Mr. Speaker, Taylor and Melody from my riding are national champion sports shooters who compete internationally. They are supposed to represent team Canada on the world stage in Czechia. They put years of hard work into training and competing, but the latest Liberal-NDP gun grab has put their training and competition in jeopardy.
The Liberals are weak on crime, yet sports shooters, hunters, farmers and first nations people across Canada are punished for this incompetence. After nine years, gun crime has skyrocketed 116% across Canada. The weak Prime Minister's catch-and-release bail policy lets repeat violent offenders out on the street.
Instead of this ridiculous gun grab, the Liberal-NDP government needs to step back so that a common-sense Conservative government can restore law and order, secure the border and ensure repeat offenders get jail, not bail. We will respect the traditions and livelihoods of our hunters, farmers, first nations people and sports shooters and bring home safe communities once again.