Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, perhaps I would like to start answering the question by going back a little bit. The position of this government has been that we were intervenors in a court case against this whole gun law. Since that time we have taken the position that it is a federal responsibility and that the federal government would be responsible for implementing and the whole issue of provisions to the legislation, which is a federal legislation. This is typical of the federal government, of introducing the legislation and backing away from it and leaving the jurisdictions, like the provinces and territories, to pick up that legislation.

The current position is that we still say that it is a federal responsibility. Like the Premier said the other day, it is a very costly operation to do this and we don't have anything in our budgets to take up that slack.

If the honourable Member is asking if we are going to take this on, then we have to look at it because it is a huge cost. Certainly our citizens are affected with this, and we certainly would approach the federal government to see how and what they are going to do about this issue. If they are not going to do it, then we have to look at how we can do it ourselves, but we certainly have to get some sort of funding from the federal government to do this. Thank you.