Mr. Speaker, the firearms registry was imposed on Canadians with the promise that it would cost only $2 million. The government was wrong, which is not surprising. This program has cost, to date, nearly 500 times more than the initial estimate.
Last fall, the Auditor General published a scathing report on the government's bad management of this program.
For the past three months, the Canadian Alliance has tried to get an honest answer from the minister. Can he tell us how much the implementation and maintenance of this program will cost?