Edited Hansard • Number 181
Thursday, May 2, 2002
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton--Melville, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, the justice minister is running a gun registry that is fraught with errors. Get this. He registers a primitive muzzle-loading rifle as a machine gun and a revolver as a machine gun.
The RCMP has provided reports documenting hundreds of thousands of errors in the registry.
How can a garbage collection system like the minister is running be of any benefit to the police?
Mr. Paul Harold Macklin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, they just do not get it. This program is a public health and safety program. It is designed to protect the public and it is doing a marvellous job.
A recent poll suggested that it is supported by 76% of the population and it is supported for a good reason.