Again, I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what this community is into.
To be fair, I know that some of my colleagues across the way participate in this. One can look at the Conservative caucus that I am so proud to belong to. We have Mr. Norlock, whose private member's bill, for example, reserved the third Saturday in September as a hunting, trapping, and fishing heritage day. Our caucus has a deep-seated understanding of this community. It's unfortunate that many people want to pigeonhole the outdoors community using various terms like “gun lobby” and so on.
I happen to represent a very large, sprawling, beautiful rural constituency where firearm ownership is ubiquitous. When I think of the family get-togethers over meals of wild game, the community suppers with garden vegetables and so on, that's a way of life which I deeply cherish and which I became an MP to vigorously defend. It's truly unfortunate that some people choose to demonize that way of life and want to see many of these activities come to an end. I vow to stop that.