What did the Auditor General write about “gun control” in Canada?
The Auditor General of Canada’s report to the House of Commons in 1993 (re: “Gun Control Program”, Assistant Auditor General: Richard B. Fadden; Responsible Auditor: Alan Gilmore) contains the following: 27.20 Canada’s gun control program is controversial and complex. Evaluation of the program is therefore essential to give the Canadian public and members of Parliament the assurance that its objectives are being met. A more up-to date evaluation of the program is essential. 27.25 … However, we found several weaknesses in the methodology, which significantly reduce the extent to which government, members of Parliament and the Canadian public can rely on the evaluation to be assured that the gun control program is effective. 27.27 We calculated tests of significance on much of the of the data found in the evaluation. These data included such things as the percentage of firearms-related homicides before the introduction of the legislation in 1978 and the percentage after. We found that
