Madam Speaker, I think the point this hon. member is missing is the fact that the government put out numbers for the gun registration program; and it is not gun control as he referred to, because quite frankly I think we could have looked for a much more effective means of gun control than this registration would ever have accomplished. How could it go from $2 million to administer this program, which is what the government said it would cost, to now over $1 billion and rising? We still do not even know what the final amounts are.
Every day on this side of the House when we stood to ask the government how much it would cost to maintain this registry and how much would it cost to complete it, we never got an answer. The government does not know the answer and that is why this number continues to grow.
Quite frankly, the money that was spent on this registry would have gone to a much better use for control if we had looked at policing our streets more, beefing up our border security when it comes to the flow of illegal guns, and all these different angles that should have been explored rather than this registry, which has just been a boondoggle.