Public Safety committee  Again, I have to be a little careful, because it's certainly a bit of a policy question. I can tell you that Bill C-21 codifies and cohesively brings together the overarching approach that the government and all members of the public safety portfolio have been using for a number of years now, starting with the initiative to address guns and gangs violence, and that is to take a multipronged approach.

Public Safety committee  That's a good point. Again, as the minister indicated, a lot has been done, but a lot more needs to be done. I think the simple way to answer the question—and I'll expand from there—is that it really is about layering our approaches and not fooling ourselves into thinking that perhaps there is, if I can borrow the expression, a magic bullet or a solution that can be pulled out of thin air.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and through you to the member and to the committee. I think the minister made it very clear that there will be a range of solutions that ultimately are going to get us to where we want to go in terms of abating and addressing the scourge of gun violence.