Congrats.  We need all the help, prayer, mojo, etc we can get down here.

Unfortunately you will still will need to have a license, subject to renewal and refusal every 5 years, to own any type of firearm manufactured after 1897 and quite a few manufactured before 1897. There are some long guns that will still need to be registered, only what are termed UNRESTRICTED FIREARMS will not need to be registered. You will still need to inform the federal government within 30 days if you move. You must still allow the police entry into your dwelling to inspect your firearms storage and assist the police the police every way possible while they search your dwelling anywhere they think there might be a firearm or record of a firearm, etc.

It is however, a small step in the right direction.

Regards,
Bradford

Well requiring a licence to own firearms hasnt really been a item of contention, in fact most gun owners agree, that it at least appeases "the die hard gun haters". 
And the firearms that require registration are arms that  are mostly ones that can be used as full automatic and a few that are easily converted. Plus hand guns that have required registration since approximately 1956 and there isn't must resistance to that by most, other then a small group of what are know as fundamentalists. As far a safe storage is concerned the requirement in the new form is storage "when there is a absence of of a licensed person present". Which means when your not home they must be stored safely as required and most can live with that as well, so we here are very happy. 
And being truthful the group know as "fundamentalists" kinda scare us ol single shot guys ....
Ive seen some of these guys at ranges and I think many of them could use a few years of active work in the army, then most would loss that need for burning up ammo.
Just my thoughts of course.
As it is things are good again, matter of fact times are great for Canadians  who want to hunt and shoot regular guns without a paper trail and someone knowing what we own as far as guns are concerned.
So in closing I guess we can paint this in many colors but right now we are 1000 times better off then 24 hours ago.
Even though the system has cost us $3.22 Billion the last 17 years.
I got many of my registrations out and might light a fire with them soon. 
SST

OK instead I''l wipe "me arse" with them and send them to the bleeding hearts who lost the election.
I was so happy last night I had a couple of shots from the bottle of scotch that sits on the top shelf...
SST

Matt, look at the tax consequences of such a move.  You will be subject to US tax for ten years.  Although there are tax treaties Canada does not apply them to all situations thus you could be double taxed.  If you have done estate planning in the US and formed a trust, under Canadian law (actually the proposed law but you are required to live by it even though it has not been formally adopted and is revised with each reading) that trust is considered an offshore trust and subject to strict Canadian tax filing rules even if you created it 20 years before your change of residency.  I have a family member who impulsively changed his residency and three years later moved back solely due to the tax nightmare.  His US resident children would have been subjected to Canadian taxes just because they were beneficiaries of a trust he set up 20 years before.

Singleshotom,

Nice to have a spokesman for most gun owners and to realize they stand behind appeasing "the die hard gun haters". The die hard gun haters I've come across will not rest until there is no civilian ownership of any type of firearm.

The only change being contemplated in the Firearm Act, is to remove the requirement to register Non-Restricted Firearms. I assume that you are aware that any government in power can,  on whim  {Order in Council} , change the classification of any Non-Restricted Firearm to that of Restricted or Prohibited.

Handguns have been regulated in Canada way before 1956, with no reduction in criminal misuse. I am curious what you are referring to regarding "the new form" detailing the Regulations For The Storage of Firearms. 

The term  "easily converted" regarding converting a semi-auto to full auto is undefined in law and means something quite different to a RCMP Weapons Technician than it does to you or me.  I remember an article about, I think an Model 1873 Winchester rifle converted to automatic fire.

I see that you are are kinda scared of " a small group of what are known as fundamentalists". Are these Muslims, Christians, or possibly just people that like firearms that are not particularly your cup of tea?

I consider myself an "ol single shot guy" I own very few post 1897 firearms and no semi or fully automatic  rifles, but I fail to see how registering any of them would prevent or even reduce criminal misuse.

I would reserve my satisfaction with the Firearms Act and the burning of your registration certificates,until such time that actual positive changes are made to it. Political parties of all types have been known to ignore, or even to do the opposite of what was promised on the campaign trail.

Regards,
Bradford

Well I'm not going to get in a debate as to whats good or whats not so good, all I'm going to say I have been involved in working with a couple of groups to rid us of the long gun registry here in Canada.
And as far as restricted weapons are concerned I own many of them and I have no problem with going through the steps involved in using them as I have for the last 40 + yrs when I traveled in Canada and the USA competing in that discipline of the shooting sport. So to me there is no change in the time Ive been in the restricted shooting sports.
What has been a huge change here in Canada is the long gun registry and licensing of gun owners which the majority of gun owners seem to accept. The long gun registry has been a $ eating useless exercise. And we have tried to kill it for the last dozen years and due to the political picture it was impossible and now its going to die, so we have finally killed it with this last election.
As I see it we are "far better off then many in other places, 
We can buy a gun anywhere in Canada and have it sent to our home via mail, we don't require a waiting period, we don't require a dealer involved, we can go to another province and buy a gun and take it home right from there.
Legally you cant in the USA. So requiring a license to own and buy guns to me is actually quite simple, no different then having a license to drive. I can live with that and most gun owners are the same.
As far as "prohibitive arms are concerns we have been working on the people involved to possible relax some the definitions but in many cases it isn't going to happen. 
I live in a province with the highest number of arms per person and I haven't heard of anyone having theirs arms removed due to lapsing of a license to own.  Unless they have been involved in some sort of illegal activity which lead to an inspection of his property.
  All over the world it gets worse for gun owners and as that is happening we have taken a step in the other direction. GREAT NEWS