Sorry, this is just not a politically "sexy" issue for Justin and will not satiate his mouth breathing base.

Cigarettes and alcohol kill Canadians by the tens of thousands, but what we need, is more gun control legislation.  Yeah that's it.    

It matters not that there are greater statistical odds of getting struck by lightening then by getting shot by a legally owned firearm,  it matters not that there are dozens of far more deadly behaviours, habits or objects, like big screen tv's toppling over and killing children, it matters not that firearms are used in less then 1% of violent crimes according to the RCMP....we must, literally at all costs, pander to our ideological base and work very hard and spend untold billions to "fix" a relatively non-existent problem.  

But it keeps the votes coming in, so it's worth it.  Right?