Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here today. We are very grateful to them.
I have a question for the representatives from Doctors for Protection from Guns. As you said, you have witnessed gun violence first-hand. Quite frankly, you see some rather traumatizing things. You are not necessarily obligated to advocate for better gun control, but you do and you are here. I thank you for that.
In a letter from last December, you spoke about disinformation and the tactics the gun lobby was using to claim that certain guns would be included in or excluded from the legislation and amendments. Upon closer examination, we see that this information is not true. Most of the guns that were described on social media as firearms that the government wanted to ban would not be affected. The posts were referring to a similar model or there was some other issue.
Certain tactics have even been used against you, Ms. Ahmed. I learned that, in 2019, you had close to 70 complaints filed against you by members of the Canadian Coalition of Firearms Rights.
I would like you to tell us about that experience.
Do you think that this kind of tactic hinders the debate that we are having and interferes with the passage of legislation for better gun control?