Thank you for that.
Just to follow up, all those criteria you mentioned—and I am not an expert in firearms—were the exact same, the calibre, the length, everything. One said “plastic” on it and one had “wood”, but I'll leave it there. When you come up, we'll look into that and we'll get that answered ourselves. We can look into that.
I do have another question. Over this study we have heard some great witnesses and some heartbreaking testimony.
One of the people we heard from was Dr. Caillin Langmann. He is an accomplished academic and physician who has written three different peer-reviewed journal articles. All of his articles employ different statistical models and all of them analyze the relationship between firearm legislation and regulations and homicides and suicides.
All of them have come back with the same conclusion, that firearm legislation—which includes buybacks and bans—does not lower overall homicide and suicide rates. Instead, focusing on mental health issues, drug abuse, socioeconomic factors and other systematic factors reduce homicide rates and suicide rates.
Minister, could you tell me then what is different between Dr. Langmann and perhaps you and your government and procedures in going about this with the buybacks and banning of firearms?