Mr. Calkins, it won't surprise you that I don't share your view that our agenda goes against law-abiding sportspersons or firearms owners. We certainly share the concern that you articulated that's shared by many Canadians around recent incidents involving violent crime.
Some of these extortion circumstances that we've witnessed in recent months.... If I stick to the news conference of the commissioner of the RCMP on Thanksgiving Monday, some of this rise in extortion in the South Asian community, for example.... The mayor of Edmonton has talked to me about it and the mayor of Brampton—perhaps you're familiar with Patrick Brown, who was a colleague of ours here in the House of Commons—has talked to me about this.
A lot of good work is being done by our law enforcement authorities. They rely on partnerships with provinces and territories and municipal police forces. This work is done collaboratively. I have a great deal of confidence in that work, but I don't minimize the concern of Canadians.
In my conversations with the Ontario Solicitor General, we try and figure out ways that we can work better together to bring down those very statistics that you spoke about.