Thank you for your question.
I was going to talk about that. You're right in saying that the government should create a way of classifying weapons that would include not only those that are currently available, but also new models that will enter the marketplace. The industry always has all kinds of workarounds, and we need an instrument that would make it possible to classify everything.
I'm not saying that everything needs to be banned. I'm just saying that once it's possible to classify weapons in a certain way, exceptions could be made or they could be considered from different standpoints, such as whether they are restricted or non-restricted, depending on the definition. As Professor Cukier was saying earlier, it would then be possible to see whether certain weapons would be exempt from a specific status, even though they might fall into a particular class. When that happens, it would be possible to decide. But first, weapons have to be classified.
The second thing is the extremely important problem that you put your finger on: the proliferation of lists like the RCMP list and the Criminal Code list. There could be others. This only creates confusion about the act and also opens the door to measures like the one taken by Mr. Harper's government. I believe that in 2015, after seeing the RCMP list, the government more or less unilaterally removed weapons models produced by Swiss Army or SIG SAUER, I think. I can't remember which. In short, he put them back in the non-restricted weapons class.
The proliferation of lists opens the door to this kind of manipulation. If there has to be a list, there should be only one for everyone. That would eliminate ambiguity and confusion.