Madam Speaker, the question that should be asked of the Canadian Police Association is: “If you were in charge of this money how would you best spend it? Would you rather have more colleagues on the street helping you enforce a licensing system?”
The Canadian Police Association has not seen a cost benefit analysis either. If it were to see that, if it were in charge of the funds and if it had to make the decision on the best way to target the root cause of violence and crime in our society, what would it then say?
That is not the question it is answering. I will tell the member right now that it is just the people with whom he has been talking. If he were to talk with the police in the street he would get a much different answer. I have been talking with the police in Regina and I have been given a very different answer.