Mr. Speaker, I suppose I could add to the list, the list of condoms, voting privileges, gun registration and all of the associated costs. I could add the costs of the golf courses, the pool tables, the cable TV and I would be asking the government the very same that this member is asking me. Would it not be better to put that money into law enforcement, putting police on the street where they are going to do a lot more good than to put it into what this government is putting it into? That is the point that needs to be made over and over.
I worked on that gun registration issue a long time. I examined it very thoroughly and if we look at the hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted in setting up a huge bureaucracy that will not make our lives any safer we would be asking the question why is that money not going into hiring more police. I think this needs to be debated. I see the government unfortunately avoiding this debate.