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Liberal Thinking: Death or injury to those who can't use martial arts or other non-lethal means of self-defense-- The young, the old, the infirm, the disabled, the weak, the small, and the pregnant--are simply the necessary sacrifice we must make to criminals, to avoid the risks of letting honest, law abiding people be armed.
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Major crime spending expected in federal budget
The election platform called for hiring 1,000 new RCMP officers with
money saved from the gun registry, which currently costs about $80
million annually in federal money. Jay Hill, a Conservative MP
and the party's whip, told the Prince George Free Press this week that
reallocating money from the gun registry to the RCMP is a major
priority in next week's budget. The Conservatives have not yet
scrapped the controversial registry as promised, acknowledging that its
elimination will require a vote in the minority Parliament.(The
first step in the registries starvation. At the end of March, the
Harper government quietly eliminated wasteful funding of Liberal 'pet
project' lobby groups. Including one for "gun control". I would assume
that Wendy's cash pipeline has now been turned off)Reallocating money from gun registry to RCMP a major priority, MP says Kill this registry! WINNIPEG -- If you want the federal government to shut down one of the worst money pits in Canadian political history - the Liberal's failed long-gun registry - call an NDP MP. The federal Conservatives are planning to table legislation that would repeal the gun registry, bringing an end to a financial boondoggle that's cost Canadians $2 billion. But in order to get the bill through, a majority of Canada's 29 NDP MPs will have to support it, or the proposed legislation will die on the order paper and taxpayers will continue to be saddled with a multibillion-dollar calamity. "We're looking for support from various members, Liberal and NDP primarily," Justice Minister Vic Toews told Sun Media this week. "I think the NDP is pretty split on this." Unlike some registration schemes that could be changed or eliminated through cabinet order, the long-gun registry can only be repealed through legislation, said Toews. Most of the legal detail of the registry is set out in the Firearms Act, said Toews, which means the government has no choice but to table legislation in Parliament in order to wind it down. "It will involve amendments to both the Firearms Act and the Criminal Code," said Toews.And that means the minority Conservative government, which has 125 seats in the House of Commons, will need the support of 30 MPs from the Opposition benches to pass the bill. Most of the Opposition support to repeal the registry is expected to come from rural NDP MPs. But the Tories will likely need a few Liberals, too, to get the bill through. Unlike other bills the government is expected to table, the gun registry will probably be a free vote for all parties. Which means it will be up to individual MPs to decide if they want to scrap the registry. "There are some Liberals I've been having discussions with - guys I know who are opposed to the registry and I'm just confirming that they are still opposed and will vote to repeal it," said Toews. Trouble is, many Opposition MPs are keeping their cards close to their vest on the gun registry. "I think this is the kind of situation where we won't know until we table the bill," said Toews. The good news for opponents of the registry is that Auditor General Sheila Fraser is expected to release more damning findings on the gun registry within a month. Word is that Fraser will confirm that the cost of the registry is even higher than originally thought, which should put the final nail in the gun registry coffin. It's really up to Canadians now to lobby their MPs to get rid of this thing. MPs don't ignore public opinion, especially when it's coming from their own constituents. Call your MP, write them, e-mail them - start a petition in your riding. At $2 billion and counting, we can't afford not to.(The A.G. 'also' has a separate report to present about the gun registry, regarding questionable use of public money.. see the link below.. The thing that irks a lot of gun owners, is the government could pass a 'Order in Council' to put a hold on all persecution of law abiding gun owners for whether it be licensing, or registration. If you 'have' to renew your licence right now, do it with a credit card. You can always do a charge back when the A.G.'s shit hits the fan and the law is scrapped.) Variety Store Owners Are fed up with being TARGETS They’re fed up. Fed up with the violence, fed up with the danger, fed up with the crippling tax hikes. More than 1,000 convenience store owners from all over Ontario descended on Queen’s Park Tuesday to protest a number of issues, including crime, cigarette taxes and the basic impression that the provincial Liberals simply don’t care about them. “My worker who works at night, he’s gotten stabbed two or three times,” said one concerned proprietor. Stories like that one are becoming all too common. Thieves rushing store clerks, taking cash, merchandise and worst of all, leaving employees, beaten or worse. “We have been robbed about six times in the last two or three years,” said another store owner. Security features like surveillance systems that cost several thousand dollars have become common place, but owners and clerks alike say they hardly deter crime, but merely capture it.