Mr. Speaker, I have 11 petitions. You will be pleased to know that nine of them are identical in form and content. These nine petitions originate from about a dozen small Saskatchewan communities with a few signatures also from northern and eastern Alberta.
The petitioners wish to draw the attention of this House to the uselessness of the proposed new gun regulations of Bill C-68. They draw to our attention the fact that the search and seizure provisions and other infringements on civil liberties included in Bill C-68 are an affront to law-abiding Canadians. They therefore pray and call upon parliament to repeal Bill C-68 and all associated regulations with respect to firearms or ammunition and to pass new legislation designed to severely penalize the criminal use of any weapon.
On those nine petitions, there are 1,815 signatures which brings the total that I have presented in the last few weeks on that particular subject to more than 3,000.