Thank you, Chair.
Again, as has been echoed, thank you to all the witnesses for being here and sharing their life experiences.
I'm a PAL and an RPAL holder. As does Mr. Chang, I have over three decades in law enforcement. I come from a different perspective as well, but we all are after public safety. That's really what we're after here.
I appreciate your comments, Mr. Price, that we have to look at all the experiences collectively.
I look at the value for dollar. If the government wants to look at up to.... They haven't given us a number, but industry experts are saying it could cost $5 billion to confiscate what's already on the books.
Mr. Wilson, I want to go to you first. Your program is exceptional, and I would like you as a group to submit, if you can, a brief highlighting what your group is about and how you accomplish your tasks and the success rate you've had. I think that would be very important for our committee to have.
The government has sprayed around money on public safety and crime prevention for decades with successive governments. It has not always been successful.
Why is it that a program like yours can be successful and doesn't get the funding you need, and other programs, with maybe louder voices involved, get big money, but they do nothing? Why is there this disconnect?