Through you, Mr. Chair, to the member, good afternoon.
I'll provide some national data around that aspect. Clearly there is work happening with uniform crime reporting. As we've heard, the crime severity index around the use of firearms in the commission of criminal offences is increasing, but one of the investment pieces the RCMP is significantly focused on is firearms tracing. We've had a significant investment in a national approach, and we are working with all of our municipal and provincial agencies across the country. However, from our firearms tracing unit, when we look nationally, 69% of the firearms traced in Canada in 2021 were domestically sourced, so they were either diverted, lost, or stolen.