Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll keep this tight.
Mr. Friedman, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Safety have said on numerous occasions that their banned firearms “were designed...to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time” and that they were designed for use by “soldiers to kill other soldiers”, amongst various things.
I just happen to have a copy of the Geneva Convention on conventional weapons, which Canada is a signatory to. It prohibits the employment of weapons for the purpose of causing “superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering”.
Mr. Friedman, are the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Safety misleading Canadians on these firearms for political purposes, or is Canada indeed in violation of the Geneva Convention?