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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.

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Alison Crawford, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/05/gun-registry-fees-government.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.

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Long-gun registry still useless

By: Garry Mauser

20/10/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 4

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111The homicide rate had fallen impressively before 2001, but has remained relatively stable since. In 1991, the homicide rate was 2.7 per 100,000; in 1996, the homicide rate was down to 2.1; and by 2000, it had slid to 1.8. By 2005, the rate had risen to 2.0.

The gun registry had no impact on suicide rates either. Canadian suicide rates have declined more slowly after 2001 than before. The national suicide rate was 12.6 per 100,000 in 1991, 13.3 in 1996 and 11.7 in 2000. Since 2001, the suicide rate has declined very little; in 2005, it was down slightly to 11.6.

Parliament may finally be getting courageous enough to ditch the long gun-registry. Candice Hoeppner, MP for Portage-Lisgar, has introduced Bill C-391, which is straightforward -- all it does is drop the requirement that long-guns be registered. Her private member's bill appears to have some support among opposition members. This could mean that this important legislation will be passed, even though we have a minority government in Ottawa.

The present Canadian firearms program focuses exclusively on normal law-abiding people who happen to own firearms, yet it ignores violent criminals. Hunters and farmers aren't the problem, gang bangers are. Registering a firearm doesn't mean it can't be used to cause harm. The current firearms program is a paper exercise that wastes hundreds of millions of dollars each year and doesn't make us any safer.

The gun registry is a bureaucratic nightmare. The RCMP testified that it has too many errors to rely upon it in court. Criminals don't register their guns, hunters do. Police risk their lives if they trust it to identify dangerous people. While some police associations claim the registry works, it should be noted that these organizations are partially funded by groups that advocate greater gun control. Frontline police officers don't trust the registry as an anti-crime tool, and experienced officers refuse to use it.

In Toronto, the police are now confiscating guns from anyone who forgets to renew their firearms licence. How can these individuals become criminals overnight? Because disingenuous government legislation is in place that pretends to make us safer. It can't possibly work, because the long-gun registry is not gun control. Laying a piece of paper beside a gun serves no one. All it does is subject hunters, farmers and sport shooters to endless red tape.

Gun owners apparently do not have privacy rights. The Canadian Firearms Centre has given gun owners' names and addresses to telephone pollsters -- this constitutes one of the worst breaches of privacy in Canadian history. If this list gets into the wrong hands, firearms owners could suddenly be in dire peril at the hands of criminals who now know where they live and which guns they own. The Firearms Centre has potentially furnished the bad guys with a shopping list. Gun owners always feared the registry would be abused, and now we know they were right.

This wrong-headed approach has wasted more than $2 billion dollars since 1995, and continues to cost hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Since most firearms owners have not registered, the overall cost of the registry would increase exponentially if the police insisted on enforcing compliance.

The money squandered on the registry could be better spent on more probation officers, parole officers, police officers, border security and the technology they need to provide Canadians with real anti-crime protection.

Please write your MP to ask him or her to vote in support of Bill C-391.

Gary Mauser is professor emeritus at the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, faculty of business administration, Simon Fraser University.

mauser@sfu.ca

http://www.garymauser.net/

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 20, 2009 A11


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