The applicants, the RCMP Registrar of Firearms and a section head, sought to quash subpoenas requiring them to testify at a reference hearing in the Ontario Court of Justice regarding the revocation of firearms registration certificates.
The respondents had obtained the subpoenas under section 698 of the Criminal Code.
The Superior Court of Justice held that a reference under the Firearms Act is not a proceeding to which the Criminal Code applies, as it is more akin to an administrative or civil proceeding.
Consequently, the subpoenas were quashed.
