Mr. Speaker, the member should not take my word for it. He should take the word of the experts who testified at committee. They did not believe that it had.
I would also like to talk about what happens here with property rights. A former RCMP officer stated:
Many Saskatchewan residents have been charged with a criminal offence simply because they forgot to renew their licence. As a former police officer, I cannot support convicting farmers who need to use a firearm for pest control, and I submit to you that some of these same people were veterans, who should not have their freedom, paid for in blood, vanish with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen.
Unfortunately for the member, it was his party that did this to people such as--