Madam Speaker, I want to respond to the statement that the data is equivalent to the registry. That is not so at all.
The registry is a process in a system for ensuring that there is a record of guns. It is a requirement. It is a regulation. It is an understanding. It is a process for putting that understanding in place that the government will actually track these weapons that are used in so many tragedies of suicide and domestic violence.
There is data collected, but the registry is actually an information technology system. It is a system for tracking, registering and providing information. That is what the registry is about.
The government has gone beyond the ideological elimination of something that the police, citizens, women and victims' spokespeople say is an important tool for saving lives and protecting people. It has gone well beyond that with the elimination of the data.
Why is the government going beyond ideology and slapping the faces of those who might want to—