Posted By: Mira Trapper
What Conservatives can do for YOU. - 10/27/09 01:25 PM
Let me preface this post with a bit of History in Canadian Parliamentary chicanery. We have three major political parties and one separatist party based in Quebec in Canada. The Liberals, Conservatives,National New Democratic party & the Bloc Quebecois. The Conservatives were the only party opposed to long gun registry at it's conception. This is how Long Gun Registry happened and why. This is the piece of the puzzle that is largly ignored by Canadian Press agents today.
A Liberal Think tank during the attempt to prop up their waning popularity were trying to find large blocks of voters that they could depend upon to help the Liberals gain that large lot of voters. They came up with the block known as Urbane Females who hate guns first and foremost and got the added bonus of bringing an end to hunting. Once that block was identified, the Liberal think tank pushed their plan into action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry
The cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry#Bill_C-68
Only the Conservatives opposed the gun registry move and as of the last Federal Election the Conservatives have not won the majority of seats in any major urban center in Canada. Considering the Registry was first introduced in 1993 the Conservatives had a very rough ride but it looks like they have finally proven the Long Gun Registry to be a farce and waste of money whose only benefactors were Liberal Politicians that maintained their Urban core . Hats off to the Canadian Conservatives.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/08/gun-registry.html
Ottawa refunded nearly $21 million to long-gun owners for their licensing fees in 2006 following the Conservative government's decision to waive registration for the weapons, according to a report released Tuesday.
Back in May 2006, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced several major changes to the controversial gun registry brought in by the previous Liberals that effectively gutted the program.
Among the changes was a two-year waiver of fees for the renewal or upgrade of firearms licences for individuals. Licence holders who had already paid a fee to renew their licence were issued a refund.
Tuesday's report by the commissioner of firearms, the first since the 2006 changes to the gun registry, says that 350,000 people were repaid that year.
The report also states that police have used the gun registry more than 2.3 million times while investigating crimes and complaints in 2006, or nearly 6,500 times a day.
The 53 per cent increase from the previous year was attributed to several police forces making policy decisions to increase use of the gun registry.
Canada's largest police force, the Toronto Police Service, set up an interface system so that certain queries of a person or address automatically resulted in a query of the gun registry, the report says.
Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh said the high usage of the registry is enough to justify keeping the system around.
"This government will tell you, 'Here and there it may work, but usually it doesn't work.' But the fact is that the consistent use by the police forces of this registry shows that it does work, that it is useful, that it should be there," said Dosanjh.
As for the registry's future, the Conservatives have vowed to kill the long-gun registry and re-introduced a bill last fall to repeal the requirement for long-gun owners to register their weapons.
The Conservatives first introduced a bill to amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act in June 2006 so that owners of non-restricted rifles and shotguns will not have to register their weapons. But the bill died when the Parliamentary session ended in the fall.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry. It was supposed to cost $2 million when the Liberal government introduced it in 1995, but wound up costing roughly $1 billion.
A Liberal Think tank during the attempt to prop up their waning popularity were trying to find large blocks of voters that they could depend upon to help the Liberals gain that large lot of voters. They came up with the block known as Urbane Females who hate guns first and foremost and got the added bonus of bringing an end to hunting. Once that block was identified, the Liberal think tank pushed their plan into action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry
The cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry#Bill_C-68
Only the Conservatives opposed the gun registry move and as of the last Federal Election the Conservatives have not won the majority of seats in any major urban center in Canada. Considering the Registry was first introduced in 1993 the Conservatives had a very rough ride but it looks like they have finally proven the Long Gun Registry to be a farce and waste of money whose only benefactors were Liberal Politicians that maintained their Urban core . Hats off to the Canadian Conservatives.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/08/gun-registry.html
Ottawa refunded nearly $21 million to long-gun owners for their licensing fees in 2006 following the Conservative government's decision to waive registration for the weapons, according to a report released Tuesday.
Back in May 2006, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced several major changes to the controversial gun registry brought in by the previous Liberals that effectively gutted the program.
Among the changes was a two-year waiver of fees for the renewal or upgrade of firearms licences for individuals. Licence holders who had already paid a fee to renew their licence were issued a refund.
Tuesday's report by the commissioner of firearms, the first since the 2006 changes to the gun registry, says that 350,000 people were repaid that year.
The report also states that police have used the gun registry more than 2.3 million times while investigating crimes and complaints in 2006, or nearly 6,500 times a day.
The 53 per cent increase from the previous year was attributed to several police forces making policy decisions to increase use of the gun registry.
Canada's largest police force, the Toronto Police Service, set up an interface system so that certain queries of a person or address automatically resulted in a query of the gun registry, the report says.
Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh said the high usage of the registry is enough to justify keeping the system around.
"This government will tell you, 'Here and there it may work, but usually it doesn't work.' But the fact is that the consistent use by the police forces of this registry shows that it does work, that it is useful, that it should be there," said Dosanjh.
As for the registry's future, the Conservatives have vowed to kill the long-gun registry and re-introduced a bill last fall to repeal the requirement for long-gun owners to register their weapons.
The Conservatives first introduced a bill to amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act in June 2006 so that owners of non-restricted rifles and shotguns will not have to register their weapons. But the bill died when the Parliamentary session ended in the fall.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry. It was supposed to cost $2 million when the Liberal government introduced it in 1995, but wound up costing roughly $1 billion.