Gary Anandasangaree

It’s time to choose. It’s a time to choose between victims of crime who are demanding that we, as parliamentarians, act to protect them.

When Parliament makes law, there’s time for debate and there’s time for choosing.

The government can't cherry pick which portions of the legislation to implement.

The government is more open now to shortening the maximum time frame of one year.

While collection and compensation for individuals are underway, I would encourage firearm owners to book their appointments as soon as they get their notification.

We’re quite confident of our legal position on this, but at the same time we want to respect the process.

We believe in our legal system, we believe in the rule of law, and what we don’t want to do is pre-empt that decision.

This is both the respectful thing to do to those who have already enrolled, and I believe that if individuals do want to buy something else, they’re able to do so, but with the caveat that the Supreme Court will decide on the overall…

In both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal we were quite successful in defending our position.

The one matter that we didn’t anticipate at that time was the Supreme Court challenge.

While you know we would have preferred to have the amnesty in place for October … we have to respect the Supreme Court and their ability as the final arbiter of Canadian law to weigh in, and that’s what we’re doing today.

When there is a Supreme Court hearing on a matter that is quite relevant to the program, I think it’s incumbent upon lawmakers to ensure that we respect that process.

We talked to law enforcement, we talked about the practicalities of shortening it — it does impede their ability to do an effective investigation, so one year is something that I believe we will hold steady on.

We talked to law enforcement, we talked about the practicalities of shortening it — it does impede their ability to do an effective investigation, so one year is something that I believe we will hold steady on.

It goes together and we’re not prepared to split that bill.

This is something that needs to happen.