Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to my colleague's speech. He mentioned a couple of issues I found rather startling.
The member said he was shocked by the legislation to ban registration of long guns and that the whole thing is ill-conceived. I ask the member why was he shocked and why is it ill-conceived?
There were hundreds of hours of debate. Committees were struck and there were presentations by different people across Canada. It is not something that was done secretly. It has been out there for over a year.
I have one other comment. The Calgary Sun states:
So don't believe, even for a second, that police use the registry 17,000 times a day looking for guns.
That's fiction.
We know from our own research and from talking with police chiefs across Canada that police officers attend at domestic disputes figuring there are guns there and they follow their own procedures.