They're making a mistake on this particular point, Mr. Moore. It didn't introduce anything new to Canadian law.
If I may finish my answer, of course, I'm concerned about a statistical increase in crimes. We'll get a better picture when Statistics Canada and other statistics-gathering organisms give us those statistics.
We've come through a pandemic. We've come through economic uncertainty. We're in the middle of a mental health crisis, in part brought on by the pandemic. This isn't completely unexpected. What we have to do, as legislators, is react to that. Bill C-48 is part of the reaction to that with respect to repeat violent offenders with weapons.
As I said in my opening remarks, we've worked hard with police authorities and with provinces. There is widespread support for the bill across Canada, with the NDP in British Columbia, the Conservative government in Ontario and other governments across—