I thank you for your question. I think it gives me the opportunity to mention once again that the goal of this bill is to increase public safety. I gave you three measures that are embedded in the bill that are reinforcing public safety. This is my first goal as Minister of Public Safety.
If I can answer your question in this way, it is important to ensure that law-abiding citizens make sure they abide by the law. There are many provisions that make it illegal to modify a firearm. This is already in the Criminal Code. Anyone who has evil means can modify a firearm. This is illegal. If someone is doing that, this individual will face the full force of the law. In the meantime, this doesn't mean that those who are abiding by the law must be penalized as a result of other individuals who are contravening the law.
In more general terms, the firearm has to meet to specific criteria to be classified. If it is illegally modified, then this is out of the scope of the law and that's why we have this specification system and are able to fix it. This being said, I've always taken the advice of the RCMP into consideration, and did so in making this bill.