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Table 7: Horizontal Initiatives
Name of Horizontal Initiative: Firearms
Name of Lead Department(s): Canada Firearms Center
Start Date of the Horizontal Initiative: 1995
End Date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing
Total Federal Funding Allocation: $858,000 per year
Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): Reduce firearms tragedies, including accidental injuries or death and the criminal use of firearms.
Shared Outcome(s): Safer communities
Governance Structure(s): Roles/responsibilities set out in legislation (e.g. Firearms Act.)
| Federal Partners | Names of Programs for Federal Partners | Total Allocation | Forecasted Spending for 2008-09 |
Actual Spending for 2008-09 |
Planned Results for 2008-09 |
Achieved Results in 2008-09 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Firearms Centre, RCMP, Public safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, Justice Department for International Trade, Canada Border Services, Correctional Service Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Office of Information Commissioner, Treasury Board Secretariat. | (a) Quality conditional release decisions. | N/A | $858,000 | $858,000 | Planned spending in 2007/08 was intended to provide NPB with the capacity to manage workloads related to changes in the Criminal Code which support the Firearms initiative. These changes provided longer sentences for firearms convictions and created the need for more conditional release reviews. | Since 1999/00, the Board has completed over 15,000 reviews involving offenders with firearms convictions. |