Mr. Speaker, I have been holding my fire today on this issue but I would like to put a bit of a lie to some of the comments that have been made in the House today.
We are talking about confiscation and discouraging gun owners and yet the Reform Party by its very arguments has demonstrated that is not what has happened because it has pointed out that handguns have been regulated now for 60 years and has not seen any of that happening out of the registration of handguns.
To the member who just spoke, I am not very good at predicting the future. We have to see the results sometimes. I do know that I was very impressed in this debate by an international research paper that was done by the International Police Association a few years ago demonstrating very clearly that the stronger the gun legislation is in a country, the lower the rate of violent crimes and deaths as a result.
I wonder if the member is aware of that report. If he is aware of it, has he chosen to totally ignore the results of that report which show a very clear correlation between strong gun control legislation and less violent crime? That is what I want to see for this country.