I just want to make a kind of closing commentary.
A very prominent...I think he's a professor at Queen's University now, but he was a key adviser to Prime Minister Chrétien and I think he was a key adviser to Pierre Trudeau. I don't know whether, in his later years, he started to re-evaluate what he had been doing, but his basic commentary last week was that government is trying to do a whole lot of things in this society and isn't really doing a very good job in a whole lot of these areas. That was, of course, Tom Axworthy.
He zeroed in on the firearms registry, and I think a lot of the matters you've been raising underscore the sorts of issues he's been raising. I would say that your chapters 1 and 2 fit in very clearly with Mr. Axworthy's message that government is great at setting up bureaucracies and administrations and making announcements and throwing money at things, but in terms of actual results, some of these areas are real head-scratchers.
I just thank you for your reports on this matter. Without them, a lot of Canadians would not be understanding a lot of these failings that we have in government programs. And they have to understand. If we're going to spend all this money on programs, we'd better start getting some really clear results for what we're doing here.
Thank you, Madam Fraser.