Dane Lloyd

Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise and speak to this legislation that I brought forward. I want to start by thanking the McCann family, my colleagues of the House and all the supporters of the legislation and the victims' families. This has been a nine-year journey for me. I was first inspired to bring forward the legislation before I was elected. I was inspired by the model put forward in [more]

Madam Speaker, it was a true pleasure working with my colleague on the public safety committee. I want to talk about one particular area where we worked together to improve the legislation. Often, we have seen, when passing new or novel legislation that would give the government new powers, we put in review clauses to ensure that, after a specified period of time, usually five years, we could [more]

I'm sorry. The Mass Casualty Commission made recommendations, but it didn't provide any academic analysis on whether the gun confiscation policy would reduce crime. In fact, I think there are many questions about why numerous reports were made that the killer in that case had illegal firearms—he did not have a firearms licence—and nothing was done about it. I think that's a question that many [more]

Thank you. I'm going to start with Ms. Geddes. I asked the minister if you had any studies or internal analysis on whether the gun confiscation plan, which will cost nearly $1 billion, will actually reduce crime. Can you tell this committee if you have any documentation of this kind that you can share?

Thank you, Minister. A few years ago, we had your predecessor Minister Mendicino here. I asked him if your government had conducted any studies to show that this firearm confiscation program would do anything to reduce crime in this country. At the time, they didn't have any studies. The government hadn't produced any papers or research to show that this would do anything to reduce crime. In [more]

Minister, you're saying that RCMP members.... We just heard an Auditor General report say that we're short 3,400 members. We're dealing with a wave of violent crime across this country. Are you saying that your plan is, over the spring and summer, to deploy RCMP officers to go door to door to firearms owners and seize their firearms?

Do you anticipate that those funds will increase beyond the departmental report?

After that amnesty expires, what's your government's plan for firearms owners who might still be in possession of these firearms?

Is there anything other than the Mass Casualty Commission report?

That's a very different jurisdiction, Minister. It's interesting that the PBO suggested that you're going to spend over $700 million on this gun confiscation. We see in your departmental reports that you're cutting $132 million from Correctional Service Canada. I've been told that most of that money is for the reintegration and rehabilitation of criminals. Why are we spending nearly $1 billion [more]

What about the people who haven't declared?

Minister, I just find it very concerning that we're going to be sending police officers door to door, because, frankly, many police forces across the country are refusing to participate in your program. I think they have very good reasons not to want to participate in this program. Are you not concerned at all, Minister, about people who are no longer serving as RCMP officers going door to door?