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Section IV: Other Items of Interest

1. Legislation Administered by the National Parole Board

The Minister has sole responsibility to Parliament for the following Acts:

Corrections and Conditional Release Act
- S.C. 1992, c.20, as amended by S.C. 1995, c.42, S.C.
- 1997, c.17 and its Regulations
Criminal Records Act
- R.S. 1985, c.C-47

The Minister shares responsibility to Parliament for the following Acts:

Criminal Code
- R.S. 1985, c. C-46
Prisons and Reformatories Act
- R.S. 1985, c. P-20
Letters Patent constituting the Office of Governor General of Canada (1947)
- Canada Gazette, 1947, Part I, Vol. 81, p. 3104, reprinted in R.S. 1985, Appendix II, No. 31

2. Contacts

Office	Address
National Office	Director, Communications 410 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, On�� Phone: (613) 954-6547 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (613) 957-3241
Atlantic Region	Regional Director 1045 Main Street Unit 101 Moncton, NB�� Phone: (506) 851-6345 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (506) 851-6926
Quebec Region	Regional Director 200 Ren�-L�vesque Blvd. W. 10th floor, Suite 1001 � West Tower Montreal, Qc�� Phone: (514) 283-4584 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (514) 283-5484
Ontario Region	Regional Director 516 O�Connor Drive Kingston, ON�� Phone: (613) 634-3857 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (613) 634-3861
Prairies Region	Regional Director 101 � 22nd Street East 6th floor Saskatoon, SK�� Phone: (306) 975-4228 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (306) 975-5892 or Scotia Place, Scotia 2 � Suite 401 10060 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB�� Phone: (780) 495-3404 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (780) 870-2498
Pacific Region	Regional Director 32315 South Fraser Way Room 305 Abbotsford, BC�� Phone: (604) 870-2468 K1A 0R1�� Fax: (604) 870-2498

The National Parole Board's internet site address is: http://www.npb-cnlc.gc.ca/

3. 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
NPB Funding: $858,000 per year.
Description of the Horizontal Initiative: 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 Involved in each Program
- 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.
Names of Programs
- (a) Quality conditional release decisions.
Total Allocation
- N/A
Forecasted Spending for 2007-08
- $ 858,000
Actual Spending in 2007-08
- $ 858,000
Planned Results for 2007-08
- 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.
Achieved Results, 2007-08
- In 2007/08, NPB completed over 1400 reviews for offenders with firearms convictions.
  Since 1999/00, the Board has completed over 15,000 reviews involving offenders with firearms convictions.