Mr. Speaker, as I said to an African friend of mine—from Mali, in fact—do not cry over spilled milk.
Two billion dollars was spent to create this registry. Now it is working, or at least it could be if the government did not take every opportunity to undermine it. For five years, this government has done everything possible to keep the gun registry from being efficient and useful. It is like a car owner who refuses to do an oil change or any maintenance and drives around with a flat.
How can my colleague have been complicit in this all along and now justify the destruction of this registry?