Thank you to all the witnesses, and I apologize for that. Sometimes we need a quick minute to deal with some of the committee business that needs to be dealt with.
I grew up in an urban area and had no exposure to hunters, fishers, or guns until I moved to a rural community as a young married woman where I became much more familiar. One of the first things I witnessed was one of the farmers shooting a cougar that was stalking young children. Certainly there's no question it saved the lives of those young children. My understanding of the possession and acquisition licences and the process became much more nuanced than when I had my urban upbringing.
We all want the same thing. We all want gang violence to diminish. We want people off the streets who shouldn't have guns. I always have concerns that sometimes we just increase the red tape on the people like this gentleman I talked about who had a gun as a tool. When we do that, we create additional red tape and work for him. We don't do anything to solve the issue that we truly all want to solve.
Perhaps I'll start with Mr. Benabdallah. I can just imagine the tragedy and the trauma that your community has gone through and how raw the feelings are. Are you convinced that this bill is going to do what it's intended to do, which is to take guns out of the hands of dangerous offenders and individuals?