Mr. Speaker, our government has taken action to tackle criminals who use illegal handguns. Before that, however, the Liberals wasted $2 billion on an ineffective long gun registry that only served to criminalize law-abiding farmers and hunters.
Opposition members know that the long gun registry does not work and it is an unwanted intrusion into the lives of law-abiding citizens. A prominent politician once said:
I want to be in a party that respects the right of legitimate gun owners - it's an issue of freedom.
Who said that? It was the leader of the Liberal Party.
Let us get behind his call for freedom and abolish the ineffective long gun registry.