Yes, Mr. Speaker, I certainly have heard those very same things. I visit schools quite often. They ask me to speak on justice issues, particularly the Young Offenders Act. I ask most of them if they are fearful going downtown or going back and forth from school. The majority of them are quite frightened. They like to travel in groups as a safety factor. In some cases they are fearful in their own school because of the bullying.
There is a lot of fear out there. We need to concentrate on doing the right things to protect Canadians. After all, our most elemental duty as members of parliament is to provide legislation that protects people and their property.
We have a government over there that figures the best thing to do is to register property. Now the supreme court has come down with a ruling that what the government has done is legal. Because of the supreme court decision I am sure criminals are shaking in their boots. They are all going to run down and register their guns tomorrow morning. Of course they are not. They do not give a hoot about it.
The government comes down with legislation that simply goes after honest law-abiding people and ignore the criminals. That is another brilliant decision. It spends millions and millions, and it is going to be billions of dollars, to try to accomplish something with money that could have well been spent on real protection of people.