The YWCA in Yellowknife facilitates emergency protection orders and we do about 90% of them for the whole territory. We work closely with the RCMP, who use the gun registry to identify what guns are in a location, so that they can't be sloughed off when they go to revoke them. They know what guns are there, and they can then look for those guns and say, “That's not all the guns you have. We show that you have other guns, or more guns, or whatever.”
They have been adamant with us about the value of the registry in domestic incidents. If I'm irrational.... You see so much violence in northern Canada, and I will do anything I can to try to reduce that, to try to reduce the impact on the lives of women, kids, elders, and men. So I'm not understanding how this is a battle of statistics when we register cars and we register births.