I want to talk about this a bit, because I do really respect the fact. I go through the applications. I've applied for my possession and acquisition licence. I've done all these things too. My problem is that we all want to get rid of violence against women, and we saw on the shoulders of this the government come out with the order in council, which to me...whatever.
I'm looking at some of the statistics from just about 10 years ago, and 4% of those guns in domestic violence were registered. Only 24% of those people had a possession and acquisition licence. My problem is that the government is trying to fix something where this stuff is already illegal. We're talking about the bad people who are using illegal weapons. We're talking about a person who would impact their family by killing their own family member with a gun. We are talking about a mental health issue here for sure.
I wonder why we're putting so much money into a buyback where illegal people and bad people are still going to be doing these things, and why we're not taking that money and putting more into resources for violence against women and for CBSA, as well as mental health.
Why are we not doing that instead? Why are we not going directly to the core and are just assuming this is going to fix it?