I think that there is room for different ways of doing things in Canada; we can't all think the same way. We share a large array of common values across Canada. We may have different ways of doing things. As for the gun registry, there seems to be a considerable difference in attitudes and perceptions.
The lady was saying earlier that people are against the gun registry in the regions. I am from the Beauce, which is a region. I can tell you that there is some reluctance. A lot of people do not like criminalization and that is one of the factors. I'm not saying that there are no irritants. I agree with Chief Torigian when he says that we have to sit down and discuss things.
How can we eliminate the irritants without throwing out the baby with the bath water? We want to keep the baby. We think there are advantages to keeping it. We acknowledge that there are things that irritate hunters and sport shooters. We admit that. Let's respect that and find imaginative solutions. Let's try to eliminate as many irritants as possible. However let's keep the main item so as to reduce—and we have seen this to be the case—the number of suicides, domestic violence incidents, and other such things.
This has been done with motor vehicles. It has been done successfully with motor vehicles. If you ask me who this has saved, I could not answer, but I know that in less than 30 years we have gone from 2,200 deaths a year to 500.
I think that we have seen similar results in the case of firearms.