Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here.
Dr. Ahmed, I think I heard you say you have to leave at 5:25, so I'm going to start with you.
I want to thank you, first of all, for your advocacy. I know you've come under extensive attack, you and the other doctors, from the Canadian gun lobby. It's been horrific what you've experienced because you've advocated public health measures. I know doctors looked at the burden of injury from car accidents and advocated seat belts, looked at smoking and advocated smoking laws, and the burden of injury from firearms is quite high. You mentioned suicide. We know that in terms of gender-based violence, women who live in a home with a firearm are more likely to be coercively controlled.
I had an extensive conversation with Dr. Alan Drummond about the red flag laws, and I know you mentioned that you're supportive of what is in the bill. One of the issues that Dr. Drummond explained to me is that the red flag falls under numerous jurisdictions, including provincial, and also your physicians and surgeons society. If there's an obvious, immediate danger, the physician is able to call the police or hold somebody in the hospital, but if there's a suspicion that there could be a danger either to themselves or others, there's no mandatory reporting, and that actually does not fall within the federal legislative framework. Is that correct?