Thank you very much for the invitation. I will use English just to be quicker.
I have been studying firearms culture, legislation and technology for many years. I'm here to talk about ghost guns—firearms that are not identified by a serial number. They are a growing public security issue. They have been found everywhere in North America, but here in Quebec in March 2021, a young man was arrested at the border with 248 ghost guns that were Glock 17 replicas. They are coming here through the border or they are made here.
I will propose a few ideas to help curb this growing threat to Canadian public security. One of the main ideas I will defend is to broaden the definition of what is a firearm, because at the moment, essentially, serial numbers are on one part of the firearm—the receiver—so people can either print or make a receiver from polymer or metal and then order the parts from the United States where it's legal to produce such parts. In American law, they are not considered weapons, so one barrel bought online is not considered a weapon. A slide is not considered a weapon either. If somebody buys it, there is no verification, so they are quite easy to get and perhaps even to get here. That's what I will talk about.