(As far as I understand, there is no law that requires a firearm to be in storage 24 hrs. a day, and you can take a firearm out of storage for any purpose what-so-ever. It can also be loaded, is a place where it would be lawful to discharge if required. A short barrelled shotgun with-in reach of a store owner, would be a powerful deterrent. There is already case law regarding a druggist in Northbay(?) that was charged with unsafe storage when the police found a loaded shotgun in his back room. His defence, and it was accepted by the courts, was that the shotgun was 'not' in storage, at the time and needed the firearm for self defence against junkies after drugs. If I was running that type of store, and had been stabbed in the past, I certainly would be armed. Why do you have to die, just so things 'look' politically correct.. If your very life is being threatened, you have the absolute RIGHT to prevent your death in anyway required. A short barrelled shotgun right at hand is the safest way) Auditor General Prepairing Gun Registry 'bombshell' OTTAWA -- A potentially explosive audit report could put "the nail in the coffin" of the controversial gun registry, according to a Conservative MP. Auditor General Sheila Fraser is slated to release a damning audit on the Canada Firearms Program next month -- and has cryptically hinted at a major finding. "In carrying out our audit of the Canada Firearms Centre, we noted a matter with significant implications for Parliament's control of public spending," she states after a brief summary of eight chapters in her report. Tory MP Garry Breitkreuz, a longtime critic of the gun registry, believes the AG will expose more numbers fudged by the former Liberal government. He said Fraser could blow the lid off murky enforcement costs and a shadowy $273-million computer contract he uncovered while in Opposition. "She could be highlighting the fact that contracts were given out and there's not a proper paper trail," he said. "That's a damning indictment of how a government does business if there's no paper trail and you're shovelling millions of dollars out the door." Breitkreuz has filed about 550 access-to-information requests on the gun registry, but still doesn't know the true costs of the program. He predicts the AG's report will be a "significant event that will finally "put the nail in the coffin" of the registry. The Conservative government has pledged to abolish the "boondoggle" through a vote in Parliament, but a majority of Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois MPs threaten to block it. Julie Hebert, Fraser's spokeswoman, would not elaborate on findings before the report is tabled May 16, but confirmed a supplementary report to the main gun registry audit was required. "It's another matter that came out while we were doing the follow-up audit of the Canada Firearms Centre," she said. "We came across something else that we thought we should make Parliament aware of, that's why it's in a separate report." (Virtually everyone opposed to this farce, KNOWS the liberals had been stealing from the taxpayer to fund this fiasco, but the utter depth and corruption of this deception is about to be released. Will any liberals be going to jail? Not likely, they will point lots of fingers at lots of bureaucrats, and it's the bureaucrats that will be going to jail..maybe.. Perhaps NOW is the time for those bureaucrats that 'know things' come forward, and strike a plea bargain to save their own skins. Do you duty, send a liberal to jail!) Miramichi gun registry will preserve 50 jobs At least 50 jobs in Miramichi are safe because the hand-gun registry will remain though the long-gun registry will be shut down by the federal government. Stockwell Day, minister of public safety, said this week that the hand-gun registry will continue to operate. Jeannie Baldwin, an official with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said it's not good news that so many people will lose their jobs. "I don't believe it's good news for anyone, and it's surely not good news for all Canadians," said Baldwin. "Close to 150 individuals that will be affected by [the closure]." A spokesperson for Day said there is no time frame in place for closing the long-gun registry. She said the government is waiting for the auditor general's report, which will be released in early May. A decision will be made after reviewing that report, which will detail how much it costs the government to run the Canadian Firearms Centre.