Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a question for you, Chief Bray.
As you know, in May 2020, the government issued an order in council prohibiting 1,500 military-type assault firearms. At the same time, it promised a buyback program.
According to what I have heard in the corridors of Parliament, if the government is taking so long to implement a buyback program, it's because it has no idea how to go about it and what agency to assign the task to.
I think I heard you say during your opening speech that this type of responsibility should not be given to the police. Yet, in the collective imagination, that is the impression people who own this type of firearm have: the police will break down their door and come and get their firearms, which, from one day to the next, will have become illegal. However, the government has not revealed its intentions. We don't know whether responsibility for such a program will fall on the police or another agency.
Can you clarify your statements on this subject and tell us what you would do in the government's shoes?