Mr. Speaker, I spent 30 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 14 years as a uniformed officer in the rural areas and the other 16 years on proceeds of crime, which had to do with the drug business and with commercial crime.
Handguns have been registered for the last 50 years. I never saw one case that was solved, any of the murders that happened in regard to the drug business or otherwise, by registered handguns.
The gun registry, in my opinion and from my experience, will do nothing to reduce crime in any significant way, but $1 billion sure would have helped those heart attack victims in my riding.