Thank you, Ms. Michaud.
To clarify again, I'm trying to emphasize the importance of gang violence in this study. Right now as it stands, paragraph (ii) says, “recognizing the involvement of gangs in firearms”, which I don't believe gives nearly enough emphasis on the serious issue of gang violence in Montreal and what's been happening. I think we take out “recognizing” and simply say, “the increasing involvement of gangs and firearms”. That would be the first part.
At the very end of point (ii), we would add “and causes of high recidivism rates”, because we know with gang violence that repeat offenders cause a lot of these shootings and the violent crime that we're seeing in our cities.
It's including a lot. We're now going to be looking at programs. I think that if we're going to be expanding it in the way Ms. Damoff is recommending, then we certainly must be looking at the rate of recidivism in Canada, because that is a part of the gang violence that we're seeing.
The aim of my subamendment is to focus attention on the problem, which is gang violence. It's perhaps not the most eloquent wording, but it's on the fly.
Thanks.