Yes. I believe the cost would be huge to the Canadian taxpayers.
I have a report, 10 years old, from the Department of Labor in the U.S. It states the cost for the oversight of the reporting that was required in the U.S. I believe the reporting that will be required in Canada will be substantially more than that in the U.S., but 10 years ago it cost the U.S. government $28 million and took 300 full-time workers to oversee the compliance. That was just to oversee the compliance of the workers in the United States.
There were 13.4 million U.S. union workers for that $28 million. The Canadian Labour Congress represents 4.2 million Canadian unionized workers, which is about one-third of that. If you were to take one-third of the amount found in that 10-year-old report, which showed $28 million, and add inflation into it, that might be part of the cost. The other cost would be the set-up of the programs, the infrastructure to do it; that would be a huge cost.
I think Canadian taxpayers would like to know how much it would cost. I think it would cost more than the gun registry to set up.