Mr. Speaker, more words. I know how the vote went last night and so do all Canadians.
This minister is willing to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars on a registry that frontline police officers and criminologists say will have little or no impact to reduce crime, but he is not willing to make criminals pay for their actions by financial compensation.
Why does the government follow the wishes of special interests that want to punish law-abiding firearm owners yet will not listen to grassroots Canadians when they demand compensation to victims of crime? All they can do now is sue.