Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am going to turn first to the RCMP representative, although I will tell you right away that I really liked your explanations about the progressive use of force, the police force principle of intervention, before using firearms.
I want to ask you a specific question. On page 427 of the estimates—I thought that when I was given this PDF version, I had the same pagination as you, but let’s say it’s the first page of point 25—, there is mention of the Canadian Firearms Centre and operating expenditures for registration activities and functions. We see that last year you asked for $14.550 million and that next year you’re asking for $14.654 million.
I know, Mr. Martin, that we have to get rid of long gun registration, and therefore you’re not including expenses for long gun registration. So, if you register fewer arms and you expect to register even fewer, why are you asking for $104,000 more to register firearms?