Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I want to correct something that Mr. Rathgeber said about maintaining the firearms registry. A few weeks ago, Minister Toews appeared before the committee. In response to a question about the cost of the firearms registry, he gave the same answer as Mr. Rathgeber, in others words, that it cost billions of dollars. He knows full well that the cost of the registry today is no more than a few million dollars. Now that everything is in place, it no longer costs what it once did to save the lives that can be saved. So when that government argument is trotted out, it does not do the registry justice in the end.
You mentioned a number of tools that the government does not take into account, tools that could be used to help victims. You mentioned centres that victims could go to on a regular basis. These centres are seriously lacking. You said there were several hundred in the U.S. That is part of your tool kit, just like the firearms registry, of course. Punishment is another one of those tools, as you said, as well as police access to IP addresses.
You also said that, according to what you had been told by victims, offender rehabilitation and prevention were important in terms of helping victims. Could you elaborate a little more on that?