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Public Safety committee  Mr. Motz, I don't normally respond to rumours. What we are—

Public Safety committee  If I may—

Public Safety committee  We are looking at all the measures that we believe could help keep Canadians safe, and we are examining the right way to deal with those measures.

Public Safety committee  I have a plan to examine every way in which we can keep Canadians safe.

Public Safety committee  I also want to be very clear. The mandate I was given by the government was to examine every measure that could keep people safe with a very important specific caveat and that was an acknowledgement and a recognition that the overwhelming majority of firearm owners in this countr

Public Safety committee  I'm not aware of funding of this magnitude previously. I've been involved in a different capacity in dealing with guns and gangs issues. Generally our relationship was with only the provincial government. There was actually some funding made available in 2008 for what was called

Public Safety committee  Public Safety and our government last year brought forward a significant investment in guns and gangs initiatives, and there was also recognition and acknowledgement, after we talked with the provinces and municipal and indigenous police services, that there was important work th

Public Safety committee  Those operational decisions regarding how to allocate their resources and use these new resources are really the responsibility of police services and their leaders under the direction of their boards and their municipalities, and they are made very much in collaboration with the

Public Safety committee  We've had a number of discussions. As I said, I've travelled across the country, Mr. Motz.

Public Safety committee  They are firearms that were designed for a military purpose, firearms that—

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry you were offended, but I was thinking about—

Public Safety committee  I was thinking about the firearm that was used to kill three Mounties in Moncton. That was a firearm that was designed for military use. It was originally created and used by the military. It was a weapon that was used by that individual to hunt three police officers.

Public Safety committee  I believe it was an M14. I was also thinking about the weapons that were used to kill the two officers in Fredericton and two private citizens. I was also thinking about the weapon that was used to kill 14 women at École Polytechnique—

Public Safety committee  —and the weapon that was used to kill worshippers in the mosque in Quebec. These were all weapons that were not designed as hunting weapons. They were designed for soldiers, soldiers who—