Well, I think it was brought up earlier in the other committee that handguns have been registered since 1934 in Canada. Yet how many crimes, how many murders, are being committed every year in the city of Toronto with handguns? Is the registration system working? Is it stopping crimes with handguns from taking place? I would have to say probably not.
I would say that I hadn't given it much thought until your question. But to answer the question you originally put to me, I would have to say that removing the registration of handguns probably wouldn't really make much difference, as Mr. Kuntz had said, because the strict registration part appears to not be working either.