Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the parliamentary secretary once again used those terms, “military style” and “assault style”, without a clear definition of what those are. He claims that the firearms that the government has moved to ban are not used for hunting or sports shooting. However, in my riding, many people are seeing the guns that they do use for hunting and sports shooting on the Liberals' list of now illegal firearms. There is clearly a disconnect between his talking points and what is actually happening on the ground.
Also, I am surprised that the Liberals, who claim to want to make Canada safer, voted against a Conservative bill that would impose tougher sentences on those who are found in possession of an illegally acquired firearm, a smuggled firearm. If the government is so committed to combatting gun crime, why did its members vote against this common-sense, Conservative motion?