Well, it's not about setting aside justice; it's about the fact that the police have a statutory mandate to protect the public.
I can tell you this, as I'm sure our police witnesses today can as well: The moment the words “firearms” or “firearm” or “gun” or “pistol” are uttered on a 9-1-1 call or complaint, it's not one police officer who is responding, but two, three, four, five and whoever is in the area, because police take those complaints extremely seriously. As I said, I'm an open-minded guy as a defence counsel—we occasionally are—and I'd love to see a shred of data that people are being ignored when they call the RCMP Canadian firearms program and report firearms public safety concerns or make those complaints to the police.
Once again, we're legislating this whole scheme. There will be new applications and forms and judges' time taken up when there is not an iota of evidence that there is any need that has to be met.