Mr. Speaker, I have a couple of brief questions for the hon. member.
I have watched the estimate of the cost of this firearms control effort rise from an estimated $85 million to what it is now being estimated at, which is $133.9 million just for this year alone. That estimate was made by the spokesman for the new firearms centre. It will be $133.9 million for this year alone and it has not even begun yet.
I wonder if the hon. member has had any indication from the government what the total cost is going to be? Or has he been able to conclude a cost himself?
My second question refers to the $32 million crime prevention initiative announced by the government, which a newspaper article cites as another $32 million down the drain. It says that the minister's crime prevention initiative is more of the same mollycoddling that has made a joke out of the Young Offenders Act. I wonder if the hon. member agrees with that comment which appeared the Toronto Sun .