https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/d-1/page-3.html#h-171996
- 37 (1) No person shall, unless the person is registered under section 38 or exempt from registration under section 39 or 39.1, knowingly examine or possess a controlled good or transfer a controlled good to another person.
part of the controlled goods list
Group 2 of the Guide
- 3 (1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 6, goods set out in Group 2 of the Guide, other than those described in any of the following items, are controlled goods
Imaging or countermeasure equipment specially designed for military use as follows:
- a
Recorders and image processing equipment;
- b
Cameras, photographic equipment and film processing equipment;
- c
Image intensifier equipment;
- d
Infrared or thermal imaging equipment;
- e
Imaging radar sensor equipment;
- f
Countermeasure or counter-countermeasure equipment, for the equipment specified by 2-15.a. to 2-15.e.
The imaging or countermeasure equipment include the following components:
- i
Infrared image converter tubes;
- ii
Image intensifier tubes, other than first generation image intensifier tubes;
- iii
Detector arrays; or
- iv
Cooling systems for imaging systems.
regular police have authority to enforce, but as we know - gun laws are convoluted and defence and controlled goods is even more. RCMP would deal with this, but by volume, it is impossible for them to deal with it unless they get a "lead" to follow up on. There is nothing in the criminal code that prohibits it.
