Not to worry, Mr. Speaker, I was a school teacher for 30 years and have put up with this nonsense for a lot longer than this. The only thing is the children are a little older now and ought to know better; but they do not have any brains so it does not make any difference.
Let me make an exception. The gun registration under Bill C-68 is to cost $200 million. Let us say that is the case. We have not been told once how it will save a life. We asked the Liberals, lots of times, to please show us how it would save a life.
Let me make a second exception. Probably two of the biggest killers we have in the country are breast cancer and prostate cancer. If we had $200 million and it had to go to one or the other, how many Liberals would pick gun registration over cancer research? I will tell the House how many would pick gun registration: all of them because they listen to the dictators and they do what they are told to do.
The Liberals billed legislation that has almost a hundred orders in council, the old thing they used to put into legislation during wars and real serious activities to protect our land; throughout the War Measures Act there were orders in council. This legislation has in it nearly a hundred times where one person in the House, one individual on that frontline can decide whether or not a certain firearm should be confiscated.
That is the power that exists under the bill. That is the kind of power to which any normal Canadian taxpayer objects. That is the kind of power they have in all these countries that have failed a hundred times under dictatorial power. When will members on that side of the House wake up and smell the coffee? I heard a member over there a while ago saying “smell the coffee”.
Members on that side of the House are a bunch of sheep. They do what they are told because they believe strongly in the will of the party and not the will of the people. That is what they believe in.
Let me give an example. In a week or two they will be reading an article in the
Western Producer
written by Larry Fillo describing the absurdity of the bill. On July 10, 1998, Lorraine Dewetter was informed by two police officers of the death of her husband. Mr. Dewetter apparently died after a heart attack when his vehicle was stuck in a field. The RCMP, however, did more than just deliver the unfortunate news of Mr. Dewetter's passing. While in the Dewetter home informing his wife of his death the RCMP confiscated a .22 calibre rifle and a 12-guage pump action shotgun.
In the pickup that was stuck there was a .410 shotgun which a lot of farmers carry around with them. The RCMP seized a legal .410 shotgun from the pickup, but when they went to inform his wife that he had died in the field they confiscated all the guns in the house.
That is what comes about with this kind of legislation: search and seizure without any particular reason. It contains unreasonable search and seizure regulations. It is unreasonable to do that. It is as simple as that. It confiscates property. It did in this case. Members can read about it in the
Western Producer
in two weeks.