Mr. Speaker, a part of this discussion is about truth and transparency. They are both concepts which I think are extremely important for the House. I know my colleague likely did not mean it, but I really thought he said that the gun registry had cost $1 billion. I know he would not want to leave that in the minds of people watching this.
Is it not true that the billion dollars to which he has referred, and to which the Auditor General has referred, is the amount of money that will be spent by 2005, which is in the first 10 years of the gun control program. Roughly one-third of it is to be spent for screening. Roughly one-third of it is being spent for licensing, training and things of that type. Roughly one-third of it is being spent on the registry which he mentioned?
Like him, I deplore the money that was wasted on new software and things like that for the registry. However, before he goes into the rant about the waste, which I do accept in that program, would he not agree with me that is the billion dollars to which he was referring, yes or no?