If I may, I would like to make a digression to respond to Mr. Murphy's question on long guns, hunting weapons. First, the majority of police officers who were killed in Canada in the last 10 years were shot with long guns, including those who died in Mayerthorpe.
When people talk about long guns, you think of domestic violence or spousal violence. I can give you an example. At the end of 2006, a woman was the victim of spousal violence in Montreal. Pardon the expression, but he had "got her real good". The woman was brought to the hospital. The man did not have a criminal record, but she was afraid because she knew that her husband owned several hunting weapons. However, she did not know whether he had 2, 10 or 12 of them. The police officers and the investigators consulted the firearms registry: the man had 16 weapons registered to his name. They searched the premises and seized 16 weapons and 45,000 bullets. This was a domestic case.
After the Dawson College shooting, in the Montreal region, three cranks from different areas made threats. The gun registry was consulted and, in two of the three cases, the police were able to immediately seize firearms in the places where these individuals lived.
We're not talking about organized crime. These things happen in daily life. In Montreal, not all of the 1.3 million service calls received each year come as a result of weapons being fired. There have to be between 50,000 and 100,000 domestic violence cases a year. We're talking about things that happen in the daily lives of people and citizens.
Thank you.