I'll take that as a no. Thank you, Minister.
Last month, in response to the Conservative announcement of the “stand on guard” policy, you tweeted, “This isn't the Wild West. It's Canada.”
Around the same time you tweeted out this tone-deaf statement, in Hamilton alone, more than 80 shots rang out at bars after they were closing, leaving three injured. In Toronto, a 19-year-old was shot and killed in a mall bathroom. Two 17-year-olds were charged. In Ottawa, a Jewish woman in her 70s was stabbed and sent to hospital just for being Jewish. In Calling Lake, Alberta, a man wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant was charged in a violent home invasion in which the homeowner was shot and killed.
If these and thousands of other crime stories happening around this country on a weekly basis aren't indicative of the Wild West, what would meet your definition, sir?