Mr. Speaker, I, too, have a question that is troubling me, a conundrum as the hon. member across termed it.
Accepting that the federal government does not want a long gun registry, what I fail to understand is why the government will not respect the wishes of democratically elected governments at different levels, such as at the provincial level, that act on the advice of the police and respect the decisions of the voters of that jurisdiction?
Why will the government not provide the data that already exists to those jurisdictions?