Mr. Speaker, as I said, both in my question for the member for Oakville North—Burlington and in my presentation, when we look at legislation, sometimes we codify things that are already done. Background checks over a lifetime in many cases is already done but codifying that in law is important.
As I mentioned, on point of sale records, many folks in the policing community have called for this, under a warrant, and that is also an important thing.
I said something else in my speech which is important for the member to note. He mentioned gang violence. We absolutely agree with the Conservatives that more needs to be done to tackle this issue. These two things are not mutually exclusive. We call on the government to do more to tackle that. We would be proud to work with all parties to ensure we do more about that.
The measures in the bill would create greater certainty for things that currently already happen under the law but would give that greater certainty for police among others.