Hon. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu: Honourable senators, last Monday, La Presse informed us of the recent seizure of a record amount of drugs, cell phones and homemade weapons at the Cowansville Institution, valued at $700,000 over three months. We are talking about $2 million for 2023.

In light of this information, it is obvious that the safety and rehabilitation of inmates are not a priority for your government. Why does the government plan to spend a billion dollars to buy back guns from law-abiding hunters under Bill C-21 when it has invested very little in security and the control of illegal weapons in prisons?