Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government's gun confiscation scheme has been a failure from the start. Its Cape Breton pilot reportedly collected just 22 guns, yet the government continues to hold back the official results. It is likely because this dismal result is true. Now the Liberals want to roll this broken program out nationally, including in southern Alberta.
To make things even worse, the police chief overseeing the pilot, the brother-in-law of a Liberal MP, has suddenly announced his retirement just as scrutiny intensifies. Meanwhile, the other member from Cape Breton shrugged off the failures, claiming he has not heard anything and people are not talking about it. Maybe the member should pay more attention to the concerns of his residents instead of breaking the Elections Act. Even the minister admitted, in leaked audio, that the program did not work.
This wasteful $750-million Liberal vanity project will not stop violent crime. The Liberals should scrap this program.