Thank you.
Ms. Irons, thank you for being here today. First of all, please accept our condolences on the loss of your daughter in this horrific act. It takes strength for you to be here. It takes strength to be part of the political process, and I applaud you for that. While we may not always agree, I always think it's important for victims of crime to have a voice and be heard in the political process.
I'd like to ask you about efforts to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals like the one who took your daughter's life.
While this bill allows initial background checks to expand their search to the life of the applicant for licence, it does nothing to really enhance the continuous eligibility screening or ban the possession of firearms from those convicted of serious personal injury offences, drug-related offences as in your case, or gang-related offences or those who have been detained under any provincial mental health legislation. Would you support measures, as I asked previously of other witnesses, to indicate those sorts of requirement in this legislation?