violate these municipal by-laws would be subject to federal penalties, including licence revocation and criminal sanctions.
- Give young people opportunities and resources they need to avoid criminal behaviour by providing funding to municipalities and Indigenous communities to support youth programs.
- Protect Canadians from gun violence by creating new offences for altering the cartridge magazine component of a firearm and depicting violence in firearms advertising, introducing tighter restrictions on imports of ammunition, and prohibit the import, export, sale, and transfer of all replica firearms.
- Complete the prohibition of assault-style firearms to ensure these weapons cannot be legally used, transported, sold, transferred, or bequeathed by individuals in Canada. Also to move forward with a buyback program in the coming months to support the safe removal of these firearms.
