I would absolutely agree with your statement. That's why we have recently been given money in the last budget to increase our tracing capabilities. Right now, like I said, it's about 3,200, but with the new funding we will be able to triple our ability to trace firearms. Then we can make some evidence-based decisions, as you pointed out at the beginning, on the provenance of guns and where they come from. If we come to a point where it comes from a certain area, we can deal with that very succinctly.
It is not mandatory to have guns traced, but in the RCMP we are in the midst of developing policy to make it mandatory so that any gun seized will be traced. Of course, we will have to work with CACP as well to ensure that we can share those policies with other police agencies, because the more evidence we have on those statistics and looking at the trends, the better we are able to tackle the problem.