This is debate only, with no questions. I'm putting it out to my Liberal colleagues to really reflect upon the purpose of this particular section and the type of criminal it's capturing. It is not capturing the indigenous first-time offender or the racialized Black Canadian offender. It's not targeting the low-risk offender. These are offenders who are knowingly engaged in a commercial enterprise to import and export weapons within our borders and internationally.
Please reflect upon the countless stories we have shared as politicians over the last several months, what we are reading in the papers, what we are seeing on the television about the floodgates being open and about the importing and illegal gun smuggling that's happening at our porous borders.
To my colleague Rob Moore's point, now we have drones that are circumventing our lawful borders to ensure that the commercial exchange of weapons continues.
We have to draw a hard line in the sand as parliamentarians and look at the type of criminal we are trying to capture here. We need to send a denunciatory message to these seasoned criminals that if they continue to do this, they will expect to go to jail—no ifs, no ands, no buts about it. This isn't a situation where they need to get a break. They have chosen an illegal enterprise and a way of life that is so opposite to what your government has been preaching to Canadians with the introduction of BillC-5.
Please give that some consideration.