Stephen Taylor has a little good news;
I’ve just learned that the government will be tabling legislation in the Senate to scrap the long-gun registry. Current legislation is already on the order paper in the House of Commons, introduced by Conservative MP Gerry Breitkreuz as a private members bill (C-301) whereas the legislation in the Senate is a government bill.
Private members bills usually have a tougher time reaching the stage of Royal Assent and thus government legislation will be given a higher priority and indicates that the government is interested in moving to eliminate the long-gun registry as soon as possible.
Update – many of our commentors aren’t so convinced. Nor is the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
“Bill S-5, only removes the requirement to retain registration certificates. It does not shut down the gun registry,” said Tony Bernardo, Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action. “By including a statutory requirement to report all transactions of non-restricted firearms to the Chief Firearms Officer, and by having to receive approval for that transfer, the Bill proposes to morph the registry to a paperless system.” He added, “As the Chief Firearms Officer is a police official in most jurisdictions, the collected information regarding the buyer, seller and the firearm, will simply be retained as ‘police files.’ A registry by any other name…”
As the Chief Firearms Officer is provincial in jurisdiction, a system of sharing transfer information from CFO to CFO must be in place to facilitate inter-provincial transfers. The maintenance of thirteen interconnected registries, combined with the time required to transfer many thousands of firearms per day, will increase the cost of operation of the long gun registry tenfold over the current system.
“Bill S-5 may rid the Conservatives of their Gun Registry commitment but Quebec will maintain it’s beloved registry and Canadian taxpayers will once again be required to fund another giant white elephant disguised as public safety,” stated an unnamed source in the government of Canada.
“Bill S-5 is bad legislation, pure and simple, no matter what branch of government introduces it. It is simply a re-hash of the failed Bill C-24 that died on the Order Paper because of its lack of quality. Any Canadian who cares about where their money is being spent would do well to ignore this legislative disaster and support Bill C-301,” added Bernardo.
More – Brian Lilley has a different take – “the long gun registry is already dead.”
We did not get our gun laws overnight. The liberals and their allies (NDP/Bloc/PC) gave us the law over several decades using the salami technique, i.e. incremental steps that by themselves seem soooo reasonable to the average voter.
The same strategy must be used to reverse these laws. A slow withdraw with each step being soooo reasonable, strangle what is left with too little money and then retreat some more because it’s “not effective” thanks to the funding situation.
If we play our cards right I may be able to legally own an M1917 belt fed with tripod!
I agree with everything you said, Phantom.
I see the number of $2 billion bandied about but wasn’t that the money spend on it several years(and elections) back? What is the latest up to date amount a) spent each and every year to run it, and b) how much is the total since it started? I believe the numbers are inflating as fast as Obama’s ego.
According to the Star, Iggy has vowed to fight the scrapping of the long gun registry. Some of the comments from this article are of the typical, vapid “why would anyone want to scrap the gun registry?” ilk, but there are also some good comments in there as well. Hopefully the anti-registry comments will far outweigh the pro-registry ones.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/612283
A bit of political chess to keep Iggy chasing his tail. Gun owners are priority #100.
This is just another example of how the American, Ignatieff, fails to understand the various regions of the country he now lives in. He has no idea about the West and continues to show it.
I hope he gets his eastern ass kicked, even harder than Dijon had his kicked, out west in the next election. How can any western Canadian take this man seriously.
PiperPaul wrote:
“Now is the time in the comments where we juxtapose (or is this just text replacement?)!
Never gonna Happen. Too many Leftoids have their Kyoto Fantasies = Saving the Planet mantras at stake….if the world spins as it always has after the Radical Green Agenda is scrapped…no Worldwide Catastrophe from Global Warming… it will invalidate the whole fascist agenda to Bring Western Economies To Their Knees by blaming them for Normal, Uncontrollable Weather and Climate Variations…..and they just can’t have that.”
Yep—–same crew—same agenda…..
Ignatieff is not after Western votes; he’s after Quebec votes. He wants to replace the Bloc with Liberals – and if he does that, he can replace Harper with himself.
Call your MP and tell him/her to stop screwing around. Otherwise they assume this kind of thing is perfectly ok.
Long guns need to be free for purchase, no strings attached. Period. I’m willing to live with mandatory education for license to purchase. Beyond that, no.
Over a month ago I sent in my license, now it’s past my birthday and I finally have an unregistered weapon that’s been in the family for decades.
all the protestations at CFRB
They tell me I have to or I’m a bad boy silly me being a law abiding citizen.
And you can bet if I do some other crime it would be added to the pile like conduct unbecoming in the forces.
