Editor:
Open letter to the Honourable Suzanne Anton, Attorney General, Solicitor General.
I am writing this letter to see if you can help me obtain my renewal for my PAL from the RCMP.
I mailed my renewal form in December 2012.
In January of 2013 I phoned the RCMP in Miramichi to check.
They told me everything was fine and they had renewed it and sent it to the RCMP in Surrey and that I could call them and that’s what I did.
That’s when I was told by the RCMP in Surrey that they wouldn’t send it to me until they have investigated me.
They also said I now had to fill out forms to be a gun collector.
Most of my collection is more than 100 years old from the First World War.
They have been investigating me now for going into the second year.
In this time the RCMP has told me that I cannot pack a gun, so my hunting licence was a total waste of money.
During this time whenever I called the RCMP in Surrey I continued to ask what have I done wrong.
They keep saying you have done nothing wrong, but we have to investigate you.
In July 2013 a package of new forms from the RCMP program in Kamloops arrived, asking me to complete them which I did and returned them July 29, 2013.
Five months later a letter arrived from the RCMP in Kamloops telling me I didn’t make it plain enough why I want to be a collector and also claimed that I had not answered all of the questions, which I had.
If the forms are not redone and returned to Kamloops by Feb. 28, 2014 my application will not be processed.
I am wondering what the next step of the RCMP will be if my application file is closed.
I have no PAL.
I paid more than $100 going on two years ago and my cheque was cashed in December 2012.
I can’t carry a gun, can’t hunt. So will the next step be the RCMP will come to take my property?
I understand as solicitor general you are my last hope to help me with this problem with the RCMP firearms program.
Charles Douglas
Riske Creek