Did you miss the news release for C-71?
"...by restoring a system in which Parliament defines the classes but entrusts experts in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to classify firearms, without political influence."
It is specifically said that they will let the RCMP classify firearms (and as we know they make crazy decisions). They maybe don't *make* the law, but they can interpret the law in a manner that has the same net effect.