Really, we wouldn't have the time or the resources to get involved with that buyback program that's being proposed by the current government. Like I said earlier, we're busy trying to keep this community safe with the influx of guns being smuggled across the border. Like my colleague, Chief Skye, who is a hunter, I'm a hunter. We're legal gun owners. I see this time and time again, and I hear it from my friends who are hunters, especially in indigenous communities. That's a way of life for us. Why is the gun owner always the one being penalized? Penalize the bad guys smuggling them. The mandatory minimums for weapons trafficking have been revoked.
I know there's work being done now to enhance the border for fentanyl, but that can also include weapons smuggling, because, like I said earlier, with these gang members coming in from the GTA, we're getting guns coming in that are ghost guns. They're 3-D printed. We're getting guns with the serial numbers scratched off. Before, when we would do a search warrant at a drug house, we'd get a sawed-off shotgun someone used for squirrel hunting a few years prior. Now, it's handguns; it's high-powered automatic guns that are smuggled.
