Mr. Speaker, once again the member has not answered the question. He said he wants to take weapons out of the hands of people who commit crimes. The people who are registering these guns are law-abiding Canadian citizens. They are not committing crimes with these guns.
Why can the member not understand the question? It is put about as simply as we can possibly put it. The question is how will this expensive registry get weapons off the streets and make Canada safer.
This program originally was to cost $85 million or $87 million, whatever the magic number was that the justice minister of the day happened to invent. We now know that it is going to be at least double that number just for the registration program itself.
There is terminology. It is called GIGO, garbage in equals garbage out. It is a terminology of slang used in information systems. If you put in garbage, you get garbage out. If you go with an imperfect registration system such as proposed by this minister and by this government, there is no way the registration system will work.
Furthermore, in my constituency the RCMP has had to try to impose fees in order to cover its cost of doing the extra work caused by Bill C-68. These are realities and facts. We are talking about millions of dollars, much inconvenience. The question remains specifically can the member tell this House how we will have safer streets and fewer guns on the streets as a result of this very expensive multimillion dollar registration system?