About the FSAQ

The Fédération Sportive d'Airsoft du Québec (FSAQ) was created on March 13, 2019 and was the result of long preparatory work which began in the spring of 2018. The founding members, six in number, wanted to create an organization open, inclusive, democratic and representative of its members in order to accomplish its mission.

The FSAQ is a non-profit organization duly registered with the Registraire des Entreprises du Québec (NEQ : 1174394222).

Historical  

The first two years of existence of the FSAQ (2019 and 2020) were above all years of structuring and building the organization. It was in 2021 and 2022 that the FSAQ really took off and was led to fully play its role of defending the interests of its members within the framework of the representations that were made to federal government authorities during the bill. C-21 that wanted to ban Airsoft equipment.

The fight to save the sport

The FSAQ worked together with several stakeholders from the Airsoft and Paintball communities in Canada to establish a strategy and a common action plan aimed at changing the government's position regarding the banning of Airsoft and part of Paintball, more precisely the “MagFed” Paintball community.

The FSAQ has taken a leadership role in this fight for the survival of the sport. So it organized a vast public relations campaign with local and national media whose objective was to explain that Airsoft and Paintball were only games played with simple toys in a controlled and safe context. It also organized representations to the Government of Canada and members of the Canadian Parliament, and as part of these representations she produced a brief which was submitted to the public security committee and it testified before this same committee.

The conclusion of all these efforts was that in the fall of 2022, the Government of Canada removed from its Bill C-21 all references aimed at banning the sport, preferring to return later with another bill that will establish a framework for the sport of that what falls under the federal jurisdiction. The FSAQ could therefore say mission accomplished at that moment.

After C-21

After the hard fight of 2021 and 2022, 2023 was a preparatory year in order to return to the Canadian and Quebec governments as well as to the Airsoft and Paintball community of Quebec, which had so supported the FSAQ in its efforts, with a regulatory approach aimed at two things. Firstly, propose supervision aimed at ensuring the safe practice of sport for all and secondly, propose a national promotional program aimed at making sport accessible to the general public.

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