moved for leave to introduce Bill C-278, an act to provide for the expiry of gun control legislation that has not proven effective within five years of coming into force.
Mr. Speaker, today I am reintroducing my firearms law sunset act. I would like to thank the member for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough for seconding the bill.
The Minister of Justice tabled 62 pages of firearms regulations last week and they suffer the same problem as the bill that authorized them. No one knows if this bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo and hundreds of millions of tax dollars will improve public safety, reduce the criminal use of firearms or save lives. Nor can anyone in this government tell law-abiding gun owners or taxpayers what it will do if it does not improve public safety.
The firearms law sunset act solves this uncertainty for gun owners and—