Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Justice said:
During the course of the last several months, I have been in continuous touch with senior officials and indeed with provincial counterparts, attorneys general and ministers of justice, exchanging views about the proposals that will be decided upon and announced this afternoon.
However today in a television interview he revealed that he had not spoken to some of the provincial justice ministers but hoped that he would get their support.
Given that the registration of firearms will have a significant impact upon the financial resources of the provinces and territories, why did the minister not get the support of provincial justice ministers before the fact, not after?