“Ignatieff to defy PM on gun registry
Toronto Star – 7 hours ago
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff last night pledged to defeat efforts by the Conservative government to scrap the controversial long-gun registry.”
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“One dead, another shot and cop slashed
Toronto Sun – 53 minutes ago
By SUN MEDIA A woman has been killed, a man believed to be her husband was shot and a Toronto Police officer slashed after violence erupted in a Scarborough apartment building this morning”
STOPIGGY.
Iggy loves the west and Liberals have failed the west in the past with the mistakes they made. ROTFLMAO
What a moron, typical Lieberal, says one thing out west and something else in his childhood home farming province of Quebec.
If he votes against this bill, he will lose half of his western seats. He may be right about winning three seats, but he wrong about increasing it by three seats.
“Ignatieff is not after Western votes; he’s after Quebec votes. He wants to replace the Bloc with Liberals – and if he does that, he can replace Harper with himself.”
So in other words Quebec dictates policy for the rest of Canada.
Time for Quebec to GO!
If Iggy votes against -this- bill the extent to which he is full f sh1t will be fully revealed. According to Kate’s update, they aren’t even killing it, just shoving it off on the provinces in more expensive fashion.
Meanwhile, nobody is registering jack because they don’t have to. Which just rounds out the farce.
Iggy, your pink underpants are showing dude.
No senate bill can ever repeal a standing statute….that takes an act of parliament…all the senate can do is rubber stamp some regulatory changes that are done though an “order in council” allowed by the relevant statute.
It was in fact an April fool’s joke on gun owners by the ever liberalizing CPC
I would use caution in jumping to conclusions that Quebec would vote for Ignatieff in order to support a long gun registry. Quebec had a huge number of outdoorsmen and women, I doubt that they would accept long gun registrations. French Canadians are much kike western Canadians, they are not know to welcome government regulations on anything.
Our BIG PROBLEM is the lack of a unified vote west of Winnipeg. We need a more powerful voice in Ottawa. In any event, people drive unregisterd vehicles and get away with it, surely to god they won’t find all twenty million firearms in Canada. We’ll keep on doing what westerners do best, Disobey the Law!!
If I had my way I’d take it many more steps further and pass a law stating that people must own a firearm. I’d be interesting to compare crime rates after a few years of laws like that compared to before. This would not be very popular with folks though, but hey, in the name of science.
It had been backing Bill C-301, introduced by Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville), a rabid opponent of the gun registry.”
This is a quote by the unbiased CBC. A Rabid opponent? I think CBC is an Rabid news organization and needs to be put down, before it infects anyone else.
Posted by: Alan
The description is accurate. In fact, Gary Not Very has made a career out of the gun registry…and done little else. You can add the cost of keeping his sorry arse in the House to the total cost of said registry.
I stand corrected.
Rick:
Compulsory gun ownership works in Switzerland.
Why not Canada?
set you free,
Yes it does work in Switzerland, but there’s too many folks here who would likely have a heart attack just at the thought of doing something similar. I still maintain though that we’d see a dramatic decrease in illegal activity, seeing as how there would potentially be some nasty consquences.
Jack Frost,
It doesn’t matter how we vote out west, or what we say… at the end of the day we don’t have the seats to make any difference, only Ontario and Quebec do. The only way to make our voice count is to dramatically alter the political landscape of the country.
The only real way to dramatically alter the landscape of the country is to have your own separate government out west, effectively leaving confederation, but again, not a popular view among many folks.
Personally I have mixed views on that, but everday I look at the news is one day I look more seriously at the difference between eastern/western valuse and culture. Time will tell.
Slightly off-topic. Today,and I know it is April 2nd,not the 1st,my co-workers and I were informed that as of tomorrow,knives and scissors,will not be allowed in the workplace. This is a gov’t operation. We will be provided with a safety razor thingie.
One word anon:
Quit.
Philboy’s words are goody for “his [Cosgrove’s] sorry arse”.
Cosgrove has filled a vacancy in the PET Cemetery.
Cosgrove shot himself in the foot.
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“Embattled Ontario judge resigns”
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Charter of frights | Inside Story
Justice Paul Cosgrove, an ex-Trudeau government minister and political appointee to the Ontario judiciary, later admitted that he was …
inside.org.au/charter-of-frights/
Phantom,that is not a viable option. If they want to take my scisssors away they will have to pry them out of my cold crafty hands.
I wonder, if the long gun “non restricted” registry is of no value, then what is the value of the restricted and prohibited registry? If people are licenced to own a firearm, why should it matter what kind of firearm they own, and why should it have to be registered?