Thank you very much, Chair.
I appreciate our colleague from the NDP. We're going to give him a referee jersey to be the mediator in this discussion. We very much appreciate his suggestions.
I am also appreciative of the Conservative Party members saying they are willing to study femicides, mental health and suicides. I will hold your feet to the fire on that one and take you at your word that you are interested in studying those issues. They are incredibly important.
I recall speaking to a women's shelter from Lethbridge, Alberta, who said that every single woman who came into that shelter was there because of a firearm in the home. Women in Canada should not be afraid and should not be dying because of firearms. We need to be taking that seriously and studying it, so I will take you at your word that you are interested in studying that issue at a later date.
The first and the fourth additions I put forward would be important to include. While I can't remember who said that the language was not strong enough, Mr. Van Popta will remember we spent hours coming up with wording on gangs. In the spirit of trying not to debate that, I used the wording that we decided on with Mr. Kurek and Mr. Sikand at the time, and all of us were involved.
Mr. MacGregor's compromise of including (i) and (iv) and dropping the middle two would be agreeable. Perhaps, Chair, I could suggest that maybe we vote on each of the four separately, or if Mr. MacGregor wants to amend my amendment to remove those two middle ones, that would be fine with me as well.