The bottom line in the city of Toronto is that the gun buyback program would not have any impact on the violence we're seeing. The violence that we're seeing in relation to firearm offences is, essentially, exclusive to a small number of gang members, thugs, using illegal firearms. Most of the time, they come across the border. About 90% of the 700 illegal firearms we seized last year came across the border. Most of the time, it was people on bail or people prohibited from using a firearm.
I can say that in the city of Toronto, it's a very challenging thing when it comes to funding public safety. I'm sure if you were to ask the mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, or Chief Myron Demkiw of the Toronto Police Service how they could use even a fraction of the $750 million, we'd find a lot of better ways to spend that money to actually improve public safety in our great city.
