Mr. Speaker, with respect to registration the minister will know about project gun runner. Of the 17 guns purchased on the black market, only one came from a break-in. The rest were smuggled into Canada.
I have even heard it said that the minister said that 70 per cent of all criminal acts involving guns are committed with smuggled, illegal firearms.
I ask the minister again, why is he prepared to commit millions of dollars to a bogus registration program that would just harass law-abiding gun owners?