The Conservative government has created a committee of two cabinet ministers and a backbencher to figure out how best to kill the long-gun registry as soon as possible.
Registry critic Garry Breitkreuz, who is working with Justice Minister Vic Toews and Public Security Minister Stockwell Day, said he has been given wide leeway to deal swiftly with the registry.
"I wouldn't be fighting for what I'm fighting for if I didn't think that would be the case," the Saskatchewan MP said in an interview.
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When the Liberals added the registry to the federal gun control program in 1995, they said it would cost taxpayers no more than $2 million. But the most recent estimates put the figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, bringing the total cost of the gun program to more than $1 billion.
An interesting bit of trivia: Stephen Harper was the only Reform MP who voted in favour of the long gun registry. Now he has the opportunity to make amends for the one vote from his Reform days he'd gladly take back. Such chances are rare in Parliament indeed.
Source: Toronto Star
1 comment:
It's about time. Now maybe we can get some real crime fighting initicitives or whatever done. Like
maybe more police on the streets.
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