Mr. Speaker, I will certainly share with him my thoughts in that regard and he will be better off.
The reality is that legislation like Bill C-68 and its forerunners are step by step and incrementally discourage gun ownership in Canada today. That is what it amounts to.
It is the same as any other law passed in this place that make it more and more onerous on private citizens to own certain property. The more laws and the more difficult we make it for people to own something, obviously there will be less and less people who own it.
This legislation, as its forerunners, goes even further than that. The government can arbitrarily decide that certain makes, models and types of firearms are suddenly on the prohibited list. No one on that side has ever adequately explained how that does not constitute confiscation of private property. That is exactly what it is. At least the people in rural Canada and the people of Prince George—Peace River know that is exactly what it is.