Mr. Speaker, that answer is irrelevant. I have to conclude that the minister does not know the answer.
Last week the Ontario Police Association said that the $1 billion that has been wasted on the gun registry would have been better invested in front line policing.
Today's newspaper reports that the minister's claimed drop in firearms deaths predated the gun registry by a decade. Also, the 20-year-old gun licensing system that was supposedly producing these results cost less than half of the present system to operate.
How much will it cost to register all the guns and--