Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the justice minister for responding to the two recent slayings in Ottawa and Toronto by calling for tougher laws for violent young offenders.
It has been far too long in coming but people back home in northern B.C. are gravely concerned over other statements by the minister. He has been quoted as saying that he came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.
This is a sobering thought for millions of responsible gun owners in Canada. Why is the focus on disarming citizens because criminals continuously misuse guns?
While people in Ottawa and Toronto mourn the loss of these latest victims, one of our elderly was murdered in Val Belair in yet another senseless home invasion.
Only the criminals would have guns in the minister's city of the future and they would not have to guess, they would know that Canadians would be defenceless in their homes.