Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her nuanced, intelligent and well-informed speech.
The NDP supports the Liberal government's plan to ban and remove from circulation military-style assault weapons, the sole purpose of which is to kill a lot of human beings. We will all be much safer once these machine guns and submachine guns no longer exist.
What does my colleague think of the half-baked voluntary buyback program that the Liberal government is proposing?
I find it really hard to understand the government's argument that it will ban the use of these weapons. People will not be able to use these weapons, up until the day that they do use them, at a school, a mosque or a church.
What does this mean for our safety in the medium and long term?