Flintlock rifles have an exemption specifically to make life easier for re-enactors, and the millions of dollars and tens of thousands of visitors re-enactors bring in at historical parks across canada every summer.
It's about tourism, including getting the locals to local attractions, not about the few of us who actually do target shooting and hunting with these old guns (yes I'm one of them). Mock battles are
ALWAYS the biggest attractions at historical parks and I'm told they get more visitors on those days than any other average two weeks combined.
If it wasn't for Parks Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/index_e.asp , flintlock rifles would be a non-restricted firearm too.
You see, Parks Canada doesn't pay alot of money, and alot of the workers are student summer workers, and they simply can't/couldn't get enough people who had their FAC/PAL, and don't want to go to the expense of training them, and waiting...etc..etc..etc.. But Parks Canada only uses long arms and blackpowder cannons, they don't have people running around waving handguns, and don't need to.
The fact that Parks Canada uses blackpowder cannons, is the same reason we haven't had anyone push to ban them, despite the occasional idiot hurting themselves with a homemade one.
Make sense now Buster?
P.S. Come hang out in "
Blackpowder and Antiques" sometime, we don't bite.
that's completely ridiculous 
