Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The federal government's modest estimate of the cost of implementing this new legislation, as of a month ago, was $85 million. The projected costs concerned provinces and, in some cases, exceeded $200 million. It remains to be seen how much money the federal government will be budgeting to implement this bill. As I have said earlier today, they will be implementing different parts of this legislation at different times. So we are waiting on some word from the federal Justice department on how they plan to implement it and how much money they believe they should budget to implement this piece of legislation. As we have said from the beginning, we do not believe it would be very easy, if at all possible, to implement and enforce this legislation in a realistic manner. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 11-13(1): Cost Of Enacting Gun Control Legislation
In the Legislative Assembly on December 14th, 1995. See this statement in context.
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Question 11-13(1): Cost Of Enacting Gun Control Legislation
Item 6: Oral Questions
December 13th, 1995
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