Thank you, Chair.
I thank the officials for coming today on this important bill. It's an interesting bill that some of the opposition members obviously don't agree with. However, there are some really good measures in this bill and, quite frankly, I've had the opportunity to have some input from the minister and officials on some of the things that I believe are really necessary. One of those, for me, is to have a safety training course. As a member of Parliament, and previously, I actually took that safety training course. It's very valuable.
Technically I could have challenged that course because I was a firearms owner; I was in the military. But I believe that this course has some very important aspects to it. I'm wondering if I could get the officials to comment on it and why they see it as being such an opportunity to make sure that Canadians are safe when using firearms.