Thank you very much, Glen.
These are very important questions, and I really appreciate your giving me an opportunity to speak to them.
First of all, I believe that financing and supporting an effective police response to deal with guns and gangs in our community is important. You didn't, but we do. We made that investment.
We also said that we were going to strengthen gun control in this country. By the way, if you want to quote various public opinion polls, Canadians overwhelmingly support strengthening gun control. We have taken some fairly significant steps to remove weapons from our society that have no place here.
We're going to do more, Glen. We're going to bring forward new legislation that will strengthen our response at the border, for example. That doesn't just mean new offences, new authorities and new penalties. It's new investments, $89 million, that we've invested and continue to invest in the RCMP and our border services officers to make them more effective in countering the firearms smuggling into this country. These are offences that you, on the committee a couple of years ago, referred to as paper crimes that shouldn't have a penalty. I disagree.
We're also going to make it more difficult for people to gain access to firearms through criminal diversion and theft. We're taking steps to strengthen our gun control in this country to make it more difficult for criminals to get access to guns. I believe that effective gun control is an important element—