Mr. Speaker, the connection between universal registration, reduction in crime and increase in community safety is sufficiently obvious that today the initiative of this government was endorsed by the Canadian Medical Association.
May I say as well that if the hon. member does not find my explanation for the justification sufficiently persuasive, then perhaps he can ask the question of others who endorse it. Did I mention that they include the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association, the police services boards from Brandon, Manitoba; Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Nova Scotia; the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police; Sudbury Chief of Police; the Thunder Bay police-