(There is no real reason for keeping the handgun registry either! The old one sucked up cash for over 60 years without a single benefit to Canadians. Every argument for scrapping the long gun registry can also be used as evidence to scrap the handgun registry. BOTH are nothing but feel good worthless make work endeavours than have never shown to be of any deterrence to criminals what-so-ever! AND what's with Day saying all currently prohibited firearms will remain prohibited? Is he 'still' planning to confiscate millions of short barrelled firearms from law abiding citizens who have had them for years, and may want to pass them down as heirlooms? If that's the case, their as devious as the liberals! I, as well as thousands and thousands of other firearm owners will NOT be renewing memberships, or making contributions to the CPC until Stockwell Day's 'other' shoe drops and we see just 'where' he is headed.) Cotler Says Gun Registry Vow A Dud! The Conservative government can't deliver on its promise to abolish the gun registry because a majority of MPs oppose the plan, according to Liberal public safety critic Irwin Cotler. Cancelling the much-maligned program didn't get a mention in Tuesday's throne speech as the long-time pledge appeared to take a back seat on the government agenda. It remained a hot topic in and outside the House of Commons yesterday. Interim Liberal leader Bill Graham, noting front line cops see the registry as a valuable tool, said his party will "strenuously oppose" any move to abolish it. Cotler, a former justice minister, said the Tories shouldn't expect much support from the NDP or Bloc Quebecois either. "We realize that cost overruns have to be controlled," he said. "I still think there's a majority support in the Commons for that proposition and the principle that the gun registry saves lives. It should be administered properly, but it should not be scrapped." Even if an amendment does squeak through the House, it will likely be doomed in the Liberal-dominated Senate, Cotler predicted. (There is so much false political rhetoric and crap in Cotler's statements, most 'thinking' people would hardly know where to begin! 2B$ to register less than one third of the 'sporting' firearms in the country, most unverified! "Cost over runs" is a VAST understatement. Imagine buying a car, and the dealer telling you the payments would be 300.00 a month, and maintenance about 200 a year. After delivery, you find the payments are 'really' 3,000,000.00 a month, and annual maintenance is 200,000.00 ..Do you think you would keep the car? Even if "the liberal dominated senate" holds it up, the Tories will kill it through eliminating regulations that were never passed through parliament by the liberals anyway. They would have a DUTY to the Canadian public, of which the majority are finally seeing through this liberal farce, and are now calling for it's cancellation.. The Auditor Generals report, will drive the last nail into the coffin..People are no longer amused by "Stupid Liberal Tricks"!) N.B. Premier says Scrap the Registry, but Protect the Jobs FREDERICTON (CP) - Premier Bernard Lord says he supports the elimination of Canada's gun registry, but he wants Ottawa to replace any jobs lost as a result of closing the firearms centre in Miramichi, N.B. Lord says he will send a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper emphasizing the importance of finding new jobs for about 200 gun registry employees in Miramichi. Harper is promising to scrap the costly registry and redirect the money towards beefing up police forces. Lord says he has always opposed the registry, but acknowledges the 200 jobs at the Canadian Firearms Centre in Miramichi City are important to the local economy. When originally created, the federal Liberal government estimated the cost to taxpayers would be just $2 million, but it ballooned to $1 billion. Over 7 million long guns have been registered since the registry opened. (No one want's to see anyone out of work! The folks that work at the firearms registry could be employed very usefully in the new Firearms Prohibition Registry. But is IS nice to see that the MP of the very riding it's in also thinks it should be scrapped.) Gun Registry Not Supported By ALL Cops! To say front line officers support the long-gun registry is simply wrong. Some do and some don't. Some police associations have endorsed it, others have officially opposed it. It is, at best, a divisive issue among police officers. Even police chiefs aren't united on it. Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino broke ranks with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police -- who support the long-gun registry -- saying it should be scrapped. He recognizes that forcing law-abiding Canadians to register their rifles does nothing to reduce gun crimes and that the money would be better spent on front line police resources. Most provinces have expressed their opposition to the gun registry, too. Provinces like Manitoba have been opposed to it from the very beginning. The truth is, the federal Conservatives have plenty of support to scrap this two-billion-dollar boondoggle that's been sucking taxpayers dry for 10 years, regardless of what the CPPA says. And it's time to kill this misguided, bureaucratic nightmare once and for all. (If you were to poll all police officers, you would probably find that the officers with the most firearm experience, are the ones that think the registry should be scrapped. The ones that are in favour of this farce are the officers that simply wear a firearm because it's part of the uniform, To them, it's simply a necessary 'evil' decoration that is worn with the uniform and fired every so often in qualifications, to keep their job. Most couldn't hit the side of a barn. But, the cops that DO use their firearms in competitions, are usually pretty damn good, and I have never met one yet that thinks the firearms farce is a good idea, and a useful tool. The ONLY firearms tool that comes to mind, is Allen Rock!) Plan to kill gun registry poised for showdown OTTAWA - The federal gun registry has been “a dismal failure” that has done nothing to reduce gun violence, Justice Minister Vic Toews said Monday, and the Conservatives will move to bring in legislation to abolish it. His comments come after months of speculation the Conservatives were planning to avoid a vote in the Commons by dismantling the registry through regulations rather than amend the law. Regulatory changes do not require Parliamentary support. Toews predicted the Conservatives will secure the support they need to end the registry, which required shotgun and rifle owners to register their weapons “I think we can fashion a working majority in order to repeal the gun registry,” Toews told reporters. But the opposition parties made it clear it will be a close vote if a bill reaches the House of Commons floor. The gun registry set up in 1995 has been criticized for cost overruns pegged at more than $1 billion. Some reports says the cost could hit $2 billion. The Liberal government had originally estimated its cost at $2 million. Tony Cannavino, the president of the Canadian Professional Police Association, said Monday he will push the opposition parties to reject eliminating the registry.(Not only is this farce a dismal failure as far as cost/benifit is concerned, it does not meet even one of the criteria the Police Association set for it in the first place to gain their support.. The only reason they are still saying it's a "useful tool" is that they would now look pretty stupid for supporting it in the first place. It all about 'optics' and politics. It has NOTHING to do with safety. If the police had to pay for it with-in their own budgets, it would have been scrapped years ago. The Auditor Generals Report is due soon. THAT, will be the last nail in the coffin for this shambles of a bureaucratic nightmare. Rumour is the report will peg this farce at closer to 3 Billion dollars..This is an absolutely incredible amount of money to waste on something as stupid as a duck hunter registry! If the vote is after the report, it will be political suicide for anyone to vote for maintaining this less than useless farce.. They can scream and bluster all they want, when the report comes out, they will shut the fuck up, and do what's right, or face the wrath of the voters next time around.. ) Harper's get-tough speech draws warm reception from police association Prime Minister Stephen Harper received enthusiastic applause from the nation's police on Monday as he reiterated his government's promise to toughen the federal justice system. "It's quite remarkable the prime minister has found the time for us," said association president Tony Cannavino, who noted that it was the first time a PM had ever addressed a conference of the police association. Harper received sustained applause when he spoke of his government's intention to repeal the so-called faint hope clause – a section of the Criminal Code that allows a criminal serving a life sentence to apply for early parole. "I thought we might find a responsive audience here," the PM quipped. Both Harper, and Justice Minister Vic Toews, who also addressed the gathering, promised to find a way to put more officers on the street. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will find a way to put more police on the street. Harper said his government will fund the initiative through cost-sharing programs with municipalities and savings from scrapping the federal gun registry. (OK! Now that Parliaments back.. We'll see how long it actually takes to get rid of the gun registry and repeal C-68 like he promised) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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